The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Captain Albert Jacka VC (front holding map), 14th Battalion, comparing his maps with the prepared model of the Messines area, over which his company was to advance on the following day, 7 June 1917, in the battle of Messines. This contour map of the battlefield was constructed near Petit Pont, and stands where erected from which it could be studied to advantage, in order that troops taking part would fully understand their course of action in the great undertaking.
Soldiers studying the large contour map specially constructed between Petit Pont and Nieppe, constructed to give the troops a knowledge of the Messines battlefield, in preparation for the battle which
Unidentified members of the 4th Division gathered on raised platforms to study the large contour map of the Messines battlefield which was constructed near Petit Pont. The map gave the troops knowled
Australians of the 13th Brigade studying the large contour map near Petit Pont, Belgium, which was specially made to give the troops a knowledge of the Messines battlefield. The operation, which opene
Petit Pont, Belgium. 25 June 1917. The four Vickers machine guns of No. 1 Section, 4th Australian Machine Gun Company engaged in gun practice in old trenches at Petit Pont. The Company was resting and
Petit Pont, Belgium. Australians in a motor lorry watching German shells bursting on Hill 63 during the battle of Messines.
A scene on the road near Petit Pont behind Hill 63, during the battle of Messines, on 7June 1917. Soldiers resting by the wayside, watch the smoke of a burning dump just previously ignited by German s
