The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Unidentified members of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company camouflaging a machine gun position at the base of a bridge at Pont de Nieppe. The two soldiers underneath the centre arch are laying demolition charges so that the bridge can be blown up if necessary. This work was part of the defensive preparations that later helped retard the German advance in Flanders in April 1918.
Members of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company preparing a machine gun emplacement at the Pont de Nieppe (Nieppe Bridge), near Armentieres. The bridge was also mined for blowing up in case of necess
A British Vickers machine gun in position behind the wingwall of the bridge over the River Lys at Pont de Nieppe, on the Nieppe-Armentieres Road in Northern France. This position was connected by tunn
The village of Pont de Nieppe, looking over the bridge over the River Lys.
The 4th Australian Machine Gun Company parade on a Sunday morning at Pont de Nieppe after an overnight bivouac in the open while en route from Neuf Berquin (French Flanders) to Neuve Eglise (Belgian F
Demolition charges placed in position by the 12th Field Company of Australian Engineers on a bridge over the Somme, at Daours.
Canal bridge in Pont-de-Nieppe, France. An image from the collection of 1010 Sergeant (Sgt) George Edgar Watkins DCM. Sgt Watkins, a painter from Blackburn, Victoria, enlisted on 10 February 1916. H
