[Illustration: 2. My Home with a Dixie.] [Illustration: Australians studying the large Contour Map which was made for the Troops to give them a good knowledge of the country around Messines over which they had to attack.] [Illustration: A Wagon rushing a road during the German shelling of our Batteries before Messines.] [Illustration: A German Shell bursting during the Messines Battle.] [Illustration: All that is left of the German Front Line at Messines.] [Illustration: A German Shell-burst during the Battle of Messines.] [Illustration: Battle of Messines: A Lorry-load of Australians watching a Burning Dump which had been hit by the German Shelling.] [Illustration: The Ridge at Messines: Scene of the Attack on June 7, 1917.] [Illustration: All that is left of Messines.] [Illustration: A German Concrete and Steel Blockhouse of the type which Australians first met at Messines.] [Illustration: A German Concrete Blockhouse at Messines. Showing bits of the old "camouflage" for screening it on top, and the sockets for machine-gun ammunition let into the rear face of it.] [Illustration: A German "Pill-Box" Shelter at Messines.] [Illustration: Messines: Wounded Coming Back during the Fight.] [Illustration: Maj.-Gen. W. Holmes, C.M.G., D.S.O., Killed near Messines shortly after the Battle.] [Illustration: An Australian Heavy Howitzer in Action.] [Illustration: Coming out of the Line for a Rest.] [Illustration: Behind the Lines: H.M. The King, with Gen. Birdwood leaving an Australian Sports Ground.] [Illustration: Fatigue Work somewhere on the Somme Front.] [Illustration: Extract from Intelligence Report: "Yesterday two of our pigeons failed to return."] [Illustration: Divisional Baths. Billjim: "'Ow do yer git into the bloomin' bath, digger?" Orderly (thoughtfully): "Do yer see that tap? Well, crawl up through it."] [Illustration: Some Duds. 1. Fritz: "Vill ve not another strategic retreat make when I haf nice fixed up my dug-out?" 2. Christmas Cheer--A Dud. 3. Après la Guerre--Another Dud.] [Illustration: "Somebody's Darling."] [Illustration: My God!] [Illustration: A Brigade A.F.A. out for a Brief Rest after many months in the Firing Line.] [Illustration: Part of an old big Crater at Hill 60, near Ypres.] [Illustration: Beginning of the Battle beyond Ypres: A Howitzer in Action.] [Illustration: A Siege Battery in Action: Firing a Howitzer.] [Illustration: How the Guns are Worked in Gas.] [Illustration: A Scene on a Road near Ypres.] [Illustration: Ruins of the Cloth Hall, Ypres.] [Illustration: Shell Bursting amid the Ruins of Ypres.] [Illustration: Ruins at Ypres.] [Illustration: Ruins at Ypres.] [Illustration: A Big Crater. This was 75 yards in circumference.] [Illustration: After the Battle of Menin Road. Wounded waiting to be taken to the dressing-station.] [Illustration: Clearing the Roadway.] THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND. (With apologies to Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather.)