The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Wooden model of a wrecked two storey bungalow painted red with a blue metal roof, mounted on a plain green painted base. The roof is attached with nails. The front section of the house has been modelled exposed as if by bomb damage, giving a stepped effect to the sides of the house that are missing. The inside of the house is divided into five sections with two rooms on each floor plus an attic, with a dividing wall down the centre of the house. Each of the rooms includes a blue door and a window and the interior is painted cream. Externally there are ten windows painted in blue with a black outline and a blue back door. Two pieces are missing from the front of the house (probably wreckage), although their bases are still extant.
Collection of twelve (12) painted wooden and metal buildings representing houses, churches and civic buildings, some with bomb damage. They are meant to represent the section of the northern Sydney suburb of Wahroonga for which Dr William Read was the responsible warden and were regularly used for weekly Air Raid Precaution (ARP) training and large scale exercise planning sessions at his home at Cleveland St, Wahroonga. A keen carpenter, Dr Read created the buildings and originally based them on a board, painted to represent the streets in his suburb, and his daughter states "He used these to play 'war games' with his fellow wardens and had them set up on the verandah of his home." Dr Read had served in Egypt at No 2 General Hospital with the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) during the First World War, to the extent of moving his wife and three children to Cairo to be close to him. Upon his return to Australia, he ran the Hospital at Georges Heights which had been set up to receive the Gallipoli wounded.
Wooden model of a church building painted red/brown. The building is designed to "collapse" into six parts that include the main building, a tower, a portico and three smaller wings. There are three w
Wooden model of a plain single storey house with one half being a pitched roof and the other half a flat roof both painted red and made of wood. The house is painted cream with 8 windows and two doors
Model of a gabled façade with a broken rear of the building. The front of the building has two windows, one on either side of the door. They have been painted in yellow with a black outline. The b
Wooden model of a church which is designed to hinge into an "exploded" building. The four parts of this building include the back wall to which is nailed the red tin roof and three hinges (one is miss
Wooden model homestead painted yellow with a red roof, and incorporating eleven sets of windows and two doors which have been painted black. There is a line 6mm along the bottom edge of the house. The
Wooden model of a rectangular façade that is essentially a block of wood, painted red with two yellow windows either side of the door. The roof is missing. Collection of twelve (12) painted wooden a
Wooden model of a two storey cream house with a high pitched roof. The house has a lean-to at the front of the house which includes the two doors for the house. There are nine windows painted with blu
Wooden model of a small two storey house with a red gabled roof. The roof has been glued to the top of the house and has a dormer window which protrudes above the front doorway; the dormer window abov
Wooden model of a town hall tower, painted red and constructed from four sections in a stepped manner. Painted onto each side of the two top sections are long rectangular windows in white with a black
Wooden model of a two storey house, nailed together and painted cream. The tin roof is painted red and is nailed to the house. There is a blue line painted 35mm from the bottom of the house. There are
Wooden model two story suburban house, nailed together and painted red with a light blue roof. The model is in two parts, consisting of the house and the veranda. The blue, flat-roofed veranda has fou
Model wooden two storey suburban redbrick bungalow with side wings painted red with a blue roof. The main roof is made of metal, nailed to the house, while the two side wing roofs are wooden. A blue
Portrait of Dr William H Read wearing the sola topee hat that had been issued to him when he served with the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) during the First World War. Dr Read is preparing to tr
Model wooden two storey suburban redbrick bungalow with side wings painted red with a blue roof. The main roof is made of metal, nailed to the house, while the two side wing roofs are wooden. A blue
Wooden model of a small two storey house with a red gabled roof. The roof has been glued to the top of the house and has a dormer window which protrudes above the front doorway; the dormer window abov
Wooden model two story suburban house, nailed together and painted red with a light blue roof. The model is in two parts, consisting of the house and the veranda. The blue, flat-roofed veranda has fou
Wooden model homestead painted yellow with a red roof, and incorporating eleven sets of windows and two doors which have been painted black. There is a line 6mm along the bottom edge of the house. The
Wooden model of a two storey house, nailed together and painted cream. The tin roof is painted red and is nailed to the house. There is a blue line painted 35mm from the bottom of the house. There are
Wooden model of a rectangular façade that is essentially a block of wood, painted red with two yellow windows either side of the door. The roof is missing. Collection of twelve (12) painted wooden a
