The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two unidentified butchers of the 3rd Field Butchery, Australian Arm Service Corps, split a carcase in two. The twelve butchers of the unit kill approximately 140 beasts per week at Mount Bundy Station, around 3 miles from the town of Adelaide River. The unit employs a group of local Aboriginal people to clean and salt the skins for preservation.
VX70281 Private Ronald Alexander Houghton is weighing a carcase before it is loaded on to a truck. A record is kept of all meat slaughtered by 3rd Field Butchery, Australian Army Service Corps, before
ADELAIDE RIVER, N.T. AUSTRALIA. 1942-10-16. BUTCHERS AT 3RD FIELD BUTCHERY, AUSTRALIAN ARMY SERVICE CORPS, HOISTING THE CARCASE OF A BULLOCK PRIOR TO SPLITTING IT DOWN THE CENTRE. APPROXIMATELY 140 BE
ADELAIDE RIVER, N.T. AUSTRALIA. 1942-10-16. BUTCHERS AT 3RD FIELD BUTCHERY, AUSTRALIAN ARMY SERVICE CORPS, SKINNING A BEAST JUST AFTER IT HAD BEEN KILLED, 12 BUTCHERS, KILLING ABOUT 140 BEASTS A WEEK,
NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA. 1942-10. GENERAL SCENE AT THE ABATTOIR OF 3 AUSTRALIAN FIELD BUTCHERING COMPANY, A.I.F., DURING SKINNING OPERATIONS. 12 BUTCHERS OF THE COMPANY KILL APPROXIMATELY 140 BE
A group of locally engaged Aboriginal men dress cattle hides with salt after a kill. The men are employed by the 3rd Australian Field Butchering Company near Adelaide River to skin and salt meat.
General Sir Thomas Blamey, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, ED (VX1), Commander‑in‑Chief of Allied Land Forces in the South West Pacific Area, and his official party walk through an Aboriginal settlement at Adelai
