The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Members of the 2/6th Australian Independent Company alighting from a 5th US Army Air Force (USAAF) C-47-DL transport plane ("Maxine" Serial Number 41-18585) on a rough runway on the shores of Collingwood Bay, as a preliminary move in the allied coastal advance on Buna. Identified third from right: Trooper J. Lucas, Intelligence Section, 2/6th Australian Independent Company. The bareheaded officer in the left foreground is Lieutenant P.S. Teesdale-Smith, intelligence officer, 2/10th Battalion whose task it was to clear each plane load of troops away from the runway as soon as possible in order to permit the next plane to come in and land. A minimum of movement was desirable as a Japanese air attack was expected. On 16th October 1942, weeks after this image was taken, the aircraft “Maxine” crashed whilst delivering supplies to Australian Army soldiers on the Kokoda Trail with the loss of all crew. In the War Graves Maintenance Details Unit War Diary for New Guinea [September 1943 - November 1944], it was noted that Cpl Hince of the Aust War Graves Maintenance Details Unit visited the scene of the crash in March 1944 and located two American and two Australian bodies. The Australian bodies were removed to Bomana War Cemetery in Port Moresby and identified as N38353 Pte Keith Thomas Sullivan, and N21922 Pte Joseph Thomas Waters, both of the 53rd Australian Infantry Battalion.
Papuan natives assisting men of the 2/6th Australian Independent Company to unload their equipment from the 5th US Army Air Force (USAAF) C-47-DL transport plane ("Maxine" Serial Number 41-18585) in w
Kinsayok, Thailand. 20 October 1945. Three of the Japanese maintenance party moving past Australian graves in one of the three cemeteries at Kinsayok on the Burma-Thailand railway, approximately 170 k
Tawiri, Laha, Ambon. 7 December 1945. A Japanese working party, under supervision of an Australian War Graves Maintenance Unit, recovering the remains of Australian and Dutch servicemen executed by th
Members of the Graves Registration Detachment, Australian section, of the Imperial War Graves unit loading bodies from a mass grave to be put in single graves. The bodies are wrapped in groundsheets w
Kanchanaburi, Thailand. c. 25 December 1945. Formal portrait of four Australian and British members of the War Graves Commission survey party. Left to right: Captain Fontes (British Army ?), Intellige
Marble slabs, which were designed to cover the graves of three unknown soldiers from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, at the base of the memorial to honour those who died in Greece during World War
