The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Equipment used to record ground and air temperatures at a meteorological field trial site. On the posts in the background are anometers to record wind speed. On top are wind vanes for measuring wind direction. This trial was carried out by the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Experimental Section, later known as the 1st Field Trials Company.
Volunteers wearing protective clothing are preparing to place Porton bubbler measuring equipment in allocated positions on North Brook Island prior to a mustard gas trial. The most extensive test tria
Informal portrait of two members of the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Experimental Section asleep on a beach. Both are wearing protective clothing to enable them to enter the site of a pois
A volunteer in full protective clothing attaching equipment to the branches in a tree. It is most probably a bubbler site, one of many used for measuring the concentration of mustard gas levels on Nor
Blistered burns around the left elbow of a volunteer who participated in a chemical trial undertaken by the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Experimental Section, later known as the 1st Field
Blistered burns on the arms and hands of a volunteer who participated in a chemical trial undertaken by the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Experimental Section, later known as the 1st Field
Informal portrait of V387912 Sergeant (Sgt) Olive Lucas, Australian Womens Army Service, wearing "Double layer impregnated clothing at gas trial, minus head gear, respirator and impregnated gloves" (A
