The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A heavy cloud of gas amongst the trees in the savannah during a chemical field trial by the 1st Field Trials Company. The Proserpine Chemical Warfare Station was set up to mainly test British chemical warfare weapons. It was abandoned at the end of the war.
Informal group portrait of United Kingdom (UK) meteorologists from Porton Down Chemical Defence Board, now part of the Meteorology Section of the 1st Field Trials Company, standing in the barracks ar
Smoke billows from a fire which is burning chemical warfare stocks in the bush and savannah. Testing of chemical warfare gasses was done by the 1st Field Trials Company, Royal Australian Engineers (RA
Atmospheric gas concentrations being tested in a gas measurement field trial. These bubblers which are used to disperse chemicals are filled with acetic acid. Cylinders are used to draw air through th
Some of the buildings of the Chemical Warfare Unit site at Proserpine, Qld. The purpose built chemical warfare testing station of the 1st Field Trials Company, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE) was for
An aerial view of the Chemical Warfare Unit site at Proserpine, Qld. The purpose built chemical warfare testing station of the 1st Field Trials Company, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE) was formally
A line of injectors, used to measure gas, set up on the beach on North Brook Island, Qld. The injectors were taken to specific test locations before the island was bombed with chemical gas, mainly mus
