The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A group on an Infantry Tank Mark II Matilda II of the 2nd Army Tank Battalion, listening to an explanation of the method of operation of smoke shell dischargers, fitted to, and operated from the tank. Lieutenant Kennedy, Technical Officer, 1st Australian Army (1); Major Freddie Gorrill, Royal Army Medical Corps, physiologist Land Headquarters (2); VX28211 Captain Peter James Parsons, Australian Army Medical Corps, physiologist Land Headquarters (3); VX14147 Captain James Clulow McAllester, Commanding Officer, 1st Australian Mobile Anti Gas Laboratory (4); Lieutenant Rickard, 100 New South Wales Lines of Communication Area (5); Captain T.K. Fisher, General Staff Officer Grade III (Chemical Warfare) Land Headquarters (6); VX3361 Captain J. McNally, General Staff Officer Grade III (Chemical Warfare) 2nd Australian Army (7); VX15247 Captain Alan Mcfarlane, Chemical Warfare Equipment Land Headquarters (8); Flying Officer Mckenzie Officer Commanding 5th Australian Mobile Meteorological Flight (9).
Pair of embroided colour patches of the 2nd Australian Tank Battalion featuring a centrally placed left facing white coloured rhomboidal shaped tank motif outlined in black superimposed over a yellow
Close up of an American type pistol for firing smokescreen shells from the inside of an Infantry Tank Mark II Matilda II is held by VX3361 captain J. McNally, General Staff Officer Grade III (Chemical
SINGLETON, NSW, AUSTRALIA, 1943-01. AN OFFICER SEATED ON TOP OF A GENERAL GRANT M3 MEDIUM TANK EXPLAINING THE METHOD OF OPERATING AN AMERICAN TYPE PISTOL FOR FIRING SMOKE-SCREEN SHELLS FROM THE INSIDE
Innisfail, QLD, c. 1943-12. Members of the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Experimental Section, later to be known as the 1st Field Trials Company, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), in conver
Hinchinbrook Island, QLD, c. 1944-03. Members of the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Experimental Section lined up on parade on a beach. The group includes: Dr A. Hugh Ennor (extreme left, fr
Informal group portrait of members of the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Experimental Section, later to be known as the 1st Field Trials Company, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). Identifie
Informal group portrait of scientists from the Chemical Warfare Unit, assessing results from a chemical gas experiment in a makeshift office under the trees. Identified are: Commanding Officer (UK) Ma
