The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Australian Forestry Units working in Dumfriesshire in Scotland move felled and cut wood which are then loaded onto trucks and transported to the saw mill for further processing. The use of skids or parallel wooden panels to assist in the leaverage of logs on the steep mountain side in the Scottish Highlands. The men working on the movement of the logs are members of the Australian Forestry Unit and workers from Honuduras who have been attached to the Australian Unit to contribute manual labour to the war effort.
Shacklers were responsible for preparing wire ropes for forest harvesting. Using a group composition, Hawkins captures the dynamic movement of the expert woodsmen as they manoeuver the felled trees of
A group composition of Australian and British Honduran forestry men felling trees in the remote forests of Scotland during the Second World War. Hawkins heard about the important, but largely unknown,
Sapper Jack White of 2nd Company Australian Forestry Unit, Engineers Unit which was based at the Thornhill mill site in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Depicts members of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force, Royal Australian Engineers, Forestry Units, moving felled logs in the snow. The artist inscribed on the work that this was the workers' "first sno
A group of figures, participating in a church parade, march down a Scottish street with buildings to one side and trees to the other. A view of the countryside is evident above the parade. The men de
Sapper Jack Garrig was an engineer who worked in the 2nd Coy Australian Forestry Unit based at Thornhill in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Corporal Henry 'Blue' Rogers (NX14969), of the 2/1st Australian Forestry Company. This unit was based at Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, when this work was painted.
A figure stands in front of a saw mill preparing a log in preparation for rail transport. The 3rd Coy, Australian Forestry Unit based in Canonbie, Dumfrieshire, Scotland is situated in close proximity
