The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Koo-wee-rup; woman digging grave in makeshift cemetery while others carry coffin for burial. This work illustrates the fact that the women POWs often had to bury their own dead.
Depicts several Australian Women's Land Army members in the field picking cotton by hand. As a member of the Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA), Grace Taylor was stationed at Biloela, Queensland, whe
Soputa, Papua, c. 1942-11-30. Simple wooden crosses set up in a makeshift cemetery mark the graves of some of the 22 men killed on 1942-11-27 when Japanese Zero aircraft strafed and bombed the Main Dr
This drawing was created as a cartoon for Active Service, AWM, 1941. This image has three rows of illustrations. From the left the first row depicts an man in Arab clothing riding a donkey, followed b
Female stoker in the engine room. Peter Churcher recalled, "Emma was the only female who voluntarily worked as a stoker. The engine room is an environment that does not normally suit women or people o
The women and children of Camp Karees, Bandoeng, are queued up ready to receive their rations. The rice is dispensed from the 44 gallon drums that were used for cooking. The woman in the green jumper
A daughter of English immigrants, Cossington Smith had no sympathy for the anti-conscriptionists or an Australian nationalism that posed itself against England. Yet the break she made with conventiona
