The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Sketch of an Australian soldier standing in a pool of muddy water, holding a rifle and waving his fist at his fellow soldiers who are all sitting around laughing. Dargie noted:
"The essence of slap stick humour is still the dignified gent who steps on a banana skin. We were resting near the top of Casey's Knoll, and on the other side of a deep mud pool, when we saw an overloaded straggler making his way with grim earnestness up the greasy slope toward us. We all watched him in silence, but with great interest; all of us had come to grief, more or less, in that mud pool, and we wanted to see what sort of a crossing he made. He came to the edge, looked for a way round (there wasn't any. We knew!) stepped gingerly forward --- and fell flat on his face. That pool was three feet deep. He broke surface again, looked at his heartless cobbers splitting their sides, and made his comment".
A rough sketch of the incident portrayed in picture ART22090. As Dargie recalled, "The essence of slap stick humour is still the dignified gent who steps on a banana skin. We were resting on the top
One soldier is playing a guitar, while three others sit around him singing along. This is as sketch of members of the 2/10th Australian Infantry Battalion after a long climb up the mountains to Casey
Robert Cooper served in Afghanistan 2010-2011. He was deployed as an ASLAV gunner with 2 Cavalry Regiment as part of MTF-2 (Mentoring Task Force – Rotation 2), based in Uruzgan Province. While on de
An elderly man stands with one arm around his wife's waist, while in the other he holds the dead body of a young girl. At the couple's feet lies the body of a young woman in a pool of her own blood -
Pen and ink sketch of soldiers of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher. Dargie noted: "After digging our way over the landslide mentioned in sketch 291
Australian poster depicting a peaceful scene in the Torres Straits. The poster states that we should fight with all our strength and wealth for peace. The text reads: Eyes on the North... Up here,