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Depicts three soldiers baking bread, and removing the bread from oven. 3 Australian Field Bakery Company, General Details Issuing Depot; Corporal G A Moore, Private R K Brennan, Private C Oakes (all Bakery Company). The man on the right is using a 'peel' to draw tins out of the oven. The man in the centre takes the tins as they reach the front of the oven and puts them on the table, removing the loaf as he does so. The third man stacks the loaves, greases the tins and, with assistance of a fourth man, not shown, removes the loaves to the bread room. The oven is a double-decker steam pipe oven and has a capacity of 80 four-pound loaves. This bakery produced 28,000lbs of bread with two platoons and supplies four Detail Issuing Depots.
PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1944-04-20. N163025 PRIVATE R. O'NEILL (1), AND NX149147 CORPORAL L.A. JOHNSTON (2), MEMBERS OF THE 6TH FIELD BAKING PLATOON LOAD AN OVEN WITH BREAD AT THE "STEAMSHIP BAKERY"
RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN, 1945-10-17. PERSONNEL OF SECTION 2, 8 FIELD BAKING PLATOON REMOVING A BATCH OF NEW LOAVES FROM THE OVEN. 6,600 POUNDS OF BREAD IS BAKED HERE DAILY GIVING EACH MAN IN HEADQUARTERS
DARWIN, NT. 1943-07-07. UNLOADING BAKERY OVEN AT THE 12TH AUSTRALIAN FIELD BAKERY, NO. 1 PLATOON. BAKING TIME AVERAGES 40 MINUTES. CORPORAL D.S. REED IS WITH THE "PEEL" AND PRIVATE ELLIS "PEELING ON".
ADELAIDE RIVER, N.T. AUSTRALIA. 1942-10-08. WHEN THERE IS A HEAVY DEMAND ON 12 AUSTRALIAN FIELD BAKERY FOR BREAD, ALDERSHOT OVENS ARE PRESSED INTO USE. PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS PRIVATE B. SAMS (LEFT) AND PRIV
TARAKAN ISLAND. 17 JUNE 1945. PRIVATE R J MEYER (1), PTE H J THORSEN (2) AND PTE H A J HUNTER (3) OF 2/3 FIELD BAKING PLATOON, REMOVING BREAD FROM OVENS AND BAKING TINS IN THE UNIT BAKEHOUSE.
Men of the 1st Australian Field Bakery, Imbros, baking at a long row of ovens. Freshly baked bread is in the foreground along with baking tins and wood for the ovens. The baker with the pole (left)
