The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Portrait depicting Brigadier Murray John Moten, CBE, DSO and Bar, was in command of a Citizen Military Force unit at the outbreak of war and was second to command the 2/27th Australian Infantry Battalion in 1940. He led the battalion in he campaign in Syria in 1941, gaining the DSO. Promoted to brigadier and appointed to the 17th Australian Brigade he commanded it during 1943 New Guinea campaign around Wau and Salamaua, for which he became a CBE and was awarded a Bar to the DSO. He retained command of the brigade throughout its final campaign of the war in the Aitape-Wewak area of New Guinea.
Traditional New Guinean kundu drum. It is made of a hollowed tree trunk in an hourglass shape with a lizard skin stretched over one of the open ends. It has a carved handle on the left hand side and
Brass 25 pounder shell case engraved with 'THE LAST SHOT FIRED IN AITAPE-WEWAK CAMPAIGN NEW GUINEA FIRED BY C.TP.4BTY.2/2 AUST FD REGT AT ULEBILUM NEAR YAMIL SOUTH OF THE TORRECELLI MOUNTAINS AT 1002H
Depicts a portrait of NX396 Brigadier William John Victor Windeyer, CBE, DSO and Bar, MID (x3), joined the AIF to command the 2/48th Battalion during its training and in the siege of Tobruk in 1941, w
Traditional New Guinean kundu drum. It is made of a hollowed tree trunk in an hourglass shape with a lizard skin stretched over one of the open ends. It has a carved handle on the left hand side and
Portrait of Brigadier Heathcote Howard Hammer, DSO, VX24325, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, Commanding Officer 15th Brigade, Miteirya Ridge (El Alamein), Bobdubi Ridge, Wau, Salamaua, New Guinea.
Depicts a portrait of NX148 Major General Ivan N Dougherty, CBE, DSO, ED, after a period with the 2/2nd Infantry Battalion he was appointed to command the 2/4th Battalion, which he led in Libya, Greec
ACCOUNTS OF VARIOUS INCIDENTS IN WHICH WEEKS WAS INVOLVED: BEING BOMBED, MILNE BAY; WAU/SALAMAUA ACTION; AND EVENTS IN AITAPE/WEWAK CAMPAIGN. ALSO PATROL AT KOMIATUM, 1943.