The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 of Casey's Knoll, and on the other side of a deep mud pool, where we saw an overloaded straggler making his way with grim earnestness up the greasy slopes 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 see what 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.
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 s
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 s
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
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
Depicts a father sitting in an armchair with a look of concern across his face. His son plays with toys soldiers below him on the carpet, while his daughter sits on his knee, pointing to a page in her
An anti-semitic poem produced before WWI. A man, Louie Epstein, stands with his empty hands outstretched. The poem to the left of the image reads 'Allow me friends to introduce a man whose jaw hangs l