The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Troops of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion, members of Lieutenant V Passlow's, MC, platoon having their feet dressed at the Regimental Aid Post after their return from patrol. They had been cut off and had worked their way back through the scrub and over the 3800 Feature to "C" Company Headquarters. They had been two days without food, two of them had been wounded and their feet were in a shocking state, Finisterre Ranges, New Guinea.
Lieutenant V. Passlow's patrol, returning at night to "C" Company Headquarters, 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion after being cut off and making their way back through the scrub. The men have coll
Men of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion attempting to sleep after 36 hours marching and carrying store, wet through and 3000 feet up and in a very low temperature, Finisterre Ranges, New Guin
Men of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion attempting to sleep after 36 hours marching and carrying store, wet through and 3000 feet up and in a very low temperature, Finisterre Ranges, New Guin
Men of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion attempting to sleep after 36 hours marching and carrying store, wet through and 3000 feet up and in a very low temperature in the Finisterre Ranges, Ne
Depicting wounded men of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion being given a smoke after they had been carried out of sight of the enemy and it was safe to light up. This was after they had been f
Dutch New Guinea. Javanese prisoners of war (POWs) who were employed by the Japanese as labourers building roads at Biak Island hold out their hands for food. Eventually they were too weak from starva
