The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A group composition of Australian and British Honduran forestry men felling trees in the remote forests of Scotland during the Second World War. Hawkins heard about the important, but largely unknown, work being done by the Australian Forestry Units in Scotland. She took two weeks' leave from her Public Relations position at RAAF Headquarters in London, to witness and document their work. In later correspondence with the Australian War Memorial, she writes admiringly of these men: "...there was no way to suggest the amazing precision and perfection of every movement - the speed with which everything was started and finished before I could catch enough of the action."
Australian Forestry Units working in Dumfriesshire in Scotland move felled and cut wood which are then loaded onto trucks and transported to the saw mill for further processing. The use of skids or p
Depicts felled trees and shelter in the forests of Scotland, where Australian Forestry Units were stationed during the Second World War. Sheila Hawkins visited Scotland on two-weeks' leave from her jo
Shacklers were responsible for preparing wire ropes for forest harvesting. Using a group composition, Hawkins captures the dynamic movement of the expert woodsmen as they manoeuver the felled trees of
Australian Forestry Group RAE in Britain shown at work in Dumfrieshire Scotland. Felling timber, transporting to mill on narrow gauge rail trolleys and general shots of forestry workers at workers in
Depicts members of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force, Royal Australian Engineers, Forestry Units, moving felled logs in the snow. The artist inscribed on the work that this was the workers' "first sno
Several men toil in the foreground alongside some tall trees. A large fire burns in the back ground in efforts to burn off the remains of the de-forestation area and preparing the ground for replantin
A group of four members of the Australian forestry unit manually saw the felled wood into smaller pieces for transport. Two men saw the wood while one holds the log in place and the other is lining up
