The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Members of the 1st Australian Marine Supply Platoon at work netting fish, setting rigged lines, and clearing fish traps. Approximately 2,000lbs to 3,000lbs of fresh fish were being delivered to Port Moresby weekly by this unit and distributed to all hospitals in the area. Supply Depot Platoon: appreciating the need for a continual supply of fresh fruits for hospital patients in the Port Moresby area, and having received information that native gardens in the Yule Island area were producing more than local requirements, the army had a small detachment of experienced personnel on or around Yule Island for the purpose of bartering native ration scale items for fresh fruits with the local inhabitants. Identified personnel: Lieut. P. Hanna, Pte. J. Fullerton, W.O.M. Vesper (RAE Australian Water Tpt. GP).
YULE ISLAND, NEW GUINEA. 1944-05-20/11. CORPORAL L GILBERT, 1ST MARINE FOOD SUPPLY PLATOON (1), COXSWAIN OF THE AM1939, WHICH CARRIES FISH TO PORT MORESBY, DISPLAYNG TWO FINE MACKEREL CAUGHT BY TROLLI
New Guinea. Private L. Gilbert of Elwood, Vic, and a local native man loads fishing nets on to a boat. Fresh fish for the hospitals is secured by an Army Transport Unit which sends luggers up the coas
YULE ISLAND, NEW GUINEA. 1944-05-11/20. THE AM1939, A MOTOR VESSEL OF THE 1ST MARINE FOOD SUPPLY PLATOON COVERING THE 70 MILE JOURNEY BETWEEN PORT MORESBY AND THE ISLAND. TRAVELLING AT HALF SPEED, THE
Native carriers and the difficult conditions of weather and terrain they had to overcome to supply members of the AIF and New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, (NGVR) known as Kanga Force. Supplies are brought
Home movies relating to the service of 3788598 Private (Pte) Robert Kingsley Bruce, 85 Transport Platoon, Royal Australian Army Service Corps (RAASC), Vietnam 1967-1968. Films taken on a super 8 movie
Home movies relating to the service of 18597 Captain Edward Michael Harold Heslin, 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit in Vietnam 1967-1968. Edward Heslin was selected to be the Engineer Captain in char
