The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1914-08. INSCRIPTION ON VERSO: "GROUP OF A.C. (ARMED CONSTABULARY?) AT RADIO STATION...AUG 1914, AWAITING INSTRUCTIONS FIRST DAY OF WAR, BEFORE STATION WAS ENTRENCHED". THE GROUP COMPRISES EUROPEANS AS WELL AS ARMED NATIVE CONSTABULARY MEMBERS (RIGHT). (ORIGINAL PRINT HELD IN AWM PR91/102)
PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1914-08. INSCRIPTION ON VERSO: "VIEW OF RADIO STATION, PORT MORESBY, AUG 1914 SHOWING ENTRENCHMENTS AND A.C. (ARMED CONSTABULARY?) CAMP". (ORIGINAL PRINT HELD IN AWM PR91/102
PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1914-08. INSCRIPTION ON VERSO: "GROUP OF NATIVES AT RADIO STATION, PORT MORESBY, AUG 1914, RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS". A LARGE CROWD OF NATIVES ARE GATHERED, A SERGEANT OF THE A
PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1914-08. INSCRIPTION ON VERSO: "DIGGING TRENCHES, RADIO STATION, PORT MORESBY, AUG 1914". NATIVES DIG INSIDE THE BARBED WIRE PERIMETER FENCE, WITH SANDBAGS MARKING THE LINE O
PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1914-08. THE LIGHT CRUISER HMAS ENCOUNTER, SMOKE ISSUING FROM HER REAR FUNNEL, ABOUT TO LEAVE THE HARBOUR TO CARRY OUT PATROL DUTY. (ORIGINAL PRINT HELD IN AWM PR91/102)
PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1914-07. VIEW OF THE HARBOUR FROM A STREET IN THE TOWN, SHOWING THE CRUISER HMAS ENCOUNTER AND THE BURNS PHILP VESSEL MATUNGA AT ANCHOR. (ORIGINAL PRINT HELD IN AWM PR91/102)
Captain Robin Wood (in uniform at left) station supervisor of “9PA” the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s radio station in Port Moresby with Captain Edgar L. Tidwell (in uniform at right) Officer-i
