The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
(Roll 1) Vessel arrives at Port Moresby wharf early in the morning. Local wharf labour watch army crew bathing. Derricks being prepared for unloading. 40 Army work boat being unloaded. This is for use of 2 Battalion Pacific Islands Regiment Wewak Vanamo area in New Guinea. Corporal Gordon McDonald a former member of the crew of the same vessel when it was the MV Mara on the Spencer Gulf to Sydney run. Corporal McDonald lives in Adelaide and has had five and a half years Army service. The vessel left Sydney partly loaded on the 16 September, arrived Brisbane 19 September to complete loading, departed 25 September to arrive Port Moresby early morning on the 1 October loaded with Army stores for Papua New Guinea Command including 40 Engineers work boat for use by 2 PIR. Crates of prefab huts for use at HQ PNG. Command as temporary office and storage space for the recently built up Command in Papua New Guinea. (Roll 2) Corporal McDonald talks with a member of 1 Battalion PIR who is assisting in unloading. Sapper Brian Rodgers of Sutherland winch operator. (Roll 3) HQ PNG Command where crates are being loaded. Crates being checked off civil transport which is delivering to HQ a distance of 5 miles from the wharf.
The Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea, Mr Michael Somare, yesterday (Sunday 17 September) visited the major Army exercise being conducted in the Huon Peninsula area of Papua New Guinea. It is believe
Army engineers are forging ahead with a construction programme in the Port Moresby area, which is part of the current Army expansion and reorganisation in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Forty two of
The town of Kainantu in the Eastern Highlands of New-Guinea, has a new landmark - a Cross of Remembrance. Built by local members of the RSL, the cross stands in a commanding position on a hill overloo
A two-week visit to New Guinea by Citizen Military Forces officer, Brigadier S.M. McDonald, ended last week when he attended a bivouac at Mount Hagan, in the Western Highlands. Brigadier McDonald watc
During a tour of Army establishments in Papua New Guinea this week, the Minister for the Army, Mr Malcolm Fraser, stopped off at Goroka, in the Eastern Highlands, to meet members of a local detachment
In Vietnam the army's sea going sailors are keeping open the vital supply lines between the base area at Vung Tau and the Australian Task Force, 20 miles away at Nui Dat. In the twisting Saigon River,
