The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN. C. 1914. THE CROSS BESIDE THE LOCAL NATIVE MARKS THE PLACE WHERE THE FIRST DEFENSIVE TRENCH ON THE ROAD TO THE BITAPAKA WIRELESS STATION WAS TO BE BUILT. THE BITAPAKA STATION WAS SITUATED ON THE GAZELLE PENINSULA. (DONOR COLONEL S. McKENZIE)
Bitapaka, New Britain. 1915-08-24. A RAN member of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) and an (indigenous) New Briton native stand as sentry at one of the three defensive tr
Bitapaka, New Britain. c. 1914. The wireless station which, partly built at the time of Allied occupation in 1914-09, was completed by the Australian Military Administration.
New Britain. A German made spy tree commanding the road to Bitapaka which was a few miles south of Blanche Bay. (Donor Colonel S. McKenzie)
Rabaul, New Britain. c. 1914. The site of the first German mine after the digging party had filled in the trench on the Bitapaka Road. (Donor A.W. Bazley)
Rabaul, New Britain. c. 1915. The site of the first trench on the Bitapaka Road. (Donor A.W. Bazley)
New Britain. A section of the road from Blanche Bay to Bitapaka. The drain alongside the road had originally been a series of rifle pits constructed by the German Forces. (Donor Colonel S. McKenzie)
