The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
KENSINGTON?, NSW, C. 1914. A GROUP OF CADETS OF E.F. COMPANY, 24TH REGIMENT, ON MESS DUTY, POSING WITH THEIR MESSING EQUIPMENT. THEY ARE STANDING IN FRONT OF ROWS OF TENTS SET UP ON WHAT IS PROBABLY KENSINGTON RACECOURSE (NOW THE SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NSW). THE CADETS ARE YOUTHS UNDERTAKING COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING AS PART OF THE CONSCRIPTION SCHEME INTRODUCED IN 1911. THE YOUNG MAN SECOND FROM LEFT WITH A CIGARETTE IN HIS MOUTH IS REGINALD MCKELLAR. THE GROUP'S MESSING EQUIPMENT INCLUDES MEAT CLEAVERS, A CARVING KNIFE, SKEWERING FORK, SOUP LADLE, FRYING PAN AND AN ASSORTMENT OF BILLIES AND DIXIES.
Romsey, Hampshire, England. c. 1915-04. Informal outdoors group portrait of the cooks of the 1st Australian Divisional Ammunition Park 4th Section standing in front of their field ovens from which tal
New Guinea. Australian Medical Women's Auxiliary Service girls take it in turn to wait on tables at messtime. In the kitchen of a hospital are, left to right, Private (Pte) Dawn Whitter of Moonee Pond
Dutch New Guinea. 1944-09-21. Private Jack C. Church of 309 Van Dorn Street, Corbin, Kentucky, USA, one of the hundreds of GIs flown north from Port Moresby to Hollandia in Martin PBM Mariner aircraft
Korea, c. 1951-03. Informal group portrait of the cooks of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), together with the Officer Commanding C Company, 2/40097 Captain Sverre Witzo ('Fred'
Outdoor portrait of a group of allied Prisoners of War (POW) dressed for a concert party. The sign under the gramophone reads “The Arcadians” and the other props include a pick, a rake, a coffee pot,
