The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A small boy with barbed wire wrapped across his face. On the wall behind him blood dribbles down the wall, and blood it splattered on the patch of wall around the boy's head. The boy is wearing a white singlet and his hair is a similar shade of white, giving the feeling of youth and innocence.
South of the Imjin River, a team from A Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), sets up wire defences around its perimeter. Here an unidentified soldier uses a knife to twist ba
Legacy boys during a visit by Lord and Lady Mountbatten. Identified are Ronald Bruce York (at the back on the shoulders of an older boy); John Rundle (six across from the lady, face fully visible); Ro
Gallipoli soldier's head wearing plumed slouch hat. The image of the young soldier of the light horse with his plumed hat is a symbol of youth, bravery, and innocence. Nolan felt that at the time ther
British North Borneo. June 1945. The despair and disillusion in the face of this Japanese prisoner of war (POW), taken during Allied invasion operations, must by now be characteristic of many of the S
Four Gallipoli soldiers lying across and are sinking into a representation of the Union Jack flag. Elements of the soldiers uniform including the slouch hat, ammunition belts, the 303 rifle with bayo
Depicts the skeletal body of a wounded soldier laying on the red ground with one bandaged hand grasping his rifle. The figure is encircled with real barbed wire.
