The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Innisfail, QLD, 1944. Peggy Nelson, Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS), a member of the Australian Chemical Warfare Field and Experimental Section, looking through a microscope in the unit's laboratory. A male member of the unit is working in the background. The unit, later known as the 1st Field Trials Company, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), conducted research on the effects of mustard gas and other chemical warfare agents.
Innisfail, QLD, 1944. Fay Brazill, Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS), a member of the Australian Chemical Warfare Field and Experimental Section, carrying out experimental work with a pi
Innisfail, QLD, c. 1943-12. Members of the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Experimental Section carrying research equipment from a truck into the unit's Field Laboratory. The unit, later to b
Innisfail, QLD, 1944. A medical officer (MO) (left) serving with the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Experimental Section dresses a facial wound on another member of the unit, inside the unit
Innisfail, QLD, 1944. A medical officer (MO) (right) serving with the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Experimental Section dresses a leg wound on another member of the unit, inside the unit's
An unidentified member of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) inside the histology laboratory of the Australian Chemical Warfare Field and Experimental Section with a carrying out expe
Innisfail, QLD, 1943-12. The headquarters of the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Experimental Section. The unit, later to be known as the 1st Field Trials Company, Royal Australian Engineers
