The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Berimu Village, New Guinea. 1945-08-05. NX89477 Corporal C.C.B. Warren, on the left, and NX16628 Private C.F. Cunningham of the 2/7th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF, on a six day patrol into enemy territory, pause to make a hot drink with their field operational tins using canned heat to boil the water. Wood fires could not be used as the smoke would be spotted by the Japanese.
KANCHANABURI, THAILAND. 1943. MRS SURAT SIRIVEJCHAPAH SITTING AT A TABLE IN THE GENERAL STORE IN PARKPRAG ROAD OWNED BY BOONPONG SIRIVEJCHAPAH. NOTE THE ROWS OF CANNED FOOD ON THE SHELVES BEHIND HER.
Aitape Sector, New Guinea. Sitting around their foxhole on the edge of But aerodrome, these soldiers prepare a cup of tea on a primus stove. Sometimes the boys go without tea for days as in a forward
Oven, Aldershot Pattern, Mk II. The oven is comprised of two sheets of iron, approximately 1500mm in length, rolled into a semi-circular shape. Each sheet is reinforced on each end and in the middle
Steel No. 210 fuze case, painted black on the exterior. A seam runs up one side. The cartridge is slightly misshappen and some of the paint is scratched off, especially around the top. The base is sta
Tan-coloured circular piece from a parachute. Section of parachute worn by Sergeant John Wood as sun protection while walking through the desert in Libya and Egypt in 1942. On the night of 7/8 Octo
Portrait of 2784336 Signalman (Sig) Stuart Lindsay Weller, 104 Signal Squadron, in newly issued Army uniform. One of 477 colour 35mm transparencies taken or collected by Sig Weller relating to his ser
