The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1942-43. Station 13, an Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battery (AASL Bty) site at Vabukori in the Port Moresby area belonging to the 73rd AASL Bty. The site is behind a number of native style buildings on stilts near the water's edge.
Victory Medal, impressed around edge with recipient's details. Associated with the service of Hilda Mary Loxton. Loxton was born in Inverell, NSW in 1879 and trained as a civilian nurse at the Sydne
Brigade Headquarters of the 73rd Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battery in the Port Moresby area, seen from above the road.
Fred Hillier standing guard in front of a Lister generator producing power for the operation of a 150 cm anti-aircraft searchlight No 2 (not pictured) of the 65th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Company (65
A group portrait of members, probably of the 65th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Battery (65 AASL Bty). The soldiers identified, left to right, are: Back row: F Skelly; Ray White; unidentified; Scottie (?
Informal portrait of two members of the 65th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Company (65 AASL Coy), later retitled 65th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Battery (65 AASL Bty), near Darwin, with a 150 cm anti-aircr
Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1942. The headquarters of the 67th Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battery.
The grave of NX102161 Sapper, Harold Arthur Pickard, of Paddington, NSW, who enlisted at Pymble, NSW, on 2 August 1942. He was posted to the 73rd Anti Aircraft Searchlight Battery, where he died of il
