The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bitapaka, New Britain. 1915-01-05. Group portrait of RAN members of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) and (indigenous) New Briton natives standing behind a pipe mine which they have been digging out on Bitapaka Road after the taking of the German wireless station on 11 September 1914. These mines were laid by German soldiers beneath the road with wires leading to an electric battery and firing key at the bottom of a lookout tree. Petty Officer Hubert Laurence Maynard Greaves RAN is standing fourth from the left. Note the dense jungle in the background which the naval men were required to force their way through in order to capture the wireless station. (Donor O. Greaves)
Bitapaka, New Britain. 1915-01-05. Group portrait of RAN members of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) standing behind a pipe mine which they have been digging out on Bitap
Bitapaka, New Britain. 1915-08-24. A RAN member of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) and an (indigenous) New Briton native stand as sentry at one of the three defensive tr
Rabaul (?), New Britain. c.1915. The RAN destroyer HMAS Warrego docked at a wharf with RAN members of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) sitting on the wharf's steps next t
1918. Studio portrait of Petty Officer Hubert Laurence Maynard Greaves RAN wearing his seaman's uniform, his cap bearing an HMAS Melbourne tally band. Petty Officer Greaves served abroad in New Britai
The wireless mast at Bitapaka. The radio station at Bitapaka was an important strategic goal to be taken when the AN&MEF Force took New Guinea from the German authorities. It also formed a key part of
German New Guinea. A small group of unidentified members of the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) surveys the scene during the occupation of German territory by Australian force
