The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 to the ship. HMAS Warrego took part in operations in German New Guinea including landing a party at Kabakaul on 11 September 1914 which culminated in the capturing of the Bitapaka wireless station. In December 1914 HMAS Warrego took part in an unsuccessful search for a reported German raider in Madang, New Guinea, along with SS Nusu on which Petty Officer Hubert Laurence Maynard Greaves RAN was aboard. (Donor O. Greaves)
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
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. 1915-01-05. 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
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
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
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
