The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Uijongbu area, Korea, c. 1950-12-25. At Christmas time, a company of soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), lines up to take a hot shower in a large tent (right) set up by a visiting American shower unit. The apparatus mounted on a trailer and belching smoke (centre left) is a combination pump and heater which is drawing water from the adjacent creek and heating it. For most of the soldiers, this would have been their first shower or bath for more than a month. (Donor I. Robertson)
Probably Uijongbu area, Korea, c. 1950-12. A trailer-mounted apparatus consisting of a combination water heater and pump stands in the entrance of a large tent which has been set up by an American sh
Uijongbu area, Korea, c. 1950-12-25. At Christmas time, members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), comb their hair after taking a hot shower in a tent (not in view) set up by
Korea, c. 1951-02. Members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), get dressed after taking a hot shower in a tent (left) which was set up by a visiting American shower unit. It wa
An unidentified soldier enjoys a steaming hot shower in a dugout, at a hilltop camp in Korea. Outside, and further up the hill, two soldiers are working at keeping hot water supplied to the shower by
Exterior view of a standard type of bath house in use by the Australian Corps at Corbie. At the front of the bath house is a GS wagon with British soldiers on board. At the rear of the bath house is a
Some of the 1st Division lined up for a bath outside the hot baths in Heilly, in France, in December 1916. Apparatus to supply hot baths invariably followed the Australian troops wherever conditions w
