The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Cairo, Egypt (?). c. 1940-11. NX65289 Corporal Robert J. Bevir (right), attached to 2/1st Australian hospital ship Manunda, watches as Staff Sergeant Austin (?) has his shoes polished by local children on the side of the road. (Original nitrate negative held in AWM Archive Store)
Darwin. c.1940-08. NX65289 Corporal Robert J. Bevir (right) and two unidentified men stand next to a stone on which has been painted the words "Adolf Hitler died 1940". Bevir was killed on 19 February
Palestine (?). c.1940-11. While travelling on leave, a nurse, asleep in the back of a car, rests her head on the shoulder of a sleeping officer attached to 2/1st Australian hospital ship Manunda. (Ori
Thursday Island. c.1940-08. NX65289 Corporal Robert John Bevir in the orderly room aboard the 2/1st Australian hospital ship Manunda. Bevir was killed on 19 February 1942 while aboard the Manunda when
Sydney. c.1940-10. A unit on the wharf preparing to embark on the 2/1st Australian hospital ship Manunda. The Manunda was bombed in Darwin harbour on 19 February 1942 during the first Japanese air rai
c.1941. Nurses attached to 2/1st Australian hospital ship Manunda sit and relax with a cup of tea talking to some Australian servicemen. In the foreground is Sister Vere Wilkinson, Australian Army Nur
c.1941. An anaesthetist monitors a patient in the operating theatre aboard the 2/1st Australian hospital ship Manunda. The Manunda was bombed in Darwin harbour on 19 February 1942 during the first Jap
