The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Thursday Island. c.1940-08. An outrigger canoe and an empire flying boat (left rear) sailing on the harbour. (Original nitrate negative held in AWM Archive Store)
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
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
Nile, Egypt (?). c.1941. Damien Parer, an official Australian war correspondent, photographer and film cameraman with the Department of Information, sits in a boat. Parer served in the Middle East, Gr
Nile, Egypt (?). c.1941. Damien Parer (left), an official Australian war correspondent, photographer and film cameraman, on the gangplank about to board a boat. Parer served in the Middle East, Greece
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
