The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 the ship was bombed in Darwin harbour during the first Japanese air raid on Darwin. (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
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. 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
Self portrait of NX65289 Corporal Robert John Bevir sitting on the stairs in the lounge of the Australian hospital ship Manunda. Bevir was killed on 19 February 1942 while aboard the Manunda when the
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)
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 childre
