The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Korea, c. 1951-02. Dressed in traditional clothing, a husband and wife pair of Korean peasants sits outside their farmhouse and extract or sort seeds from a crop they have grown. The man is sitting on a mat and working over a wooden bowl that stands inside a wooden tub. The woman has a wooden bowl and box on either side of her and is working with a mound of seeds on a piece of matting. Behind her stand some large storage jars, while at right is an A-frame for carrying large loads on the back. Some snow rests on the ground at rear (right).
Probably Han River, Korea, c. 1951-01. Squatting on her haunches, a Korean peasant woman uses a wooden washing board to do her washing in the icy waters of the river. Behind her is a tub containing h
Korea, 1951. Working at a trestle table at a camp or bivouac site in the countryside, a cook from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), prepares a batch of scones for baking. In the
A jeep and trailer, probably from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), have been parked at a field where a large group of Korean men, women and children are working on a crop. A w
Madang, New Guinea, 1945-12-25. Interior of the Officers' Mess at Headquarters, RAAF Northern Command (NORCOM), decorated for Christmas. Streamers improvised from some sort of local grass hang down fr
Turned wooden bowl with separate lid with integral button handle.The lid is decorated with a circular floral design in red, while the body of the bowl features a sawtooth design; the lower areas are p
Australian soldiers and Iraqi locals crossing a foot bridge over the Euphrates River in As Samawah. On the right, a woman wearing a black burkha is carrying a large silver bowl on her head which conta
