The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Sydney Harbour, NSW, 1940-01-10. Soldiers of the 16th Brigade Group, 6th Division, 2nd AIF, line the decks of His Majesty's Transport No. 4 to catch their last look at Sydney as they sail in the first convoy of troops bound for the Middle East. In the background is Bennelong Point from which crowds of people are watching the convoy's departure. The troopship, formerly the ocean liner Otranto, has been converted into a defensively equipped merchant ship (DEMS). At centre (right) stands one of the guns with which it has been armed, a 4-inch gun of World War 1 vintage. A RAN sailor is standing below the barrel of the gun (right).
Torokina, Bougainville, 1945-08-15. A large crowd of Australian soldiers attends a memorial service, probably on a sports field, on Victory in the Pacific (VP) Day. The service is being conducted by N
Haifa, Palestine, 1940-07-15. Black smoke billows from oil tanks which have been set on fire in the first air raid on the port city, carried out by forty aircraft of the Italian Air Force. In the fore
Palestine, 1940. Informal outdoors portrait of a group of Australian officers of the 2nd AIF standing with two Palestinian Arab civilians on the steps of a building. The men are (left to right): an un
Sydney, NSW, 1940-01-04. Informal outdoors portrait of Major Adams (left) and NX234 Padre Francis Oag Hulme-Moir, after a march of 8,000 men of the 2nd AIF through the streets of Sydney. Padre Hulme-M
Palestine, 1940-12-25. Outdoors group portrait of the officers and senior NCOs of Headquarters Company, 6th Australian Division Cavalry Regiment, at the unit's camp at Christmas. The men in the front
Palestine, 1941-11. Informal outdoors portrait of officers of the 6th Australian Division Cavalry Regiment on the day that the unit departed for Syria. The group includes: the unit's Commanding Office
