The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Probably El Dabaa, Egypt, 1915-12-25. On a bitterly cold day, five members of the 1st Divisional Train, Australian Army Service Corps (AASC), eat a meagre Christmas dinner on an unprotected piece of flat ground near the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. The soldiers are (left to right): Lieutenant John Edward Chaplin, who has a mug and an enamel plate with food on it resting on the ground between his legs; Captain Walter Ormond Stevenson, who is eating off an enamel plate; Major Albert Armytage Holdsworth, the unit CO, who is holding a dixie in one hand and a piece of food in the other; unknown; unknown, who is stirring a mug of tea and holding a bun or piece of fruit in his other hand. The men are using as a table a wooden crate on which a large teapot and some mugs are resting.
A man taking recess in the tea house leans on the tea counter with his tea in a mug in his right hand, the tea lady wearing glasses and her hair pulled back into a bun rests the teapot on the counter
Korea, c. 1951-02. With snow lying on the ground behind them, two members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), warm themselves by a campfire (right) as the soldier sitting on th
Outdoor group portrait of members of 2/1 Heavy Battery, which formed part of Sparrow Force, tasked with the defence of Timor against the Japanese. Identified are TX4877 Staff Sergeant (S Sgt) Ian Will
Group of unidentified soldiers, informally grouped on the wharf prior to boarding HMAT Clan MacGillivray (A46). On the right, second row, crouching is a sergeant with a large moustache and wearing an
The 20 mm Type 98 is an anti tank and anti aircraft gun of the Oerlikon Pattern. The gun is gas operated and magazine fed. The gun mounting is so designed that by spreading the trail and outrigger a t
Trench life in the lines occupied by D Company. One of the men in the background is smoking a cigarette, the feet of a resting soldier are showing in the foreground and the man on the right is stirri
