The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vung Tau, South Vietnam, c. 1969. A timber hut provides simple accommodation probably for medical officers (MOs) serving at the 1st Australian Field Hospital. The beds are spartan pieces of furniture consisting of thin mattresses lying over austere metal frames. A pair of boots, a pair of thongs and a pair of dress shoes stand in a neat row beneath the bed (centre, left), beside which stand a fold-up chair and a set of cane shelves. Resting on the shelves are a box of tissues, a red plastic bottle, an apple, a biscuit tin and some folders and papers. At rear, electric wires run along the unlined interior walls of the hut, with a black cord leading from a power point (centre) to a reading light rigged up over the head of the bed (right). (Donor anonymous) (Original 35mm transparency housed in AWM Archive Store)
South Vietnam, c. 1969. Under basic conditions in a Vietnamese hospital, Vietnamese patients lie on thin mattresses on old metal-frame beds which are crammed close together in the hospital ward. A wom
Cairo, Egypt, 1916-07. Interior of the Medical Officers' (MOs) quarters at the 3rd Australian General Hospital (3AGH), with three MOs packing their belongings in preparation for the hospital's move to
Uberi, Papua, c. 1942-10. Australian soldiers, probably members of the 2/4th Field Ambulance, rest at the entrance to and inside a native hut at the unit's camp. Several of the men are bare-chested an
South Vietnam, c. 1969. An observation tower, its base heavily protected by sandbag walls, stands outside a compound occupied by Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) prisoners-of-war (POWs).
South Vietnam, c. 1969. A Bell 47G Sioux helicopter of No. 161 Recce Flight, Australian Army, hovers over what may be a Fire Support Base (FSB) under construction in the Vietnamese countryside. A pile
Interior view of a well-appointed dugout on "Officers' Walk" at Cape Helles. Contents include a bed, a corned beef crate modified as a bedside table, a candle lantern made from a biscuit tin, a camera
