The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Melville Island, 1944-10. A group of Aboriginal people from the Snake Bay settlement display some of the ducks and geese shot on an expedition during which they led some officers and sailors from HMAS Moresby to a swamp near the settlement.
Informal group portrait of an unidentified shooting party of officers and sailors from HMAS Moresby, and Aboriginal guides from the Snake Bay Aboriginal settlement. The group display some of the ducks
Informal portrait of Surgeon Lieutenant Ronald George MacAlpine ‘Doc’ McKay RANR, from Broken Hill, NSW, exhausted after returning with a shooting party from HMAS Moresby. The party were guided by abo
Melville Island, 1944-10. An unidentified Indigenous man and some of the buildings of the Snake Bay settlement (Milikapiti) in the background. This settlement of Tiwi people was run by John Gribble fo
Lieutenant (Lieut) Lewin Arthur Jones RANVR from Subiaco, Western Australia (left) watched by Lieut Reginald John Hardstaff RAN from Northwood, NSW photographing two Indigenous children near the jetty
Lieutenant (Lieut) Lewin Arthur Jones RANVR from Subiaco, Western Australia (right) is driving in a peg held by Lt Reginald John Hardstaff RAN from Northwood, NSW as members of the crew from HMAS More
A group of locally engaged Aboriginal people preparing and arranging a communal meal. The group works as mess‑staff at the Aboriginal settlement near Adelaide River, which is managed and controlled by
