The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Moresby prepare a site for an astrolabe observation station at the Snake Bay Indigenous settlement. Looking on, standing to the left, is Lieut John Wriede Bulmer Gribble RANVR from Cottesloe, Western Australia who ran the Snake Bay settlement for the Western Australian Native Affairs Department and was also appointed as a coast-watcher, responsible for patrolling the northern coast of both Bathurst and Melville Islands.
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
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
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
Four RAN officers gathered around the Bofors Gun on the Quarter Deck of HMAS Moresby. Moresby visited Buna in April 1944 and the Captain and ship's officers entertained some of the officers from an Au
Informal group portrait of ship’s officers attending a conference in the Wardroom aboard the RAN Corvette, HMAS Rockhampton. Identified from left to right: Lieutenant (Lieut) James Roy Clennett, Royal
Group portrait of officers onboard His Majesty’s Australian Motor Launch 806. Identified from left to right: Lieutenant (Lieut) James Alexander Henderson, Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RAN
