The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Kokoda, Papua, 1942-11. Set out in rows, tents and native grass huts serve as hospital wards at the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance. (Note: The location of this image is incorrectly given as Soputa in Dr Alan Watson's video, Kokoda War Diary.)
Kokoda, Papua, 1942-11. NX454 Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Francis Hobson, CO of the 2/4th Field Ambulance, stands with his hands in his pockets at the unit's newly-established camp and Main Dressing Sta
Kokoda, Papua, 1942-11. A team of native Papuan stretcher-bearers brings in a wounded soldier to the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of 2/4th Field Ambulance. In the background (left), NX135425 Captain Jo
Myola 1, Papua, 1942-10. Originiating in 10,000-feet high mountains, water tumbles down a set of rapids in a stream or creek near the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance (not in v
Kokoda, Papua, 1942-11. Informal outdoors portrait of NX70195 Captain Alan Victor Day (left), a Medical Officer (MO) serving with the 2/4th Field Ambulance, and a native named Machuaro who had attache
Soputa, Papua, 1942-12. The gunyah or temporary shelter occupied by NX34655 Captain Alan Oliver Watson, Dental Officer with the 2/4th Field Ambulance, stands well camouflaged with jungle foliage at th
Kokoda, Papua, 1942-11. A group of native Papuan labourers works on the roof of a grass hut that they are building as a hospital ward for the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance.
