The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Sitting inside the orderly tent at the camp of the 2/4th Field Ambulance, four staff members carry out the paperwork necessary for the functioning of the unit. The men are (left to right): Sergeant Major Williams; Sergeant Sweeting; Private (Pte) Gribble, a dental technician; Pte ? Kalinek. Though cramped, the tent provides a dry environment for the men to perform their clerical duties. The Field Ambulance has just moved to the campsite from Port Moresby in preparation for operations along the Kokoda Trail.
Myola 1, Papua, 1942-10. Informal outdoors group portrait of members of the surgical team at the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance. Left to right: Staff Sergeant Stanley Clark,
Informal outdoors portrait of NX70195 Captain Alan Victor Day (left), a Medical Officer (MO) serving with the 2/4th Field Ambulance, and SX13013 Lieutenant Murray V. Barlow, the unit's Transport Offic
Uberi, Papua, c. 1942-10. NX34762 Captain John Maxwell Oldham (right), a Medical Officer (MO) serving with the 2/6th Field Ambulance, stands in the open with his hands in his pockets, while Private Si
Nauro area, Papua, 1942-10. A member of the 2/4th Field Ambulance (partly visible, right) looks towards a patch of dense jungle in which a tent, though pitched only ten yards off this section of the K
Efogi North, Papua, 1942-10-15. The tents of 2/4th Field Ambulance are set up at a temporary camp on a partially cleared slope in the jungle along the Kokoda Trail. The Field Ambulance was delayed her
Nauro, Papua, 1942-10. A tent (centre) belonging to the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance stands almost concealed in dense jungle along the Kokoda Trail.
