The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Owers' Corner, Papua, c. 1942-09-23. Mr Hepper (centre), a YMCA representative, stands next to the philanthropic organisation's tent which is set up beside the road and is distinguished by a large YMCA sign emblazoned on an outline map of Australia. Another tent (right), in which two soldiers are sitting, is the Regimental Aid Post (RAP), its medical function indicated by a small Red Cross flag or pennant attached to a pole standing in front of the large tree (centre, right). A rolled-up stretcher leans against the trunk of the tree behind the pennant. Owers' Corner marks the limit of the motor road from Port Moresby on the southern section of the Kokoda Trail, with all movement forward from this point having to be undertaken on foot. A Military Policeman (MP) was permanently on duty here to instruct soldiers as to their onward movement.
Owers' Corner, Papua, c. 1942-09-23. NX70195 Captain Alan Victor Day (right), a Medical Officer (MO), stands in front of the Regimental Aid Post (RAP) that he runs. Two soldiers (centre) who may be re
Owers' Corner, Papua, 1942-10. A group of Australian soldiers rest among the tents at the camp after returning on foot from the scene of fighting on the Kokoda Trail. In the background (left), a milit
Owers' Corner, Papua, c. 1942-09-23. Native carriers set about breaking up boxes and crates of supplies into 20-pound loads suitable for carrying along the Kokoda Trail. The supplies have been deliver
Amiens-Harbonnieres area, France, 1918. Three Australian soldiers relaxing in front of an Australian YMCA post, which consists of a tent erected over a shallow dugout with a YMCA sign mounted in front
Moving up to Owers' Corner. Along the Port Moresby-Owers' Corner road. An outstanding feat of Allied engineers, the distance though not great in distance is formidable considering torrential downpours
Part of the tent lines of the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), at the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base. A large tent stands among trees of a rubber plantation, each side of th
