The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Owers' Corner, Papua, c. 1942-09-23. Members of the 36th Infantry Battalion, a militia unit, stand in a group among tents on their arrival at Owers' Corner after being relieved in their frontline operations against the Japanese on the Kokoda Trail. The soldiers, one of whom has a .303 rifle slung across his back, have walked back along the trail from the frontline. From here, the commencement of the motor road, the men will be transported by truck to Port Moresby.
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
A group of RAAF men on a combat survival exercise across the famous Kokoda Trail in New Guinea carry fifty pounds of food and equipment on their backs they walk the one hundred miles in 12 days, inclu
Bisiatabu or Owers' Corner, Papua, 1942-09. Members of 2/4th Field Ambulance practise building native-style huts in preparation for the unit's forthcoming operations along the Kokoda Trail. (Donor A.
Kokoda Trail, Papua, c. 1942-10. Laden with boxes of military supplies, pack-mules plod along a muddy section of the track from the end of the motor road at Owers' Corner to Uberi.
Donadabu, Sogeri Valley, Papua, 1943-01. Tents and huts stand in an open area and, in the background, among trees at the Donadabu Rest Camp near Koitaki where members of the 2/4th Field Ambulance are
