The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Sid Gribble of the recently-arrived 2/4th Field Ambulance (left) catches up on some paperwork inside the tent that serves as the Regimental Aid Post (RAP). Mounted at the front of the tent are a Red Cross sign and another bearing the letters 'RAP'. In the background is a large native hut that is being used as a hospital ward. Captain Oldham had already been back and forth with his unit over the Owen Stanley Range as part of the initial Australian advance and then retreat along the Kokoda Trail.
Uberi, Papua, c. 1942-10. Major Henry Oswald Gerald ('Hal') Selle, a Medical Officer (MO) serving with the 2/6th Field Ambulance, walks across an open area at the unit's Main Dressing Station (MDS). M
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
Uberi, Papua, c. 1942-10. Informal outdoors group portrait of members of the 2/6th Field Ambulance, together with a native Papuan named Machuaro (sitting, front) who had attached himself to the unit,
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 Ma
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
Imita Ridge, Papua, 1942-10. A mixed group of personnel from the 2/4th and 2/6th Field Ambulances rests in a small clearing on a ridge during the long hard climb up the so-called 'Golden Stairs' to th
