The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Uberi, Papua, c. 1942-10. Informal outdoors portrait of three members of the 2/4th Field Ambulance. Left to right: NX70195 Captain Alan Victor Day; NX454 Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Arthur Francis Hobson, the CO; Sergeant (Sgt) Watt, a senior nursing orderly. Their dress shows evidence of the unit's lack of preparedness for the campaign ahead along the Kokoda Trail, with Captain Day wearing puttees as used in the deserts of North Africa, Sgt Watt wearing gaiters for normal dress wear and Lt Col Hobson having neither puttees nor gaiters.
Kokoda, Papua, 1942-11. Informal outdoors portrait of NX454 Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Arthur Francis Hobson, CO of the 2/4th Field Ambulance, at the unit's camp and Main Dressing Station (MDS). Lt C
Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) H C H Robertson, Commander in Chief BCOF, inspects unidentified members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). They are standing at attention in a para
Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) H C H Robertson, Commander in Chief BCOF, inspects unidentified members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). They are standing at attention in a para
Group portrait of Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Walter Oswald Watt, Officer Commanding of the 1st Wing, Australian Flying Corps (AFC) and his staff of officers. Back row, left to right: Lieutenant (Lt)
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
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
