The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A wounded Australian soldier has his cigarette lit by Salvation Army Chaplain Albert Moore, padre to the 2/14th Battalion. The soldier on the stretcher is VX51106 Lieutenant Valentine G. Gardner, D Company, 2/14th Battalion. An unidentified soldier on the left having a drink has a bandaged head and is carrying a staff. A Papuan stretcher bearer (popularly known as a Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel) is behind the stretcher. (Frame enlargement from AWM films, F01212 or F01582 taken by Damien Parer).
BUNA, PAPUA. FIGHTING DURING THE FINAL ASSAULT ON BUNA. AUSTRALIAN MACHINE GUNNERS IN ACTION AROUND 5.30 PM NEW YEARS DAY 1943. DEAD MAN ON LEFT WAS CORPORAL CHARLES KNIGHT. PRIVATE JOHN SENIOR IS BEH
TAPE 1: Early life; joined 7 Militia Battalion in 1936 aged sixteen; training in the militia; in 1940 promoted to corporal and became instructor of new recruits into the AIF; transferred from militia
NATIVE BEARERS (POPULARLY KNOWN AS FUZZY WUZZY ANGELS) CARRY A WOUNDED AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER ON A STRETCHER. THEY ARE MOVING UP A STEEP HILL TRACK THROUGH THICK TROPICAL JUNGLE.
Kokoda, Papua, 1942-11. Watched over by two native Papuan stretcher-bearers, a wounded Australian soldier lies on a stretcher in the shade of some large palm leaves beside the Kokoda airstrip (not in
Soputa, Papua, 1942-11. Informal outdoors portrait of a native Papuan 'boss boy' at the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance. Boss boys were in charge of native stretcher-bearer te
Kokoda, Papua, 1942-11. Corporal Gribble of the 2/4th Field Ambulance (centre) and a group of native Papuan stretcher-bearers keep a kindly watch over two wounded Australian soldiers who are waiting i
Uberi, Papua, c. 1942-10. Under the supervision of a 'boss boy' (centre, right), a group of native Papuan carriers sets out from Uberi as they evacuate a wounded Australian soldier on a stretcher alon
Soputa, Papua, 1942-11. Carrying a wounded Australian soldier, a team of native Papuan stretcher-bearers arrives at the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance. The stretcher-bearers,
