The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
TRANSPORT DIFFICULTIES ARE SO GREAT IN THE NEW GUINEA BATTLE AREA THAT FIELD GUNS HAD TO BE DISMANTLED BEFORE THEY COULD BE MOVED TO FORWARD POSITIONS IN THE JUNGLE. THE MEN WHO UNDERTOOK THIS TASK SAY THAT IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT JOBS OF THE WAR. IDENTIFIED ARE; FIFTH FROM LEFT, SERGEANT JACK CAHILL (FACING CAMERA WITH NO HAT OR SHIRT); SEVENTH FROM LEFT, LIEUTENANT ERIC TREVOR, GUN POSITION OFFICER; NINTH FROM LEFT, GUNNER SYD BANKS (IN BACKGROUND FACING CAMERA) (NEGATIVE BY BOTTOMLEY).
REPORTS FROM NEW GUINEA TELL OF THE SPLENDID PART PLAYED BY AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY UNITS IN RECENT OPERATIONS AGAINST THE JAPANESE. THIS PICTURE GIVES SOME INDICATION OF THE TREMENDOUS TASK THAT CONFRON
REPORTS FROM NEW GUINEA TELL OF THE SPLENDID PART PLAYED BY AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY UNITS IN RECENT OPERATIONS AGAINST THE JAPANESE. THIS PICTURE GIVES SOME INDICATION OF THE TREMENDOUS TASK THAT CONFRON
PAPUA. GENERAL SIR THOMAS BLAMEY, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ALLIED LAND FORCES, SPEAKS WITH MEN OF AN A.I.F. ARTILLERY UNIT. WITH HIM IS MAJOR GENERAL ALLEN, COMMANDING PART OF THE NEW GUINEA FORCE. L
An outdoors group portrait of unidentified non commissioned officers (NCOs) of the 10th Battalion. Note two sergeants in the front row (first and seventh from the right), four NCOs in the second row
TX703 Captain Owen Alfred Curtis making his farewell speech to members of D Company, 2/12th Infantry Battalion, before leaving for Australia for discharge under the Five Year Plan. Identified left to
An outdoors group portrait of unidentified officers, NCOs and men of the 8th Infantry Brigade Headquarters. In the front row a soldier (seventh from the left) and a lieutenant (ninth from the left) a