The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two members of the 2/33rd Battalion coming out for a spell from their own position which was then just one hundred yards from the Japanese positions. Identified is NX44907 Sergeant Stanley Pretty, of Engadine, NSW (right).
Cut down, Japanese brass 75mm shell case with head stamps for the Nagoya Arsenal. Two brass hooks have been set into the base to allow the case to be suspended as a gong. The shell is engraved around
A wooden hammer (size 210 x 72mm) used to strike the shell case gong RELAWM20443.001. It is made from the same wood as the temple columns and base RELAWM20443.002. The hammer has a small metal ring s
A wooden temple with a hipped roof attached to four six-sided columns attached to a stepped wooden base. The shell case gong RELAWM20443.001 is designed to be suspended from the roof. The thin wood of
An Australian soldier wounded in fighting in the Gona area receives treatment before being taken to a dressing station. This photograph was taken less than one hundred yards from Japanese positions.
An Australian soldier wounded in fighting in the Gona area receives treatment before being taken to a dressing station. This photograph was taken less than one hundred yards from Japanese positions.
These Australians have just come 100 yards back from the front for food during a lull in the fighting. They are part of a company, most likely of the 2/33rd Battalion, which has been 2 days and nights
BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO. 1 JULY 1945. MEMBERS OF C TROOP, 2/4 FIELD REGIMENT, FIRING 25 POUNDERS ONTO JAPANESE POSITIONS FROM THEIR POSITION ON THE VASEY HIGHWAY SOME 200 YARDS FROM GREEN BEACH, DURING THE
Members of 8 Battery, D Troop, 2/4th Field Regiment, laying down a barrage on Japanese positions, from their position on Vasey Highway some 200 yards from Green Beach, during the Oboe 2 Operation. Ide
BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO. 1 JULY 1945. MEMBERS OF 8 BATTERY, D TROOP, 2/4 FIELD REGIMENT, LAYING DOWN A BARRAGE ON JAPANESE POSITIONS, FROM THEIR POSITION ON VASEY HIGHWAY SOME 200 YARDS FROM GREEN BEACH, D
