The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Probably , NT. c. June 1943. Informal group portrait of men of the 2/1st North Australia Observers Unit (NAOU) watching Private Clem Muldoon cutting open a bullock carcase with an axe. In this group are Major White, MC, MM, Croix de Guerre; Commanding Officer, Captain Bill Travers (back row, second from right) who won a Military Medal in Tarakan; Corporal 'Inky' Ferguson, MM (probably VX503662 William Clarke Ferguson), an Aboriginal serviceman; Captain Romney Cole MC (back row right) and his brother Lieutenant Neville Cole (bottom row right), ? Muldoon, brother of Clem (front row, third from right). (Donor T. Carty)
Probably Katherine, NT. 1943. Two members of the 2/1st North Australia Observers Unit (NAOU) return from killing a bullock with some meat carried in a portion of the hide from the animal, rifles slun
Members of the 2/1st North Australia Observers Unit (NAOU) stand at ease, rifles held to the ground, taken shortly after their arrival in the Northern Territory. From left to right: Jack Williams of S
Katherine, NT. 1942. Informal portrait of 2/242912 Corporal (Cpl) Theo (Tip) Carty of NSW, 2/1st North Australia Observers Unit (NAOU), colloquially known as the nackeroos. Cpl Carty is wearing a band
Pioneer Beach, NT. c. June 1943. Horses of the 2/1st North Australia Observers Unit (NAOU) at the horse camp at Bynoe Bay, west of Darwin. (Donor T. Carty)
Horsemen and horsebreakers of the 2/1st North Australia Observers Unit (NAOU), known colloquially as the nackeroos, at the horse camp. From left to right: unknown, Bluey Campbell of Moree, NSW; 440005
Pioneer Beach, NT. 28 June 1943 or 6 June 1943. Men of the 2/1st North Australia Observers Unit (NAOU), colloquially known as the Nackeroos came to the assistance of the pilot of Spitfire A58-467 whic
