The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NEW GUINEA. THIS NATIVE VILLAGE, HANUABADA, MEANING "BIG VILLAGE," HAD A PRE- WAR POPULATION OF 2,700 ROOFED WITH CUNAI GRASS OR BIRI PALMS, THE HUTS HAVE TO BE REROOFED AT THREE YEAR INTERVALS. PRACTICALLY ALL THE HUTS HAVE HAD ROOFING MATERIALS REMOVED IN CASE OF FIRE. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN).
NEW GUINEA. THE NATIVE VILLAGE OF HANAUBADA, PORT MORESBY AFTER IT HAD BEEN SWEPT BY FIRE, WHICH IT IS BELIEVED WAS ACCIDENTAL. THIS WAS THE BIGGEST VILLAGE OF "SALTWATER" LOCALS IN PAPUA AND HAD A PO
NEW GUINEA. THE NATIVE VILLAGE OF HANAUBADA, PORT MORESBY AFTER IT HAD BEEN SWEPT BY FIRE, WHICH IT IS BELIEVED WAS ACCIDENTAL. THIS WAS THE BIGGEST VILLAGE OF "SALTWATER" LOCALS IN PAPUA AND HAD A PO
NEW GUINEA. WITHIN A FEW HOURS AFTER A FIRE HAD SWEPT THROUGH THE NATIVE VILLAGE OF HANAUBADA, WHICH HOUSED 3,000 NATIVES, THE MEN HAD ERECTED PALM THATCHED LEANTO'S AND WERE ISSUED WITH TENTS. THE LO
A 12-month military aid project to a civilian community in Malaysia by British and Australian engineers will end this month when the Australian Second Field Troop in Malaysia returns to Terendak Garri
The constructions sounds of hammering and sawing took over from the sounds of battle in the village of Binh Ba, five miles north of the Australian Task Force, this week. Civil affairs workers and engi
German 'Lederschulzmaske' (Leather protection mask) gas mask. Sometimes referred to as a model 1917 after the year of its introduction. The mask is made from a single piece of chrome-tanned sheepskin
