The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Sergeant Frank J Parmiter of Coburg, Vic, and Corporal Ivan G Pritchard, of Kensington, NSW, spotters with the New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company (NGAWW), at work beside their AWA radio at an observation post (or spotting station) in jungle between Nassau Bay and Mubo, in the Dobodura Sub Sector of the network. The AWA teleradio 3BZ was a civilian radio, the military use of which was limited to NGAWW and Coastwatchers, who had no other equipment available to them at the outbreak of hostilities. Parmiter was later awarded the Military Medal (MM) on 27 April 1944.
Sergeant Frank J Parmiter of Coburg, Vic, and Corporal Ivan G Pritchard, of Kensington, NSW, spotters with the New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company (NGAWW), at work beside their AWA radio at an obs
Radio transmitter and receiver 3BZ used by spotters of the New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company (NGAWW). The AWA Teleradio 3A was designed and introduced into service in 1935 and continued until 19
Lunga, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 1943-10. The base radio station dugout of the Coastwatchers Ken network in the Solomon Islands. The equipment operated by this station is (left in rack) an HRO RAS
YEMA, PAPUA, C. 1943. THE OLD YEMA SPOTTING STATION, USED BY SPOTTERS IN THE NEW GUINEA AIR WARNING WIRELESS COMPANY (NGAWW). THE STATION WAS MOVED TO A NEW SITE 1943-11-21.
A wireless telegraphist operator, Sergeant (Sgt) William 'Billy' Bennett, MM, British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force (BSIPDF), operating an AWA 3BZ teleradio at the Seghe coastwatchers' st
GUSAP RIVER REGION, NEW GUINEA, C. 1943. LIEUTENANT BRIAN HOPKINS, OFFICER-IN-CHARGE OF GUSAP SUB-SECTOR, STANDING OUTSIDE THE HUTS USED AS HEADQUARTERS FOR THE GUSAP SPOTTERS IN THE NEW GUINEA AIR WA
