The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Darwin, NT. c. October 1941. Members of 5 Platoon, A Company, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion sawing bamboo to be used in constructing bush beds at Winellie Camp. When the unit arrived at the camp, galvanised huts had been erected, but many were without concrete flooring and windows, requiring the first weeks at the camp to be spent finishing off the accommodation. (Donor J. Lane)
Darwin, NT. c. October 1941. Five members of 5 Platoon, A Company, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion constructing bush beds, cutting bamboo to use with the palliasses at Winellie Camp. When the unit arrived
John Ramsbottom (left) [WX14836 Private (Pte) Jack Kenneth Ramsbottom, later known as John Kenneth Lane], and WX9226 Pte Harry ‘Sparrow’ Tysoe, both of 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion cutting bamboo to use
WX8707 Private (Pte) Frank Nazzari (rear) and John Ramsbottom [WX14836 Private (Pte) Jack Kenneth Ramsbottom, later known as John Kenneth Lane], both of 5 Platoon, A Company, 2/4th Machine Gun Battali
John Ramsbottom [WX14836 Private Jack Kenneth Ramsbottom, later known as John Kenneth Lane and John Lane], 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion, cutting mangrove saplings to use for beds at Winellie Camp. When t
Private (Pte) Charlie R Bird [WX9017 Pte Charles Roland Bird], 5 Platoon, A Company, 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion on an A frame design bed which the unit constructed for Winellie Camp. A lateral strip of
NT. 2 February 1943. Members of the RAAF sawing timber for the construction of huts at a RAAF base near Darwin.
