The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Kumbarum, New Guinea. At a mobile surgical team's headquarters, a tattooed NX55294 Private F. Ellis of D Company, 2/33 Australian Infantry Battalion, and of Marrickville, NSW (top bed), gets a light for his cigarette from QX35024 Lieutenant M. Cameron of HQ 10th Australian Advanced Ordnance Depot, and of Wavell Heights, Qld. This is the most forward medical post in the battle area. The top bed consists of a stretcher on a wooden frame of rough hewn branches lashed together with strips of twine.
Kumbarum, New Guinea. At a mobile surgical team's headquarters wounded are shown on the earthen floor and in rough beds. The top bed consists of a stretcher on a wooden frame of rough hewn branches la
New Guinea. Private G. Hull of North Melbourne, Vic, lights a cigarette for a wounded Japanese prisoner of war (POW), lying on a stretcher at a mobile surgical team's headquarters at Kumbarum.
New Guinea. Private (Pte) Tom Kingsley of Texas, Qld, offers a drink in a mug helping to revive Pte Colin Fishner of Blanchetown, SA, resting on a rough bed constructed of branches lashed together on
Private J. McAlpine of Toowoomba, Qld, Sergeant B. Waldock of Perth, WA, Sgt Bill Thomas of Albany, WA, and Pte Bill Garbett of Kalgoorlie, WA, cooking meals for patrols which pass through this forwar
Kumbarum, New Guinea. This is the most forward medical post in the battle area, headquarters of a mobile surgical team. Private H. Asser of Semaphore, SA, shaves Corporal G. Nottle of Snowtown, Adelai
Myola 1, Papua, 1942-10. Wounded soldiers, possibly members of the 2/33rd Infantry Battalion, sit and lie in one of the tents that serves as a hospital ward at the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2
