The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NEW GUINEA KOMIATUM RIDGE. AMONG EQUIPMENT HURRIEDLY ABANDONED BY THE JAPANESE WHEN THEY RETREATED FROM KOMIATUM RIDGE TOWARDS SALAMAUA, WERE TWO-TOED RUBBER SNEAK BOOTS USED BY THE ENEMY PATROLS. WARRANT OFFICER JAMES FOWLER, OF TOORONGA, VIC., HOLDING ONE OF THE BOOTS.
NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. PTE. FRED MARTIN OF DUNEDOO, N.S.W., SHOWS A NATIVE CARRIER, DARSU, THREE-INCH SHELLS LEFT BEHIND BY THE JAPANESE WHEN THEY ABANDONED KOMIATUM RIDGE. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK).
NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. A.I.F. AND NATIVE CARRIERS RESTING ON THE SUMMIT OF KOMIATUM RIDGE FROM WHICH THEY HAD DRIVEN THE JAPANESE. IN THE DISTANCE IS SALAMAUA WHICH THE ALLIED TROOPS HAVE SINCE I
NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. IN THEIR HURRIED RETREAT FROM KOMIATUM RIDGE THE JAPANESE LEFT BEHIND WHAT FOR THEM WAS A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF EQUIPMENT. PTE. LES. HARGREAVES OF BELLEVUE HILL, N.S.W., P
NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. CPL. CHARLES LETTERS, OF SYDNEY AND CPL. FRANK YOUNG, OF PORT MORESBY, DISPLAY A JAPANESE FLAG FOUND ON KOMIATUM RIDGE AFTER THE ENEMY HAD BEEN FORCED FROM IT. CPL. JOE BAR
NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. ENTRANCE TO THE HUT OF THE JAP COMMANDER AT KOMIATUM RIDGE FROM WHICH HE AND HIS TROOPS WERE DRIVEN BY THE AUSTRALIANS DURING THE ADVANCE ON SALAMAUA. IN THE ENTRANCE TO TH
NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. PTE. STAN ELVY OF PERTH, W.A., WITH A THREE INCH MORTAR ABANDONED BY THE JAPANESE AT KOMIATUM RIDGE. THE MORTAR WAS OF A DUTCH MANUFACTURE AND IT HAD PROBABLY BEEN BROUGHT
