The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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., PTE. LAURIE MAXTED, OF WARREN N.S.W. PTE. ARTHUR VELLA, OF BALMAIN, N.S.W. AND PTE. WM. MCKINNON, OF LAKE CHARM, VICTORIA, EXAMINE A JAPANESE RIFLE, RESPIRATORS, SMALL ARMS, AMMUNITION, WATER BOTTLES, GRENADES, BOOTS AND POUCHES. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK).
NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. MEMBERS OF THE A.I.F. TEST A JAPANESE TYPE 92 MACHINE GUN CAPTURED ON KOMIATUM RIDGE. THIS TYPE OF MACHINE GUN IS KNOWN TO THE AUSTRALIANS AS THE "WOODPECKER" BACAUSE OF TH
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. MEMBERS OF THE A.I.F. PLAYING CARDS AFTER THEY HAD DRIVEN THE JAPANESE FROM KOMIATUM RIDGE. SITTING ON THE CASE WITH JAPANESE LETTERING IS PTE. WALLY FORD, OF COBURG, VIC.,
NEW GUINEA. HODGES KNOLL. AFTER THE JAPANESE HAD BEEN DRIVEN FROM THIS FOX HOLE AT HODGES KNOLL NEAR KOMIATUM PTE. FRED GEE, OF TAMWORTH, N.S.W., FOUND THESE JAPANESE GRENADES. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK).
