The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. AUSTRALIANS EXAMINE A THREE INCH MORTAR CAPTURED FROM THE JAPS AFTER THEY HAD BEEN DRIVEN FROM KOMIATUM RIDGE. THE MORTAR WAS A DUTCH TYPE AND HAD PROBABLY BEEN BOUGHT FROM THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. EXAMINING THE MORTAR ARE PTE. ALF. DUROSE, OF BALLARAT, VIC., PTE. STAN ELVY, OF PERTH W.A. AND SGT. TOM. MCILVENE, OF BALLARAT. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK).
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
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. KOMIATUM RIDGE. CPL. STAN HUSTON, OF BLACKBURN, VIC., WITH A JAPANESE LIGHT MACHINE GUN AND PTE. STAN TAYLOR, OF MELBOURNE, WITH A JAPANESE KNEE MORTAR CAPTURED ON KOMIATUM RIDGE. (NEGATIV
NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. A GROUP OF AUSTRALIANS AFTER THEY HAD DRIVEN THE JAPANESE FROM KOMIATUM RIDGE. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK).
NEW GUINEA. HODGES KNOLL. AFTER THE JAPANESE HAD BEEN DRIVEN FROM THIS FOX HOLE AT HODGES KNOLL, NEAR KOMIATUM PTE. JOE THOMAS, OF PERTH, FOUND THIS JAPANESE WATERBOTTLE. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK).
NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. CPL. FRANK YOUNG, OF PORT MORESBY USES A JAPANESE FLAG IN A MANNER WHICH ITS OWNER NEVER INTENDED. THE FLAG WAS FOUND AFTER THE JAPANESE HAD BEEN DRIVEN FROM THE RIDGE. (NE
