The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NEW GUINEA. A PAPUAN INFANTRY BATTALION PATROL LED BY AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS SETS OUT INTO THE MOUNTAINS FROM KUMBARUM, BELOW SHAGGY RIDGE. THE AUSTRALIANS LEADING THE PATROL, FROM THE LEFT, ARE: SERGEANT W. CALVERT (EX 2/1ST PIONEERS), SERGEANT K. CAMPBELL (W/T SERGEANT), SERGEANT G. CHRISTIE (INTELLIGENCE; EX 2/3RD BATTALION) AND SERGEANT J. LAMBERTON (EX 49TH BATTALION). THE AUSTRALIAN ON THE LEFT IS SERGEANT F. WUST WHO WAS SUFFERING FROM MALARIA AND SERGEANT CHRISTIE HAD BEEN SECONDED TO LEAD HIS SECTION. CHRISTIE'S SECTION WAS COMPOSED OF GOARIBURIE NATIVES.
Hurdcott, Wiltshire, England. 18 December 1918. Group portrait of six soldiers in the Carpenter's Shop at the 12th Training Battalion. Left to right: Private (Pte) Cooke, 16th Battalion (Bn); Sergeant
BISIATABU, NEW GUINEA. 1943-10-26. NX2043 SERGEANT W. WALL OF THE 2/4TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION WHO IS TRANSFERRING TO THE 1ST PAPUAN INFANTRY BATTALION, AS A SECTION OR PATROL LEADER.
BISIATABU, NEW GUINEA. 1943-07-01. "C" COMPANY, 1ST PAPUAN INFANTRY BATTALION RETURNING FROM A PATROL EXERCISE. FOREGROUND, NX67322 SERGEANT F. BENDALL (LEFT) AND LANCE CORPORAL BORASI (NATIVE).
BISIATABU, NEW GUINEA. 1943-10-26. NX5166 SERGEANT J. CONNORS OF THE 2/4TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION WHO IS TRANSFERRING TO THE 1ST PAPUAN INFANTRY BATTALION, AS A SECTION OR PATROL LEADER.
Waiwai, New Guinea. Before a patrol, PX123 Captain T. Grahamslaw, Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU) (right), briefs Sergeant-Major Katue of the Papuan Infantry Battalion (left). Behind
Members of 9/49th Battalion AIF marching to St John's Cathedral for a laying-up of colours ceremony. Identified left to right: CQMS Woodcroft; Captain C J Stead with the King's Colour; Lieutenant T Co
