The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Port Moresby, New Guinea. "Here's to old BILL, the stooge of the show. At concerts or billiards he made the thing go - " Portrait of Billy Challoner, who helped Padre P. Sands, the first RAAF Chaplain in wartime New Guinea, formed a concert party called the "Moresby Microbes". The Microbes presented 50 weekly concerts between 8 May 1942 and 28 April 1943 (including the "Jubilee Concert" which was the last). Padre Sands wrote the verse which accompanies each photograph in an album given to LAC Frank Lansdowne, a member of the Moresby Microbes, now held in the Private Records collection at the Australian War Memorial. (Donor J. Treseder)
Port Moresby, New Guinea. "And here's his offsider, called HARE, the boong! His grin is infectious while he gets the washing done!" Portrait of Billy Challoner and his assistant, local man, Hare. Bill
Port Moresby, New Guinea. "Hare at ironing did everything nice But took a poor view of the Padre's sur-plice!" Portrait of Hare, Billy Challoner's local assistant. Billy Challoner helped Padre P. Sand
Port Moresby, New Guinea. "Hare at ironing did everything nice But took a poor view of the Padre's sur-plice!" Portrait of Hare, Billy Challoner's local assistant. Billy Challoner helped Padre P. Sand
Port Moresby, New Guinea. "Here's the MARBLE STAIRCASE Entrance to the show Wipe your feet upon the mat, And give your nose a blow!" The stairs leading to the entrance of the Rec[reation] Hut which wa
Port Moresby, New Guinea. "For billiards and reading And writing, we come - Be blowed to the Black-out! The Rec Hut's our Home." Two members of the RAAF playing billiards in the Rec[reation] Hut that
Port Moresby, New Guinea. "Here's the MARBLE STAIRCASE Entrance to the show Wipe your feet upon the mat, And give your nose a blow!" Two men standing at the top of the stairs leading to the entrance o
