The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Port Moresby, New Guinea. "The plumbers and the carpenters, the 'tricians and their likes - They scrounged, and won; and wangled to stage the MORESBY MIXES (MIKES?)! From May, 'way back in forty-two To April, Forty-three we gave a weekly concert - The(n) had our JUBILEE!" The stage in the Rec[reation] Hut on which the Moresby Microbes performed weekly. Note the Union Jack flag hanging above the stage, and the piano to the right of the stage. The microbes presented 50 concerts between 8 May 1942 and 28 April 1943, including the "Jubilee Concert" which was the last. The recreation hut was obtained and furnished by Padre P. Sands, the first RAAF Chaplain in wartime New Guinea, who then formed the Moresby Microbes with Billy Challoner. Padre Sands wrote the verse that accompanied 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. Members of the concert party called the "Moresby Microbes" performing on stage in the Rec[reation] Hut that they performed in weekly. Note the Union Jack flag hanging above t
Port Moresby, New Guinea. "Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Priest, Gather together to our Household feast. Where the week-day's merriment Becomes the Sunday's sacrament." The altar on the stage used by the M
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 reading and writing in the Rec[reation] Hut tha
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. "Who was it gave the carpet And fans? We'll never know! But STEAMSHIPS gave the curtains To brighten up the show!" A view of the stage (with closed curtains) that the concert
Port Moresby, New Guinea. "Who was it gave the carpet And fans? We'll never know! But STEAMSHIPS gave the curtains To brighten up the show!" A view of the stage (with open curtains) that the concert g
