The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
New Guinea. When Gunner (Gnr) Jack Mackney of Casino, NSW, and Gnr Syd Prisk of Willow Tree, NSW, wanted to clear a small tract of land to erect a tent, they borrowed a native plough belonging to 'Wakarmamo' a native Javanese boy, who shows them how to use it. These ploughs used by the natives are carved from wood and are very primitive. Gunner Mackney is driving the jeep. Number on side 79352. The censor has deleted the numbers from the front of the jeep.
New Guinea. Soldiers clearing and ploughing land with the aid of a Jeep motor vehicle and a native plough. Driving the Jeep is Gunner Jack Mackney of Casino, NSW, on the plough is Gunner Syd Prisk of
New Guinea. A jeep negotiates a 'corduroy' road across a swamp. The only successful way of building a road in this type of country. The road is made by placing coconut logs across the swamp, and needs
Studio portrait of 63788 Gunner (Gnr) William Edmund Sager, 1st Division, Australian Field Artillery. Gnr Sager enlisted on 12 February 1918 and died of sickness, 26 October 1918. He was born at Leich
Dutch New Guinea. Corporal Les McKay of Albury, NSW, compares his rifle to the 'goose-gun' of Antonius, a Javanese native boy, who makes his living by shooting wild geese in the swamplands.
Dutch New Guinea. Time off for washing, at a forward camp using a drum of hot water, a bucket to wash and a dish as a clothes basket, a line between palm trees and a bamboo pole for a prop to dry the
An Australian Battery in the Uria Valley covers the Japanese road to Madang. Gunner (Gnr) E. Beacon of Albury, NSW, Gnr H. Pentland of Warragul, Vic, Gnr E. Gray of Albury, NSW, Gnr J. Newton of Irymp
