The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 clothes. Left to right: Gunner (Gnr) Les Beckett of Granville, NSW; Gnr Lloyd Moore of Dubbo, NSW; Gnr Neil Walker of Sydney, NSW.
KILIGIA, PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1944-04-03. ALLIED SERVICEMEN FROM UNITS LOCATED NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE TUNOM RIVER AND PERSONNEL FROM HEADQUARTERS 5TH DIVISION USE A CUT DOWN FUEL DRUM RESTING ON EMPTY AM
KIRIWINA, TROBRIAND ISLANDS, PAPUA. 1943-11-27. PILOT OFFICER (PO) J. HOWELL, SEMAPHORE, SA (LEFT), AND PO R. J. WALKER, CAULFIELD, VIC, WASHING THEIR CLOTHES IN AN OLD OIL DRUM FOLLOWING THE MOVE OF
Members of the 42nd Battalion washing their gum boots outside the gum boot store. Infantry and working parties were issued with dry boots from this store before going into the line, and on returning h
A soldier is depicted washing clothes on wash day in a typical scene of army life. He is surrounded by a variety of buckets and tubs, and there is laundry hanging to dry behind him. This work was draw
New Guinea. RAAF members of a Liberator Squadron, wash their clothes in a boiler and dry their shoes near the fire underneath the boiler. Left to right: Flying Officer (FO) Mason Freckler DFM of Mosma
Port Moresby, Papua. 1942. Washing day for Sergeant F. G. Cassidy, a navigator of No. 30 Squadron RAAF. Sgt Cassidy's tent was typical of accommodation available to members of the Squadron at Ward's S
