The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of RAF Regiment troops lining up for breakfast on a beach in Greece, 12 October 1944. The cooks are preparing breakfast using a portable stove, fired with a petrol fuelled Hydra No. 1 Burner Unit. Army cooks have to be resourceful and flexible; large rocks and boxes have been used here to protect the makeshift `kitchen' from wind and sand. The RAF Regiment, wearing khaki battledress with RAF Regiment flash over the RAF insignia, are queuing with mugs and dixies in hand.
Informal portrait of army cooks preparing a meal on a portable stove, in Egypt, May 1942. Portable stoves, such as the Soyer stove, are fired up by a Hydra Burner Unit. In this photo you can see one o
Unidentified cooks with the 16th New Zealand Field Artillery Regiment serve up hot food and drinks into the dixies and mugs of waiting soldiers. They have set up an outdoor mess on a snowy hillside i
Korea, c. 1951-03. Informal group portrait of the cooks of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), together with the Officer Commanding C Company, 2/40097 Captain Sverre Witzo ('Fred'
Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) queue up for a meal which will be dished out into their dixies and mugs. The line of men is meandering through an abandoned villa
Greece. 13 October 1944. Greek collaborationists, on their arrival in a prison camp truck, were searched by members of the RAF Regiment. About 1200 members of a Greek movement, that has been assisting
Korea, c. 1950-11. With mugs and dixies in hand, members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), queue up at a mess parade in the countryside. At left, battalion cooks dole out por
