The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A Lee-Enfield rifle and a slouch hat, the puggaree of which appears to bear an anti-aircraft searchlight colour patch, hanging from a sign indicating 'Prohibited Area: out of bounds to all troops'. This smaller sign is above another which reads: 'Commonwealth of Australia, Darwin Quarantine Station. Trespassing is forbidden, penalty twenty five pounds. Persons trespassing while the station is in active quarantine will be apprehended and placed in quarantine.' The Quarantine Station area was used by anti-aircraft searchlight elements deployed to assist in the defence of Darwin from Japanese air attack in the Second World War. These elements included the 65th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Company (65 AASL Coy) Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). On 1 May 1943, RAE anti-aircraft searchlight companies were reallotted to Royal Australian Artillery and retitled 'batteries', 65 AASL Coy becoming 65 AASL Bty.
Fred Hillier standing guard in front of a Lister generator producing power for the operation of a 150 cm anti-aircraft searchlight No 2 (not pictured) of the 65th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Company (65
A group portrait of members, probably of the 65th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Battery (65 AASL Bty). The soldiers identified, left to right, are: Back row: F Skelly; Ray White; unidentified; Scottie (?
A 60 inch 800 candlepower Sperry searchlight of the 65th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Company (65 AASL Coy) Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), later the 65th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Battery (65 AASL Bty
Two members of the 65th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Company (65 AASL Coy), later retitled 65th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Battery (65 AASL Bty), Ray White (left) and Rudy Major, standing in front of the
Informal portrait of two members of the 65th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Company (65 AASL Coy), later retitled 65th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Battery (65 AASL Bty), near Darwin, with a 150 cm anti-aircr
Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1942-43. Station 13, an Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battery (AASL Bty) site at Vabukori in the Port Moresby area belonging to the 73rd AASL Bty. The site is behind a number of
