The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The camouflaged Signals Office area at the Main Divisional defensive Command Post has been set up in an and around buildings of an abandoned Korean village . The Exchange and Signals Office vehicle (TEV, Telegraph vehicle) is under substantial camouflage netting in the foreground. The Cipher Office is just visible behind it, and at right (with vertical aerial) is the CV47, step up wireless vehicle on Command Voice Net.
Some of the camouflaged huts abandoned by the Germans and subsequently occupied by Australian Corps Headquarters near Barleux. The camouflage netting is erected between the ground and the roof edge.
At the Main Division, in its defensive Command Post, a control set on Command Voice Net, is installed in this bunker on a hill. The WS 52 is remoted into G (Ops) and is power fed up to the bunker from
A well camouflaged battery of the 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade. Several days earlier German troops had launched a determined but fruitless attempt to break down resistance in this area. On
Richard Ashton, an artist with the Military History Section, painted a number of works related to Australia's defences during the Second World War. This work depicts anti aircraft guns in place at Mi
Two Australian soldiers and an officer, all unidentified, at a camouflaged gun position of the 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade. The position has been camouflaged with camouflage netting and br
A Vickers Light Anti-Aircraft Mk1 tank, armed with 4 x 7.92mm Besa machine guns. Camouflage netting is bundled up on the end of the vehicle which is marked with the numbers 99 and 2033.
