The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Wewak, New Guinea. 24 May 1945. Private Roy McGregor of Rockhampton, Qld (left), hands a signal message to Corporal Bill Dennett of Lindfield, NSW, in a dugout after the amphibious landing on Wewak Peninsula. Another soldier rests on a stretcher bed under a canvas shelter behind them.
Wewak, New Guinea. 24 May 1945. Signalman C. Reynolds of St Kilda, Vic, operating a switchboard in a dugout position within three quarters of an hour of the amphibious landing on Wewak Peninsula. An i
In the confined space of a dugout in Korea, an unidentified soldier rests on his stretcher bed. Another bed can be seen below him.
Wewak, New Guinea. 24 May 1945. Trooper R. McFarlane of SA, has a hurried meal of fresh bread, the first the troops received after their amphibious landing on the Wewak Peninsula.
An unidentified Australian soldier standing outside a dugout situated at the base of a ridge on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Canvas shade cloths cover the shelter, and the entrances of other dugouts dotte
Kurdistan. 1919. A station of `D' Troop, 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, erected on the steep side of a mountain. A canvas shelter has been placed on the mast above the
Three members of 3 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) participating in training exercises. From the shelter of a foxhole an unidentified man (left) prepares to drop a shell into the tube
