The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Charters Towers, Qld. Two members of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) trying to sleep under the Barracks Hut at the Charters Towers RAAF Wireless Telegraphy Station. When the heat became unbearable the WAAAFs would take their folding beds under the huts, hoping for a breeze so they could sleep. Members of the WAAAF working at the Townsville wireless station volunteered to travel to Charters Towers to open this telegraphy station.
Brown leather case for Ensign Midget Model 22 camera. The case has an adjustable carry strap and a flap opening secured by a press stud fastening. In faint writing underneath the flap is '92530 RAAF'
Ensign Midget Model 22 camera. This folding camera takes 35 mm x 45 mm exposures on Ensign Lukos size E10 roll film. The lens is attached to a folding paper bellows and extends from the camera body al
Charters Towers, Qld. The Charters Towers RAAF Wireless Telegraphy Station Signals Office. A group of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) working at the Townsville wireless station volu
Charters Towers, Qld. The Charters Towers RAAF Wireless Telegraphy Station Recreation Hut. A group of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) working at the Townseille wireless station volu
Charters Towers, Qld. Charlotte Freshwater (left) and Freda Walker Jones of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) doing their laundry outdoors in a wood burning copper at the Charters Tow
KIRIWINA, TROBRIAND ISLANDS, PAPUA. C. 1943-12. THE REVEREND R. S. CORRELL OF ADELAIDE, SA, CHAPLAIN, CONDUCTING A SERVICE AT NO. 14 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY STATION RAAF IN THE OPEN AIR HUT.
TOWNSVILLE, QLD, 1943-03. GROUP OF MEMBERS OF NO. 1 WIRELESS UNIT, AUSTRALIAN JAPANESE KANA INTERCEPT WIRELESS OPERATORS, SITTING ON THE BEACH. FRONT ROW: BOB BOTTERILL (AIF), BOB SATCHELL (AN ARMY OB
GAWLER, SA, 1945. GALVANISED IRON HUT THAT SERVED AS THE LIVING QUARTERS FOR THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHISTS OF B SHIFT, WHO WORKED AT THE RAAF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY (W/T) TRANSMITTER STATION ON THE RAAF BAS
