The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An unidentified man standing on the beach next to the enemy mine which exploded on 14 July 1941 resulting in the deaths of two ratings of a RMS (Rendering Mines Safe) party from the Port Adelaide depot.
The two ratings killed were20548 AB William Leonard Edward Danswan and PA439 AB Thomas William Todd. [See images P00805.002 and P00805.003.]
Portrait of PA439 Able Seaman (AB) Thomas William Todd who was killed, with another rating, as part of a RMS (Rendering Mines Safe) party from the Port Adelaide depot, when a mine exploded on the beac
Portrait of 20548 Able Seaman (AB) William Leonard Edward Danswan who was killed with another rating when a mine exploded on the beach at Beachport, South Australia, on 14 July 1941. AB Danswan was bo
Two members of the Royal Australian Navy rendering a Japanese mine that washed up on Melville Island safe. The detonator of these mines usually withdraws when breaking adrift but failed to operate due
Lowestoft England. The scattered internal mechanics of a German booby trapped aerial mine lying on a beach. The mine had just been de-loused by officers and ratings from the Enemy Mines Section of HMS
Lowestoft. Officers and ratings from the Enemy Mines Section of HMS Vernon. Identified personnel include Lieutenant Commander John Stuart GC GM, RANVR (second from left) and Lieutenant Commander Leo
Royal Navy bomb disposal UK. The Fenwicks at home at Paington. The couple were presumably friends of Lieutenant Commander Leonard (Leon) Verdi Goldsworthy GC DSC GM, RANVR an Australian member of t
