The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
QX6030 Major Frederick Ewen Cameron Loxton (at left), “A” Company Commander of the 2/9th Infantry Battalion and VX69894 Private Charles Robert Layton of the Battalion Intelligence Section attached to “A” Company are pictured at the Company’s Command Post. Within an hour of this photograph being taken Private Layton was wounded by a shell from a Japanese mountain gun and died before reaching the advanced dressing station. (See also photo at 0700015). Major Loxton was killed in action in New Guinea 11 days later on 21 January 1944.
The tip of the”Pimple” on Shaggy Ridge, New Guinea. The Command Post of “A” Company, 2/19th Infantry Battalion is on the left. QX6030 Major Frederick Ewen Cameron Loxton (at left), “A” Company Comma
Stretcher bearers carrying an unknown Private of “A” Company 2/0th Infantry Battalion (probably VX69894 Private Charles Robert Layton) on a narrow track cut into the side of Shaggy Ridge, New Guinea.
A scene in the Advanced Headquarters, 9th Division, Tobruk. From the left: Lieutenant P. H. Bayley, RNVR; Colonel (Col) R. C. Keller, Commander 3rd Armoured Brigade; WX7 Captain (Capt) Sydney Howard
SHAGGY RIDGE, NEW GUINEA. 1944-01-20. QX6030 MAJOR F. E. C. LOXTON, COMMANDING A COMPANY, 2/9TH INFANTRY BATTALION.
NX112720 Major Edward William Gregory Brigade Major, Headquarters 8th Brigade, at left, with the 8th Brigade Commander NX110380 Brigadier Claude Ewen Cameron, pictured in a Landing Craft Mechanised (L
TOROKINA AREA, BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND. 1944-11-29. NATIVES EVACUATING N201130 PRIVATE K. MARTIN, A BATTLE CASUALTY IN THE ATTACK BY D COMPANY, 9TH INFANTRY BATTALION ON LITTLE GEORGE HILL. PRIVATE MARTIN
