The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Cut into the side of the “Pimple” on Shaggy Ridge, New Guinea, this kitchen is serving “A” Company 2/9th Infantry Battalion. In the background is the southeast of the ridge from which the Australians attacked on 12 December 1943. Identified from left to right: QX37668 Sergeant Arthur John Ufer; QX6514 Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Augustine Hyatt; NX122828(?) Private (Pte) Marsden; QX1372 Corporal Ivor Francis Lee; QX37544 Pte John William Devantier.
Personnel of the 2/9th Infantry Battalion at Shaggy Ridge, New Guinea, along a narrow track cut into the side of the “Pimple”, which is otherwise too steep to traverse. The photograph looks back towa
SHAGGY RIDGE, NEW GUINEA. 1944-01-20. QX6514 WARRANT OFFICER CLASS 2 T. A. HYATT, COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR OF A COMPANY, 2/9TH INFANTRY BATTALION, PICKING UP A LOAD OF MORTAR BOMBS FROM A DUMP ON THE "P
SHAGGY RIDGE, NEW GUINEA. 1944-01-20. MORTAR BOMBS BEING CHECKED BY MEMBERS OF A COMPANY, 2/9TH INFANTRY BATTALION ALONG THE TRACK ON THE SIDE OF THE "PIMPLE". IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE: QX6514 WARRANT
The graves of NX165473 Lieutenant Samuel Michael McCaughey, killed in action on 29 December 1943, and NX22021 Private John Thomas Buck, killed in action on 27 December 1943, both of the 2/9th Infantry
SHAGGY RIDGE, NEW GUINEA. 1943-12-27. WX4356 WARRANT OFFICER II G. E. MORRIS, MM., ED., OF THE 2/16TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, 21ST AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE WHO WAS WOUNDED IN THE ATTACK ON T
VX120804 Sergeant Thomas Henry Clarke of “A” Company, 2/9th Infantry Battalion writes a message in his dugout on the “Pimple”, Shaggy Ridge, New Guinea. Sergeant Clarke was killed in action in New Gu
