The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bert Keown (left) and Les Walker (right) are first in line of F Company 5th Battalion AIF as they wait for vaccination at Mena camp.
BANGKOK, THAILAND. 1945-09. FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR, HAVING BEEN ISSUED WITH NEW UNIFORMS, WAIT AT THE RECEPTION CAMP AT THE LAW UNIVERSITY FOR EVACUATION TO AUSTRALIA. LEFT TO RIGHT: FLYING OFFICER E
A 5th Divisional Headquarters motor car, the first to enter the town after its final capture by troops of the 5th Division. Identified, left to right: Lieutenant (Lt) Jerry Walker [Herbert “Jerry” Wal
The AIF camp at Mena showing the tent lines of the 7th Battalion (left), 6th Battalion (centre) and 5th (right, still being erected). To the rear of the image are (from left) the YMCA building, the bo
The AIF camp at Mena showing the tent lines of the 6th Battalion and a little of the 5th and 7th Battalions' tent lines to the left and right. The boxing stadium is on the left rear (white structure).
Dutch New Guinea. Time off for washing, at a forward camp using a drum of hot water, a bucket to wash and a dish as a clothes basket, a line between palm trees and a bamboo pole for a prop to dry the
After striking camp, members of the 1st Battalion wait to march out of Mena camp, outside Cairo, to entrain for Alexandria, where they would embark for the Gallipoli Peninsula.
