The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A British officer sitting on a rock on a hill overlooking Slingersfontein Camp. In January, just a few miles away from this camp, an Australian patrol was ambushed and New South Wales suffered its first casualties in the South African (Boer) War.
NADZAB AREA, NEW GUINEA, 1945-06-27. THE MARCH PAST OF SIGNAL TROOPS, PACIFIC ISLANDS REGIMENT, LED BY SGT I. DYDEN. THE SALUTE WAS TAKEN BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, GOVERNOR-GENERA
ORANGE RIVER, SOUTH AFRICA. C 1900. 'HELIOGRAPHING ON A KOPJE, IN DISTANCE ORANGE RIVER, CAMP AND BRIDGE. RECEIVING PARTICULARS OF SKIRMISH AT ZOUTSPANBERG 13 MILES AWAY' THE HELIOGRAPH IS SET ON A HI
THE MEMBERS OF A SOUTH AFRICAN ARMOURED CAR WHICH WAS AMBUSHED WHILE ON A PATROL NEAR THE TURBI HILLS. THE PHOTO SHOWS THEM DISCUSSING THEIR NARROW ESCAPE WITH THEIR OFFICER COMMANDING AND THEIR INTEL
SLINGERSFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA, C 1900. BRITISH TROOPS GUARDING A NATIVE BROUGHT IN FROM THE BOER LINES. (PHOTOGRAPHERS: UNDERWOOD AND UNDERWOOD. ORIGINALS IN AWM ARCHIVAL STORE)
LADYSMITH, NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA, C.1900. A VIEW OF THE TOWN HALL AFTER ITS TOWER WAS STRUCK BY A SHELL FROM "LONG TOM" THE BOER GUN ON UMBULWANA, 5000 YARDS AWAY. AN AFRICAN TREK WAGON AND ITS TEAM ARE
Studio portrait of NX47765 Private (Pte) Andrew Carson Alcorn, 2/30th Infantry Battalion, of Bangalow, NSW. Pte Alcorn enlisted on 3 September 1940 in Newcastle, NSW. The 2/30th Infantry Battalion w
SOUTH AFRICA C.1900. LOCATION UNKNOWN. BOER PRISONERS, GUARDED BY BRITISH AND SOUTH AFRICAN BUSHMEN TROOPS, IN RAILWAY TRUCKS POSSIBLY BOUND FOR A PRISON CAMP. (DONOR B. BLEECHMORE)
