The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
KIARIVU, NEW GUINEA, 1945-08-15. PRIVATE J.A. GITTENS (1) AND PRIVATE G. WILLIAMSON (2), MEMBERS OF 2/7 INFANTRY BATTALION, EXAMINING A BLAST BOMB THAT FAILED TO EXPLODE WHEN THROWN IN A COMPANY PERIMETER THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. IT HAS SIX FULL STICKS OF PICRIC ACID BOUND WITH CANE AROUND A JAPANESE HAND GRENADE AND HAS CONSIDERABLE BLAST EFFECT.
WEWAK AREA, NEW GUINEA, 1945-07-14. SAPPERS OF 2/14 FIELD COMPANY, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS, ATTACHED 2/8 INFANTRY BATTALION, VIEW THE RESULTS OF THEIR WORK. A JAPANESE BUNKER NEAR THE SUMMIT OF "TH
Informal portrait of 3/5585 Private (Pte) Ted Blyth, of Moama, NSW (left), and 2/8607 Pte Bill Hardy, of Auburn, NSW (right), both of 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR). Pte Blyth is
Battambang, Cambodia, 1993-05-25. Informal group portrait of the night guard at the barracks occupied by soldiers serving with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). The two so
3177505 Private (Pte) Donald Stanley (Don) Greentree, Mortar Platoon, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) in the crew commander’s position of an M113A1 armoured personnel carrier (APC)
3177505 Private (Pte) Donald Stanley (Don) Greentree, Mortar Platoon, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), checks the magazine of his L1A1 self-loading rifle (SLR) while sitting in the
Studio portrait of Lieutenant Byron Fitzgerald Nicholas, 24th Battalion of Trafalgar, Victoria. A school teacher prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Persic (A34) on 28 May 1915
