The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Wedmore, England. Royal Army Service Corps mine disposal staff supervising the retrieval of the first German acoustic parachute mine made safe by mine disposal officers attached to the Enemy Mining Section of HMS Vernon. This and other mines that German bomber aircraft inadvertantly dropped on land, rather than esturaries and coastal areas, provided critical information about enemy mine technology. A farmer at right is controlling a tractor which is being used to winch the mine onto the truck at left. A parachute is still attached to the mine and the farmers and children are watching proceeding from close by.
Brighton, England. Informal portrait of three members of the Enemy Mining Section (EMS) of HMS Vernon standing at the rear of their work van. The three had just taken part in the retrieval, rendering
Wedmore, England. Informal portrait of Lieutenant Howard Dudley Reid GM and Bar, RANVR, attached to the Enemy Mining Section at HMS Vernon. He is standing beside the first German Type C aerial magneti
Portsmouth, England. The Georgian building at HMS Vernon that was headquarters to the Enemy Mining Section. It was from here that men from the Royal Navy (RN), Royal Australian Navy Volunteer Reser
England. A vacuum pump used by the Enemy Mining Section of HMS Vernon to minimize the internal atmospheric pressure of unexploded German mines. Nicknamed "Hortense", the wheeled unit would be set
RANVR bomb disposal UK. X-ray film processing van belonging to the Enemy Mines Section of HMS Vernon. The van accompanied mine disposal teams to remote sites and allowed disposal experts a limited bu
An unidentified member of the Enemy Mines Section (EMS) of HMS Vernon lashing a net covered floatation bag to a German aerial mine. The rubberized balloons were attached to submerged bombs and mines,
