The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Reserve (RANVR), and men attached from other allied services, were sent out to render safe unexploded German mines and bombs dropped on land or at sea.
A group portrait of the Royal Naval and civilian personnel based at HMS Vernon, Portsmouth. Identified from left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) John Stuart Mould, GC, GM, Royal Australian Naval V
An overhead view of HMS Vernon, Portsmouth. During the Second World War, it became the main Royal Naval base responsible for mine disposal and mine countermeasures. The low building in the centre is c
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
The entrance to HMS Vernon. During the Second World War, it became the main Royal Naval base responsible for mine disposal and mine countermeasures. This image is from the collection of Lieutenant (Lt
Royal Navy bomb disposal UK. The Fenwicks at home at Paington. The couple were presumably friends of Lieutenant Commander Leonard (Leon) Verdi Goldsworthy GC DSC GM, RANVR an Australian member of t
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) personnel on the parade ground at Lancing College. An outpost of HMS King Alfred, the RNVR training establishent at Hove, the school was taken over in 1941 and re
