The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Lieutenant Leonard (Leon) Verdi Goldsworthy GC DSC GM, RANVR (right rear) assisting unidentified officers and ratings of the Enemy Mines Section of HMS Vernon. They are extracting an unexploded German type C magnetic mine from a deep hole it made on landing. Before retrieving it for delousing the crew had to construct a reinforced wooden shaft to gain access with work being limted to short periods at low tide.
Woolwich Arsenal. Lieutenant Leonard (Leon) Verdi Goldsworthy GC DSC GM, RANVR (second from left) assists unidentified officers and ratings of the Enemy Mines Section of HMS Vernon retrieve an unexplo
Wedmore, England. Informal portrait of Lieutenant Commander Leon Verdi Goldworthy, GC DSC GM and Bar, RANVR. The smiling Goldsworthy is holding a fuse he has just removed from the German Type C aer
RANVR bomb disposal UK. Lynton - Exmore Downs. Bomb mine. Leonard (Leon) Verdi Goldsworthy GC DSC GM RANVR at lower right.
Lowestoft. Officers and ratings from the Enemy Mines Section of HMS Vernon. Identified personnel include Lieutenant Commander John Stuart GC GM, RANVR (second from left) and Lieutenant Commander Leo
Lowestoft England. The scattered internal mechanics of a German booby trapped aerial mine lying on a beach. The mine had just been de-loused by officers and ratings from the Enemy Mines Section of HMS
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
