The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Haling Island. Lieutenant Commander John Stuart Mould GC GM,RANVR (right) assisted by an unidentified RN rating, prepares to dive on a crashed United States Army Airforce (USAAF) bomber aircraft. Working from the Enemy Mines Section of HMS Vernon, Mould help develop the self contained breathing apparatus worn on his back which improved a divers's efficiency and safety during mine recovery operations. The rating is holding a safety rope attached to Moulds' suit and the latter is holding a guide line leading to the submerged crash site. The skein of thicker rope he is holding was probably for pulling parts of the aircraft and unexploded ordnance to the shore.
Haling Island, England. Informal portrait of Lieutenant Commander John Stuart Mould GC GM, RANVR (foreground) assisted by two unidentified members of the Enemy Mines Section of HMS Vernon, as he pre
Lowestoft, England. A team from the Enemy Mines Section of HMS Vernon walking in close single file along an English beach. The Officers and men had just rendered safe a booby-trapped German magnetic/
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
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
England. An unidentified member of the RN Enemy Mining Section of HMS Vernon standing astride a recently recovered German mine lying on the deck of a recovery vessel. He is being assisted out of his d
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
