The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 but sometimes critical internal view of a mine before attempting to deactivate it. The vehicle was an Austin K2y Ambulance that had been converted.
Lowestoft, England. A German anti-shipping mine lying on sand above the high water mark of a southern beach. It had been dragged there by a team from the Enemy Mines Section of HMS Vernon for exam
Haling island. Three members of the Enemy Mines Section of HMS Vernon observing mine disposal activities on the Norfolk Broads from an apparently safe distance. Left to right: "Smiffy" (Smith) Royal
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
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 S
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
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/
