The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS LAYING BARBEDWIRE ENTANGLEMENTS THROUGH THE "STILTS" OF A NATIVE VILLAGE. COASTAL NATIVES OF NEW GUINEA BUILD VILLAGES THIS WAY BECAUSE OF AN AGE OLD BELIEF THAT IT WOULD AFFORD PROTECTION FROM HEAD-HUNTERS FROM THE MOUNTAINS.
PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS LAYING BARBEDWIRE ENTANGLEMENTS THROUGH THE "STILTS" OF A NATIVE VILLAGE. COASTAL NATIVES OF NEW GUINEA BUILD VILLAGES THIS WAY BECAUSE OF AN AGE O
PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-07-20. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS LAYING BARBEDWIRE ENTANGLEMENTS AMONG THE "STILTS" OF A NATIVE VILLAGE.
PAPUA, NEW GUINEA, 1942-07-20. "ALL PRESENT AND CORRECT, SIR". AN AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY PLATOON PARADES FOR RIFLE INSPECTION IN A PAPUAN COASTAL VILLAGE. THE STILTS OF THE NATIVE HUTS ARE IN THE SHALLOW
KONEKARU, PAPUA. 1943-12-02. GENERAL VIEW OF A SECTION OF THE VILLAGE. THIS VILLAGE WAS BUILT ESPECIALLY TO ACCOMMODATE THE EVACUATED NATIVES FROM PAROBADA VILLAGE IN THE PORT MORESBY AREA.
Near Villers-Bretonneux, France. 2 May 1918. Australians in a support trench protected by newly erected barbedwire entanglements, near Villers-Bretonneux. The smoke above the village is from a burning
Row of houses in the 'Main street' of a village. The local natives were evacuated from two coastal villages for their own safety and operational reasons. This photograph was published in the Australia
