Explore items from Melanesia

BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS BOWEN. COMMISSIONED ON 9TH NOVEMBER 1942 BOWEN SPENT HER WAR SERVICE IN NEW GUINEA WATERS. AFTER SOME POST WAR WORK IN MID-PACIFIC WATERS SHE RETURNED TO ..

RABAUL, NEW GUINEA, C.1914. GERMAN GOVERNMENT HOUSE AFTER TAKEOVER BY THE AUSTRALIAN NAVY AND MILITARY EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (AN&MEF), WITH AUSTRALIAN GUARDS OUTSIDE. (ORIGINAL ALBUM HELD IN AWM ..

HOLSWORTHY INTERNMENT CAMP, NSW, C.1914. PRISONERS FROM NEW GUINEA AND NEIGHBOURING GERMAN TERRITORIES AT HOLSWORTHY OUTSIDE ONE OF THE BARRACKS. (ORIGINAL ALBUM HELD IN AWM ARCHIVE STORE). (DONOR: ..

PROBABLY HOLSWORTHY INTERNMENT CAMP, NSW, C.1914. GERMAN PRISONERS NEWLY ARRIVED FROM NEW GUINEA INSIDE LARGE TENT. (ORIGINAL ALBUM HELD IN AWM ARCHIVE STORE). (DONOR: R.A. SANDS)

BRITISH ATOMIC TESTS ON MONTE BELLO ISLANDS, WA, OCTOBER 1952. HMS PLYM THE "GUINEA PIG" SHIP ON WHICH THE ATOMIC BOMB WAS EXPLODED. PLYM WAS COMPLETELY VAPOURISED, NOT A TRACE OF HER WAS EVER ..

MACASSAR, CELEBES ISLANDS 1945-09-24. OCCUPATION OF MACASSAR BY THE 2/27TH BATTALION. WHEN THE CITY WAS OCCUPIED BY AUSTRALIAN TROOPS, MANY ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR AND CIVILIAN INTERNEES WERE ..

SORONG, DUTCH NEW GUINEA WWII. JAPANESE VESSEL BURNING NEAR SORONG

BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS KATOOMBA. COMPLETED IN DECEMBER 1941 KATOOMBA SAW ACTION IN THE DARWIN AREA AND WAS HOLED IN A COLLISION WITH THE AMERICAN OILER PECOS IN JANUARY 1942. ..

MILNE BAY, NEW GUINEA, 1944-03. RAN AND RAAF DOCTORS AND NURSES AT THE BASE HOSPITAL, MILNE BAY. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN. 1914-09-12. GROUP OF NATIVE SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT FOR THE GERMANS AT SIMPSON HARBOUR DURING THE CAPTURE OF RABAUL FROM THE GERMANS BY THE AUSTRALIAN NAVY AND MILITARY ..

MILNE BAY, NEW GUINEA, 1944-03-08. A VIEW OF THE NAVAL SHIPPING BASE. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

The burial at sea of 121 Able Seaman (AB) Robert David Moffatt, Naval Brigade (Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force), who died of wounds sustained during the battle of Bitapaka, aged ..