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Bulldog-Wau Road, New Guinea. 1943-07-14. Army engineers of Headquarters Royal Australian Engineers, 11th Australian Division, AIF, setting blasting charges at 21 mile point, during construction of ..

Aitape, New Guinea. 2 March 1945. Private Jack Carlson of Melbourne, Vic, resting while on duty at the water's edge keeping a constant watch for signs of any enemy activity

At sea. Great Australian Bight. c. 1942. Spray covers the bow of the RAN HMAS Moresby as she ploughs through the sea, probably between 1941-12 and 1943, while she was patrolling waters around the ..

Bitapaka, New Britain. 1915-01-05. Group portrait of RAN members of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) standing behind a pipe mine which they have been digging out on ..

Port Moresby, Papua. 1944-08-05. Buglers of the Royal Papuan Constabulary playing "The Last Post" at the opening of the Bomana War Cemetery

Port Moresby, Papua. 1944-08-05. Major General B. M. Morris DSO, Commander of the Australian - New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU), making a speech at the opening of the Bomana War Cemetery

AERIAL VIEW OF ORIGINAL KARRANA BASE SHOWING VAILALA RIVER AND NARRAWA CREEK

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1943. Scarred and burnt out earth and trees, possibly the result of a fire in a United States bomb dump. A RAAF Bomb Disposal Unit helped to extinguish the blaze and to ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1943. Group portrait of all the members of a RAAF Bomb Disposal Unit standing with unexploded bombs (UXBs), in front of a shed with a sign stating "Bomb Disposal Sqn. Keep ..

NX142537 Signalman James (Jim) Pashley, a member of a signals unit attached to the 16th Brigade, listens to a radio under a makeshift cover on the Kokoda Track. (Original housed in AWM Archive ..

Gusika, Finschhafen area, New Guinea. 1944-03. Trucks and tents set up at the camp of 17 Field Hygiene Company. In the foreground are knapsack sprays carrying a special oil. They are used to spray ..

Pacific Area. c. 1942. A row of anti aircraft shells ready to be loaded into the gun in the background