Photograph

Maker: Bagnall, Frank N

AERIAL TRANSPORT HAS PLAYED A TREMENDOUS PART IN THE NEW GUINEA CAMPAIGN AND AT WAU. CAUSED THE SPEEDY DEFEAT OF THE ADVANCING JAPANESE. HERE A 3 TON TRUCK CHASSIS IS BEING UNLOADED FROM A TRANSPORT P...

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Photograph

Maker: Bagnall, Frank N

AERIAL TRANSPORT HAS PLAYED A TREMENDOUS PART IN THE NEW GUINEA CAMPAIGN, AND AT WAU CAUSED THE SPEEDY DEFEAT OF THE ADVANCING JAPANESE. HERE A JEEP IS BEING BACKED OUT OF A TRANSPORT PLANE AT WAU AER...

014609

Photograph

Maker: Bagnall, Frank N

ALLIED PLANES HAVE FLOWN IN TROOPS FOR THE ADVANCE ON WAU. THESE AUSTRALIANS ARE FROM 2/5TH INFANTRY BATTALION. SECOND FROM THE LEFT IS PRIVATE GAVIN CULHANE. (PHOTOGRAPHER: BAGNALL).

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Photograph

Maker: Clarke,

AN ADMINISTRATION OFFICER, MAJOR VERTIGAN D.O. TRANSLATES INTO PIDGIN THE G.O.C.'S WORDS OF PRAISE TO A NATIVE MEDAL WINNER AT WAU AERODROME, WHERE FOUR MEMBERS OF THE NATIVE CONSTABULARY WERE PRESENT...

014377/11

Heraldry

Maker: Unknown

Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.

REL/15999.005

Digitised Collection

Maker: Department of Defence

AWM2020.8.47

Art

Maker: Hele, Ivor

Landscape, Black Cat Mountain, Wau, New Guinea; mountain in background, sapling left foreground.

ART22551

Art

Maker: Hele, Ivor

Portrait of Brigadier Heathcote Howard Hammer, DSO, VX24325, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, Commanding Officer 15th Brigade, Miteirya Ridge (El Alamein), Bobdubi Ridge, Wau, Salamaua, New Guinea.

ART22539

Art

Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey

Portrait depicting Brigadier Murray John Moten, CBE, DSO and Bar, was in command of a Citizen Military Force unit at the outbreak of war and was second to command the 2/27th Australian Infantry Battal...

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Heraldry

Maker: Unknown

British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.

REL/15999.004

Art

Maker: Hele, Ivor

Bulolo landscape, mountain in background, New Guinea, June 1943.

ART22552

Photograph

BULOLO, NEW GUINEA. 1945-10-17. NATIVES IN THE WAU TOWNSHIP AREA BAGGING WILD PUMPKINS AND CHOKOS, WHICH THEY GATHERED FROM SMALL GARDENS PLANTED BY CIVILIANS BEFORE THE WAR. THE NATIVES ARE WORKING U...

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Photograph

BULOLO, NEW GUINEA. 1945-10-17. NATIVES IN THE WAU TOWNSHIP AREA COLLECTING WILD PUMPKINS AND CHOKOS WHICH HAVE SPREAD FROM SMALL GARDENS PLANTED BY CIVILIANS BEFORE THE WAR. THE NATIVES ARE WORKING U...

098602

Photograph

BULOLO, NEW GUINEA. 1945-10-17. NATIVES SEWING UP BAGS IN FRONT OF THE WAU POWER STATION. THIS POWER STATION WAS WRECKED DURING THE WAU CAMPAIGN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCORCHED EARTH POLICY. THE NATIV...

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Art

Maker: Hele, Ivor

Soldiers from 2/3 Australian Independent Company burying Corporal Hooks, Corporal Buckingham and VX57539 Lance Sergeant A S 'Bonny' Muir, all from 2/3 Independent Company.

ART22515

Heraldry

The colours bear the Battle Honours Rabaul, Wau, South-West Pacific 1942-1943.

REL/00262.001

Art

Maker: Hele, Ivor

Depicts an image of the body of a young, dead Japanese soldier. This is a study for 'Taking Old Vickers Position, Bobdubi Ridge, 28 July 1943'.

ART22509

Heraldry

Maker: Unknown

Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar. Cross and bar engraved reverse with respective years of issue.

REL/15999.001

Photograph

DUMPU, NEW GUINEA. 1944-05-19. NO. 1 AIRCRAFT, A DOUGLAS C47 TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCE, TAKING OFF FOR WAU WITH MEMBERS OF THE 11TH DIVISION. THE 11TH DIVISION, WHICH TOOK...

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Photograph

DUMPU, NEW GUINEA. 1944-05-19. PERSONNEL FROM HEADQUARTERS 11TH DIVISION ABOARD NO. 2 AIRCRAFT, A DOUGLAS C47 TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCE. THE AIRCRAFT, LOADED WITH THE ASSI...

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