Pandanus palms and gum trees against a sunny sky, and, marching with proud, step, come members of the Darwin Battalion (in upper picture). Alongside marches the unit’s mascot, mongrel “Buster”. Darwin is only a few degrees below the equator, so the battalion wear tropical kit, and most discard shirts. A new accomplishment for the versatile A.I.F. is thatching (lower picture). Some farmer members of a pioneer battalion near Darwin showed the boys how to utilise the 12ft. elephant grass with which the camp site is covered. Now it makes roofs for showers, garbage chimps, incinerators.
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Northern Advocate, 14 November 1941, Page 6
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95Pandanus palms and gum trees against a sunny sky, and, marching with proud, step, come members of the Darwin Battalion (in upper picture). Alongside marches the unit’s mascot, mongrel “Buster”. Darwin is only a few degrees below the equator, so the battalion wear tropical kit, and most discard shirts. A new accomplishment for the versatile A.I.F. is thatching (lower picture). Some farmer members of a pioneer battalion near Darwin showed the boys how to utilise the 12ft. elephant grass with which the camp site is covered. Now it makes roofs for showers, garbage chimps, incinerators. Northern Advocate, 14 November 1941, Page 6
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