Stretcher bearers pause for a rest in a coconut grove en route to aid stations in the rear.
For they haven’t any halos, only holes slashed in their ears, and their faces worked by tattoos with scratch pins in their hair. Bringing back the badly wounded just as steady as a horse, using leaves to keep the rain off and as gentle as a nurse.– SAPPER H. “BERT” BEROS, 7TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS
Supply carriers paddle a boat bearing supplies.
Carriers transport supplies through trackless jungle.
Boys help unload fuel drums during the Allied offensive.
Natives and Allied troops rest during the New Guinea offensive.
A carrier receives medical attention at an Allied forward outpost.
Many a lad will see his mother and husbands see their wives, just because the fuzzy wuzzy carried them to save their lives. From mortar bombs and machine gun fire or chance surprise attacks, to the safety and the care of doctors at the bottom of the track.-SAPPER H. “BERT” BEROS, 7TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS
New Guinea police form an honor guard during a medal ceremony for native stretcher bearers and supply carriers.
Hundreds of New Guinean stretcher and supply carriers stand at attention as Australian Major General George Alan Vasey thanks them in a medal ceremony.
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