The New Guinea Air Warning Wireless, also known as the "New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company", "NGAWW", or "The Spotters", was a unique signals unit of the Australian Army formed in January 1942 in
NGAWW signallers near Nassau Bay, July 1943
Kirkwood's Spotter's Post at Salamaua
Spotters from the New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company reading mail at Rouna Falls in Papua in May 1942
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New Guinea Volunteer Rifles
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The New Guinea Volunteer Rifles was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was initially raised as a unit of the Militia from white Australian and European expatriates in New Guinea upon the
New Guinea Air Warning Wireless
…the outer stations were supervised by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). In addition, there were a number of spotter stations set up and manned by the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, as well as a few civilian stations reporting to ANGAU. In March the crew of a shot-down Japanese bomber were engaged from an observation post at Gona…
The Salamaua platoon of the NGVR on parade in April 1940.
The territories of Papua and New Guinea
NGVR officers, 1940
View of the Japanese landing beach in Rabaul