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
The Salamaua platoon of the NGVR on parade in April 1940.
View of the Japanese landing beach in Rabaul
Australians retreating from Rabaul cross the Warangoi / Adler River in the Bainings Mountains, on the eastern side of the Gazelle Peninsula.
The 4th New Guinea Infantry Battalion was a battalion of the Australian Army. One of four infantry battalions raised in New Guinea, 4 NGIB was formed in the final stages of World War II to fight again
New Guinea troops on patrol, July 1945