12th Australian Field Bakery
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 7 Jul 1943 Darwin. Cpl REED from 1 Platoon, raking up the wood fire in an oven. AWM photo 053481 | |
 7 Jul 1943, Darwin. Pte Malone Mixing dough AWM photo 053479 | |
Brief History
From August 1942 a bakery detachment was incuded in the Darwin garrison. Expanded in April 1941, it was renamed 2nd Australian Field Bakery based at Vesteys. When further baking units were raised in January 1942, the unit was renamed 12th Australian Field Baking Company, baking in Darwin, Adelaide River and Katherine. The HQ element moved to Adelaide River in March 1942. By the end of 1942 they had detachments at Pine Creek and Mataranka
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