Image from the Ayrton personal collection. Five RNZAF servicemen pose with a 'Cactus Stove', Bougainville. Handwritten on the reverse "Taken just outside our hut showing the oil burner we use for boiling clothes & scratching a feed together occasionally. The chap at the back is [unreadable] Pickering in case you mistake him for our little xxxx boy."

Image from the WR Chappel personal album collection. View of a number of 'cactus stoves' on a hill in front of a tent with laundry hanging on a washing line in front. Unknown location, possibly Guadalcanal.

No. 5 Squadron personnel boiling water for laundry on 'cactus stoves'. Segond Channel, Espiritu Santo. Neg G.120

Unknown airman using a 'cactus stove', made from a kerosene tin and the tail section of an aerial bomb. Believed to be Espiritu Santo.

General view of the RNZAF camp at Torokina, Bougainville. Note group of airmen waiting for the kettle to boil on the 'cactus stove' beside the tree.