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  1. Albury Station, January 1943

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    Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey

    Depicts a large number of sailors, officers and soldiers on the Albury Railway station platform with their luggage and bags, during the Second World War. This railway station is the scene of great com...

    ART21560

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    Maker: Friend, Donald

    Troops by their thousands passed through Albury. The change of railway gauges at the border meant changing trains, and the long Albury platform became familiar territory to troops who frequently had t...

    ART23059

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    Troop train

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    Maker: Friend, Donald

    Depicts exhausted Australian soldiers asleep in the carriage of a railway train at Albury, New South Wales during the Second World War. In 1942, Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a g...

    ART23216