ON BOARD HMT NIEUW AMSTERDAM, AT SEA. 1943-02. RETURN OF 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION AND HEADQUARTERS ...

Place Middle East
Accession Number 050327
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

ON BOARD HMT NIEUW AMSTERDAM, AT SEA. 1943-02. RETURN OF 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION AND HEADQUARTERS AIF (M.E.) TO AUSTRALIA FROM THE MIDDLE EAST. BRIGADIER D. A. WHITEHEAD DSO MC ED, COMMANDING 26TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE, AND OFFICER COMMANDING TROOPS ON BOARD, THANKING, ON BEHALF OF THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING THE DIVISION (LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR LESLIE MORSHEAD, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED), WHO WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND, THE CONCERT PARTY FOR THEIR FINE PERFORMANCE.