THE GRAVE OF CAPTAIN BRIAN COLDEN ANTILL POCKLEY, THE FIRST MEDICAL OFFICER KILLED IN THE 1914-18 ...

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Accession Number 097147
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made Pacific Islands: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula, Rabaul Area, Rabaul
Date made 25 September 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

THE GRAVE OF CAPTAIN BRIAN COLDEN ANTILL POCKLEY, THE FIRST MEDICAL OFFICER KILLED IN THE 1914-18 WAR, IN THE RABAUL CEMETERY. MANY HEADSTONES IN THE AIF SECTION OF THE RABAUL CEMETERY WERE BROKEN BY THE JAPANESE AND USED IN PILLBOX DEFENCE AND FOR OTHER ODD PURPOSES.