BEAUFORT AREA, BORNEO. 1945-08-10. GENERAL SIR THOMAS A. BLAMEY, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, ALLIED LAND ...

Place Asia: Borneo, Brunei Bay Area, Beaufort (Borneo)
Accession Number 113289
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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BEAUFORT AREA, BORNEO. 1945-08-10. GENERAL SIR THOMAS A. BLAMEY, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, ALLIED LAND FORCES, SOUTH WEST PACIFIC AREA, VISITED THE BEAUFORT AREA ON A TOUR OF INSPECTION. HE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS ASSISTANT, LIEUTENANT COLONEL D.H. DWYER AND LIEUTENANT GENERAL F.H. BERRYMAN, CHIEF OF STAFF, ADVANCED LAND HEADQUARTERS. SHOWN, GENERAL BLAMEY (5) WITH MEMBERS OF THE OFFICIAL PARTY DURING THE INSPECTION. IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE: LIEUTENANT COLONEL DWYER (1); MAJOR GENERAL G.F. WOOTTON, GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING 9TH DIVISION (3); BRIGADIER S.H.W.C. PORTER, COMMANDER 24TH INFANTRY BRIGADE (4); LIEUTENANT GENERAL BERRYMAN (7).