TARAKAN, BORNEO 1945-09-26. THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY EDUCATION SERVICE ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION ...

Place Asia: Borneo, Tarakan
Accession Number 119441
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Rainsford, Keith Carr
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

TARAKAN, BORNEO 1945-09-26. THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY EDUCATION SERVICE ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION WHICH WAS JUDGED BY VX128013 SERGEANT GEORGE J. BROWNING, MILITARY HISTORY SECTION, AND UNITED STATES ARMY SERGEANT KEN NAKANO OF THE ALLIED TRANSLATOR AND INTELLIGENCE SERVICE. THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN SHORTLY AFTER THE EXHIBITION WAS DECLARED OPEN BY LIEUTENANT OAKES OF THE ARMY EDUCATION SERVICE. GEORGE BROWNING IN LATER YEARS CONTRIBUTED TO THE RESTORATION AND RETURN TO DISPLAY OF SEVERAL DIORAMAS AT THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL AT CANBERRA.