The Details Issue Depot

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands, Bougainville
Accession Number ART21450
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 28.7 x 39 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and wash on paper
Maker Abbott, Harold
Place made Pacific Islands: Solomon Islands, Bougainville
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Detail Issue Depot, 224 Australian Supply Depot Platoon. A Brigade provost Corporal controls the traffic while a truck is being unloaded of rations and stores, some being carried away by native boys from Buka and New Guinea. The Detail Issue Depot was built for storing and distributing basic supplies to the various camps across Bougainville Island during the Second World War.