BUT, NEW GUINEA. MAY 1945. FATHER JOHN ALOYSIUS MOGAN OF MELBOURNE, VIC, CELEBRATING MASS FOR 6TH ...

Places
Accession Number 018517
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Maker Driver, Roy
Date made May 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

BUT, NEW GUINEA. MAY 1945. FATHER JOHN ALOYSIUS MOGAN OF MELBOURNE, VIC, CELEBRATING MASS FOR 6TH DIVISION TROOPS ON THE EVE OF THE AMPHIBIOUS OPERATION WHICH RESULTED IN THE DEFEAT OF THE JAPANESE FORCES ON THE WEWAK PENINSULA. FATHER MORGAN LATER BECAME CHAPLAIN GENERAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY.