MAJOR-GENERAL A.S. ALLEN, CB., CBE., DSO., VD., GENERAL-OFFICER-COMMANDING 7TH AUSTRALIAN ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1
Accession Number 026750
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Fisher, Thomas
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua
Date made September 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

MAJOR-GENERAL A.S. ALLEN, CB., CBE., DSO., VD., GENERAL-OFFICER-COMMANDING 7TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION (LEFT) AND BRIGADIER K.W. EATHER, COMMANDING 25TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE, (CENTRE). THEY WERE PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE DEEP JUNGLE AT A FORWARD POSITION DISCUSSING AN ATTACK THAT WAS TO BE MADE ON THE JAPANESE POSITIONS. THE THIRD FIGURE IS NX77383 LIEUTENANT DALRYMPLE DISNEY HARRIS (DAL) FAYLE, THE AIDE-DE-CAMP TO GENERAL ALLEN.