Sydney NSW. RAN and Army personnel guarding German soldiers and sailors captured by the AN&MEF in ...

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Accession Number P10371.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1914
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Sydney NSW. RAN and Army personnel guarding German soldiers and sailors captured by the AN&MEF in German New Guinea. On 11 September 1914 on Bita Paka road, Kabakaul, New Britain, Sergeant Mauderer, front row left with his arm in a sling, was being treated by Captain (Capt) Brian Colden Antill Pockley, Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC), Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) for his injury. During treatment the latter was mortally wounded by German rifle fire, becoming the first Australian officer killed in the war. See H19316

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