Helping a wounded comrade

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen, Finschhafen area
Accession Number ART22765
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 46 x 34.2 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description charcoal with coloured chalks over pencil on paper
Maker Hodgkinson, Roy
Place made New Guinea1
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

Infantryman of the 9th Australian Infantry Division helping his comrade to the Regimental Aid Post. This is often a necessary occurrence when, owing to a temporary shortage of stretcher bearers, a wounded man's mates would take him to the Regimental Aid Post, Finschhafen, New Guinea.

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