WAREO, NEW GUINEA. 1943-12-09. VX46804 PRIVATE (PTE) R. E. WIEBRECHT OF CLARKFIELD, VIC (1) AND ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Wareo
Accession Number 061698
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Buchanan, Robert John
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

WAREO, NEW GUINEA. 1943-12-09. VX46804 PRIVATE (PTE) R. E. WIEBRECHT OF CLARKFIELD, VIC (1) AND VX68678 PTE A. H. LESERVE OF POOWONG, VIC (2); BOTH OF THE 2/23RD AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION READING THE INSCRIPTION ON THE BELL WHICH WAS SALVAGED FROM THE BOMB-WRECKED MISSION. THE INSCRIPTION READS: "FROM FRIENDS IN NURNBERG TO WAREO, 1918.