NX191070 LIEUTENANT H. A. HANKE, OFFICIAL WAR ARTIST ATTACHED TO HEADQUARTERS MILITARY HISTORY ...

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Accession Number 072181
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Kokoda Trail, Owers' Corner
Date made 12 April 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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Description

NX191070 LIEUTENANT H. A. HANKE, OFFICIAL WAR ARTIST ATTACHED TO HEADQUARTERS MILITARY HISTORY SECTION, AT HIS EASEL PAINTS THE BACKGROUND FOR A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE 25 POUNDER GUNS OF B TROOP, 53RD BATTERY, 14TH FIELD REGIMENT FIRING ON JAPANESE POSITIONS AT IORIBAIWA ON 1942-09-23, FROM THE POINT AT WHICH THE GUNS WERE SITED. THE TRACK TO THE RIGHT LEADS TO THE OWERS' CORNER CARRIER CAMP, AND THE TRACK TO THE LEFT LEADS TO OWERS CORNER AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE KOKODA TRAIL.