PORT MORESBY, PAPUA, 1942-07-11. AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSEMEN AGAIN. REVIVING THE AUSTRALIAN ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Accession Number 025877
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Fisher, Thomas
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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PORT MORESBY, PAPUA, 1942-07-11. AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSEMEN AGAIN. REVIVING THE AUSTRALIAN TRADITION OF FINE HORSEMANSHIP BUILT BY THE FAMOUS LIGHT HORSEMEN OF THE LAST WAR, AN AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE UNIT IS OPERATING IN NEW GUINEA. HERE MEMBERS OF THE INDEPENDENT LIGHT HORSE TROOP ARE SEEN CATCHING BRUMBIES AFTER ROUNDING THEM UP IN THE HILLS OF NEW GUINEA.