Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel C. G. W. Anderson, awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in ...

Place Asia: Malaya, Johore, Muar Area, Bakri
Accession Number 012562
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Malaya
Date made c January1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel C. G. W. Anderson, awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in action. For five days he commanded a fighting withdrawal of the 2/19th and 2/29th Battalions AIF together with the 45th Indian Brigade from Bakri to Parit Sulong.