Lieutenant Colonel Albert Caro, Commanding Officer of 2/16th Battalion, 21st Australian Infantry ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Laloki River Area, Sogeri
Accession Number 040675
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Grigg, Ernest William
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Laloki River Area, Sogeri
Date made 4 October 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Lieutenant Colonel Albert Caro, Commanding Officer of 2/16th Battalion, 21st Australian Infantry Brigade, addressing his troops before a review of the Brigade by Major General A. S. (Tubby) Allen, CB CBE DSO VD, (Commanding 7th Australian Division) and Brigadier Arnold W. Potts, DSO MC. The is the first parade of the depleted 21st Australian Infantry Brigade since its return from the jungle. This series of photographs was taken by WX2725 Lieutenant E W Grigg, A Company, 2/16 Battalion, who is official photographer to that unit. Due to a holdup on the road Bottomley arrived too late.