Place | Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua |
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Accession Number | P01817.020 |
Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Film copy negative |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Papua-New Guinea, c. 1943. Native stretcher-bearers (often called fuzzy wuzzy angels) carry a ...
Description
Papua-New Guinea, c. 1943. Native stretcher-bearers (often called fuzzy wuzzy angels) carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher down a muddy jungle track, as they evacuate him from the front. An Australian medical officer (MO) is at left, while at right a medic with a Red Cross on his arm attends to the wounded man.