Choiseul (Lauru) Island, Solomon Islands. 1943. Local men carry an injured US airman to two ...

Accession Number P02392.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

Choiseul (Lauru) Island, Solomon Islands. 1943. Local men carry an injured US airman to two native canoes at the water's edge at the part of the island known as Boe Boe. In the far right of the photograph is Sergeant Carden Seton, AIF (later Captain Seton DCM) a Coastwatcher on the island from October 1942 to March 1944. The canoes subsequently moved out to meet a US seaplane (a `Dumbo' mission) which also brought in stores for the Coastwatchers. (Donor A. Waddell)