Margaret Whitlam, wife of the Federal Opposition Leader, and Corporal Desmond Wraight of ...

Accession Number CRO/68/0053/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Crothers, Richard William
Place made Vietnam: South Vietnam, Saigon
Date made 20 January 1968
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

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Description

Margaret Whitlam, wife of the Federal Opposition Leader, and Corporal Desmond Wraight of Brunswick Heads, NSW, say goodbye to some of the 120 Vietnamese children at the Don Chua orphanage. Mrs Whitlam, who has been travelling with her husband on his tour of ten Asian countries, visited the orphanage to see the work being done by members of the Army's 110th Signal Squadron. Corporal Wraight is an interpreter working with the Intelligence section at Australian Force Headquarters in Saigon.

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