A GROUP OF THE SURVIVORS OFF THE "MACDHUI" SUNK IN PORT MORESBY ON 18 JUNE 1942. THE SEAMEN WERE ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Accession Number 012974
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Anderson, Alan Frederick
Place made Australia
Date made 24 July 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

A GROUP OF THE SURVIVORS OFF THE "MACDHUI" SUNK IN PORT MORESBY ON 18 JUNE 1942. THE SEAMEN WERE ABLE TO SAVE ONLY THE CLOTHES THEY WERE WEARING BUT NEVERTHELESS THEY COULD RAISE A SMILE. MOST OF THEM ARE ANXIOUS TO FIND ANOTHER SHIP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. (NEGATIVE BY ANDERSON).