Funeral of New York Times war correspondent Byron Darnton, at the military cemetery at Port ...

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Accession Number 013475
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Silk, George
Place made Papua: Port Moresby
Date made 29 October 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Funeral of New York Times war correspondent Byron Darnton, at the military cemetery at Port Moresby. Pall-bearers were war correspondents. Four were American, one English, one Australian. Left to right - pall-bearers were:- Dean Schedler (Associated Press of America); Pat Robinson (International News Service); Noel Monks (London Daily Mail); Lewis B. Sebring, Jr. (New York Herald Tribune); E.R. Noderer (Chicago Daily Tribune); George Johnson (Melbourne Argus).