Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer ...

Accession Number 030367/06
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Woods, Leonard Thomas
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer Commanding, 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion, standing beside the grave of VX26511 A/Sergeant K. R. Gilder, 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion, who was killed in an ambush of Chinese Communists at Hoban, Hainan Island, on 8 April 1944.