NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. IN THEIR HURRIED RETREAT FROM KOMIATUM RIDGE THE JAPANESE LEFT BEHIND ...

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Accession Number 015688
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Dick, Harold George
Place made New Guinea1: Mubo Salamaua Area, Komiatum Ridge
Date made 14 September 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. IN THEIR HURRIED RETREAT FROM KOMIATUM RIDGE THE JAPANESE LEFT BEHIND WHAT FOR THEM WAS A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF EQUIPMENT. PTE. LES. HARGREAVES OF BELLEVUE HILL, N.S.W., PTE. LAURIE MAXTED, OF WARREN N.S.W. PTE. ARTHUR VELLA, OF BALMAIN, N.S.W. AND PTE. WM. MCKINNON, OF LAKE CHARM, VICTORIA, EXAMINE A JAPANESE RIFLE, RESPIRATORS, SMALL ARMS, AMMUNITION, WATER BOTTLES, GRENADES, BOOTS AND POUCHES. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK).