NEW GUINEA. ATTACK ON LAE. THIS PLATOON OF A FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN BATTALION TOOK PART IN THE ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Lae
Accession Number 015933
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Military History Section
Place made New Guinea1: Huon Peninsula, Lae Markham River Area
Date made 6 October 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

NEW GUINEA. ATTACK ON LAE. THIS PLATOON OF A FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN BATTALION TOOK PART IN THE VICTORIOUS ADVANCE ON LAE. BRENGUNNERS TAKE UP A POSITION IN AN OLD JAPANESE FOX HOLE. THEY ARE L/CPL. R. PURCELL OF GLEBE, N.S.W. AND PTE. G. BEARDMORE OF BANKSTOWN, N.S.W. (NEGATIVE BY MILITARY HISTORY SECTION).