NEW GUINEA. CPL. A.B. RUTLEDGE OF BERRY, N.S.W. HOLDING TWO OF MANY JAPANESE LAND MINES WHICH ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Song Valley, Song River, Gusika
Accession Number 016281
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Portrait
Physical description Black & white, Portrait
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made New Guinea1: Huon Peninsula, Song Valley, Song River, Gusika
Date made 17 December 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

NEW GUINEA. CPL. A.B. RUTLEDGE OF BERRY, N.S.W. HOLDING TWO OF MANY JAPANESE LAND MINES WHICH WERE DUG UP BEFORE ANY DAMAGE WAS CAUSED IN THE VICINITY OF GUSIKA. THIS AREA WAS HEAVILY MINED BY THE ENEMY IN A FUTILE EFFORT TO IMPEDE OUR ADVANCE.