HEAVY RAIN MADE WORK MORE DIFFICULT TO KEEP MAPS AND WRITING MATERIAL DRY AT A FORWARD COMMAND ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Song Valley, Song River, Gusika
Accession Number 016297
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made New Guinea1, New Guinea1: Huon Peninsula, Song Valley, Song River, Gusika
Date made 20 December 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

HEAVY RAIN MADE WORK MORE DIFFICULT TO KEEP MAPS AND WRITING MATERIAL DRY AT A FORWARD COMMAND POST DURING THE BATTLE IN WHICH INFANTRY UNITS OF 29TH/46TH BATTALION INFLICTED SEVERE CASUALTIES ON THE JAPANESE NORTH OF GUSIKA. LEFT TO RIGHT: LIEUTENANT (LT) G. THOMPSON OF NARRABEEN, NSW; CORPORAL FRED J. NEGRO OF RICHMOND, VIC; V200402 PRIVATE F. P. (FELIX) FURLONG OF VIC, AND OF 29/46TH BATTALION, 3RD DIVISION, 4TH BRIGADE (IN THE BACK, BEHIND THE MAN WITHOUT THE HAT); LT S. PIGOTT OF MALVERN, VIC; SIGNALMAN (SIG) CHARLES BYRNE OF FITZROY, MELBOURNE, VIC; SIG. G. WALKER OF RICHMOND, VIC.