Port Moresby, New Guinea. "For billiards and reading And writing, we come - Be blowed to the ...

Port Moresby, New Guinea. "For billiards and reading And writing, we come - Be blowed to the Black-out! The Rec Hut's our Home." Two members of the RAAF playing billiards in the Rec[reation] Hut that was was obtained and furnished by Padre P. Sands, the first RAAF Chaplain in wartime New Guinea. Once the hut was finished Padre Sands formed the concert party called the "Moresby Microbes" with Billy Challoner. The Moresby Microbes performed 50 weekly concerts between 8 May 1942 and 28 April 1943 (including the "Jubilee Concert" which was the last). Padre Sands wrote the verse that accompanied each photograph in an album given to LAC Frank Lansdowne, a member of the Moresby Microbes, now held in the Private Records collection at the Australian War Memorial. (Donor J. Treseder)