New Guinea. Stainless steel identity discs have replaced fibre discs which are unsuitable in New ...

Accession Number 017238
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made New Guinea1, New Guinea1: Wewak Madang Area, Alexishafen
Date made 6 June 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

New Guinea. Stainless steel identity discs have replaced fibre discs which are unsuitable in New Guinea's climate. Private L. Matthews of Belmore, NSW, his tools laid around him, stamps out the steel discs for members of his unit north of Alexishafen.

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