LABUAN, MALAYSIA, 1963-04-25. AUSTRALIAN AND BRITISH SERVICEMEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE ...

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Accession Number MAL/63/0039/01
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Date made c 1963
Conflict Period 1960-1969
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LABUAN, MALAYSIA, 1963-04-25. AUSTRALIAN AND BRITISH SERVICEMEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE PACIFIC DURING WORLD WAR TWO ARE HONOURED AT AN ANZAC DAY PARADE AT THE ALLIED WAR CEMETERY. IN PICTURE, SQUADRON LEADER H.A. HUGHES, DFC, (LEFT) OF COOGEE, NSW, COMMANDING NO 3 (F) SQUADRON, RAAF, AND WING COMMANDER J.H.R.C. GROVES, OFFICER COMMANDING RAF, LABUAN, LAY WREATHS AT THE CENOTAPH. SQUADRON LEADER HUGHES LED A CONTINGENT OF 23 RAAF MEMBERS WHICH FLEW FROM THE RAAF BASE AT BUTTERWORTH, MALAYSIA, FOR THE PARADE.