VX144577 Private Albert Neal Benneworth (at left) and VX122635 Corporal Doyle Trevor Thomas ...

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Accession Number 070114
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Halmarick, Colin Thomas
Place made New Guinea1: Huon Peninsula, Ramu River Finisterre Ranges Area, Ramu Bogadjim Area, Ketoba
Date made 29 January 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

VX144577 Private Albert Neal Benneworth (at left) and VX122635 Corporal Doyle Trevor Thomas Bourke of the 57/60th Infantry Battalion at an impromptu prayer meeting on the edge of a small stream not far from the Boku River before the Unit’s attack on the Orgoruna in the Ramu Valley. The objective was captured later in the day without opposition.