QX6083 Major James Joseph Ryan, MC, (still wearing a surgical mask) a surgeon of the 2/1st ...

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Accession Number 070195
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, Koropa
Date made 3 February 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

QX6083 Major James Joseph Ryan, MC, (still wearing a surgical mask) a surgeon of the 2/1st General Hospital attached to the 15th Field Ambulance, writes the history of an operation he has performed at the Advanced Dressing Station at Koropa to handle wounded from the 57/60th Infantry Battalion’s attack on Japanese positions at Orgoruna 1.