At the 6th Mobile Ammunition Repair Shop in the 8th Advanced Ammunition Depot, Port Moresby, ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Accession Number 070220
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
Place made Papua: Port Moresby
Date made 2 February 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

At the 6th Mobile Ammunition Repair Shop in the 8th Advanced Ammunition Depot, Port Moresby, VX119949 Private (Pte) Horace Darcy (right foreground) is repairing a 25 pounder high explosive shell. Identified members on the opposite side of the bench from left to right: VX143504 Pte Edwin Keenan, VX121204 Lance Corporal Clement Waring Rees, NX91156 Craftsman Walter George Johnson, VX143503 Sergeant (Sgt) Michael Scanlon and NX164537 Sgt Stanley Herbert Jeffress.