VX1 General Sir Thomas Blamey GBE KCB CMG DSO ED, Commander in Chief, Allied Land Forces, South ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Accession Number 061948
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Maker Rainsford, Keith Carr
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Date made 28 December 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

VX1 General Sir Thomas Blamey GBE KCB CMG DSO ED, Commander in Chief, Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area, photographed with some of his officers outside his hut. They are: NX13710 Captain J. R. Kitto, Personal Assistant to the General Officer Commanding (GOC) (1); NX12346 Brigadier John Walter Main CBE ED, Chief Engineer (2); VX12777 Brigadier L. E. S. Barker CBE DSO MC, Brigadier Royal Artillery (3); SX616 Captain R. E. Porter, Aide-de-Camp to the Commander in Chief (4); VX12014 Major General E. J. Milford DSO, GOC 5th Australian Division, Major General, General Staff (5); General Sir Thomas Blamey (6); NX12227 Brigadier D. N. Veron OBE, Chief Staff Officer (7); VX38969 Major General W. Bridgeford CBE MC, Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General (8).