KAIRI AREA, QLD. 1944-04-22. GUESTS AND SENIOR OFFICERS INSPECTING THE NEW KOALA SOLDIERS CLUB ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Atherton Tableland, Kairi
Accession Number 065852
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Maker McInnes, Geoffrey
Date made 22 April 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

KAIRI AREA, QLD. 1944-04-22. GUESTS AND SENIOR OFFICERS INSPECTING THE NEW KOALA SOLDIERS CLUB AFTER THE OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY HAD BEEN PERFORMED BY LADY OLGA BLAMEY, WIFE OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, ALLIED LAND FORCES SOUTH WEST PACIFIC AREA. IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE:- TX2003 LIEUTENANT COLONEL S.T. HODGMEN, OBE., GSO. II., (OPERATIONS) HEADQUARTERS, FIRST AUSTRALIAN CORPS (3); VX108136 MAJOR R.C. TOMKINS, DEPUTY ASSISTANT ADJUTANT GENERAL, HEADQUARTERS, 3RD DIVISION (4); WX1574 BRIGADIER A.W. POTTS, DSO., MC., COMMANDING, 23RD AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE (5); BRIGADIER F.P.H. FEWTRELL, VD., (6); VX130450 LIEUTENANT COLONEL J.H. RUSSELL, ASSISTANT ADJUTANT GENERAL, QUEENSLAND LINES OF COMMUNICATION AREA (8).