A female refugee carrying her baby at the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit refugee camp ...

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Accession Number 094596
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made Pacific Islands: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Wide Bay Area, Kiep, Sipilangan
Date made 27 July 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A female refugee carrying her baby at the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit refugee camp in the Wide Bay area. At the time that the photograph was taken, the camp housed approximately 600 local people, who travelled from Japanese held territories on the north side of the Gazelle Peninsula.