Place | Oceania: New Guinea1 |
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Accession Number | PR89/058 |
Collection type | Private Record |
Record type | Collection |
Measurement | 2 ITEMS |
Object type | Document |
Maker |
Sheehan, Michael Lawrence (Mick) |
Date made | 1942 |
Access | Open |
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM315 264/012/076 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Sheehan, Michael (Lieutenant) AIF)
Description
ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT MESSAGE PINNED TO A TREE AT GADAGASAL VILLAGE BY OCCUPYING JAPANESE FORCES, REQUESTING UNIT MEMBERS TO COME FORWARD AND SURRENDER. DONOR LEFT THE NOTE ON THE TREE SO AS NOT TO ALERT THE JAPANESE TO THEIR PRESENCE. THE NOTICE WAS LATER RETRIEVED BY ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE UNIT