Group portrait of Japanese naval personnel and military nurses in front of the 8th Navy Hospital ...

Accession Number P03468.018
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Pacific Islands: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula, Rabaul Area, Rabaul, Namanula
Date made August 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of Japanese naval personnel and military nurses in front of the 8th Navy Hospital at Namanula, Rabaul. The hospital was built by the Germans circa 1910, then operated by the Australian government after the First World War. From 1942-1945 the hospital was used by the Japanese Imperial Navy.

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