Accession Number | P10547 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Album |
Place made | Australia |
Date made | c 1947-1952 |
Conflict |
Period 1950-1959 Period 1940-1949 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Collection related to the service of Harold Edwin Murray Jennings
Brown leather album with red spine, 40 pages containing 285 photographs relating to the service of Harold Edwin Murray Jennings, Australian Army (later served as 32150 Corporal Jennings in the 1st British Commonwealth Division Provost Company in the Korean War). The photographs include training and trials in Australia c 1947-1952. Vehicles and weapons, mainly at Puckapunyal, include: White armoured cars (p2, p6); Staghounds (p2, p5, p18); Grant medium tanks (p2, p5); Canadian Dingo armoured scout cars (p2, p19); Churchill tanks (flame thrower version) (p4); Sherman tanks (p5); Chaffee tanks (p5, p18); Matilda tanks (p5); Type 95 HA-GO (Japanese - captured at Rabual) (p7); Type 97 CHI-HA (p7); Type 2 KA-MI amphibious tanks (p7); German 88mm anti-aircraft gun (p8); Buffalo amphibious tractor (p8); AMTRAK - Alligator version (p8, p10); Maltilda -Bulldozer version (p8, p10); Construction tank hangars (p10); LVT (p18); Yeramba SPG (self propelled gun, Australian designed) (p19); Covenator bridge layer (p22); Churchill tanks (p24, p34); Vickers Light tank - 6 ton (p27); DUKW (p27). The photographs also include camps, portraits and Coral Sea marches in 1950 and 1951.