Collection related to the service of Harold Edwin Murray Jennings

Accession Number P10547
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

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.