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1943-06-09. NEW GUINEA. THIS NATIVE VILLAGE, HANUABADA, MEANING "BIG VILLAGE," HAD A PRE- WAR POPULATION OF 2,700 ROOFED WITH CUNAI GRASS OR BIRI PALMS, THE HUTS HAVE TO BE REROOFED AT THREE YEAR ..

1943-06-10. NEW GUINEA. AT AN AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL IN NEW GUINEA. LEFT TO RIGHT SISTERS E. FOLDER OF TASMANIA AND E. BAXTER OF TASMANIA AND N. O'TOOLE OF PERTH. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-06-10. NEW GUINEA. AT AN AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL IN NEW GUINEA. AMERICAN NURSES HAVE AFTERNOON TEA WITH AUSTRALIAN NURSES. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-06-15. NEW GUINEA. JAPANESE WOUNDED IN NEW GUINEA WAITING TO BE TAKEN TO AN ALLIED DRESSING STATION. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK)

1943-06-10. NEW GUINEA. AT AN AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL IN NEW GUINEA. SISTERS OFF DUTY HIKING THROUGH THICK KUNAI GRASS. LEFT TO RIGHT SISTERS E MCELNEA OF INGHAM, NORTH. QUEENSLAND, M. CONROY ..

1943-06-15. NEW GUINEA. PTE. F. HAYNES OF MACKAY, QUEENSLAND, BRINGS IN AN EXHAUSTED JAPANESE PRISONER, SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK)

1943-06-15. NEW GUINEA. AUSTRALIANS WATCH JAPANESE PRISONER PREPARING HIS OWN FOOD. THIS PRISONER SAID HE WAS A CHINESE FROM HONGKONG, ALSO THAT HIS PARENTS HAD BEEN KILLED BY THE JAPS, AND HE, ..

1943-06-15. NEW GUINEA. PORT MORESBY CEMETERY. THE AMERICAN MEMORIAL BEARS THE INSCRIPTION:- "IN MEMORY OF OUR DEPARTED COMRADES 1942 - 43". (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-06-15. NEW GUINEA. A PAPUAN INFANTRY UNIT. A NATIVE SOLDIER WHO RECEIVED THE MILITARY MEDAL FOR WORKING BEHIND JAPANESE LINES AND OBTAINING VALUABLE INFORMATION, PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE RANGE WITH ..

1943-06-21. NEW GUINEA. AT AN AUSTRALIAN CASUALTY CLEARING STATION. SISTER M.F. THORPE, OF BRISBANE, WITH TWO OF THE NURSES: PETS - JIMINY CRICKET (A PHALANGER) AND JOE (A MOUNTAIN PARROT). JOE AND ..

1943-06-15. NEW GUINEA. PORT MORESBY CEMETERY. THE AMERICAN MEMORIAL BEARS THE INSCRIPTION:- "IN MEMORY OF OUR DEPARTED COMRADES 1942-43." (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-06-25. NEW GUINEA. WORSHIPPERS LEAVING THE NEW ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION. WITH THEM IS PADRE. A.H. KIRK. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)