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Torokina, Bougainville. 1945-11-04. Major General W. Bridgeford, CB CBE MC, General Officer Commanding 3 Australian Division, presenting a prize to 418295 Leading Aircraftman W. J. MacFarlane, ..

Torokina, Bougainville. 1945-11-04. VX109807 Signalman R. Stokes winning the three metre board diving championship at the 3 Australian Division swimming carnival at the Bush Swimming Pool

Rabaul, New Britain. 1946-04-04. A panoramic view of the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit Asiatic Hospital with a section of the harbour in the background

Rabaul, New Britain. 1946-03-29. A Japanese fighter aircraft which had been destroyed in its revetment and subsequently surrounded by natural secondary growth. It was located near a newly developed ..

PORT MORESBY. PAPUAN INFANTRY MAN. (NEGATIVE BR R. PEARSE)

Probably Emirau Island. Survivors, passengers and crews from the British vessel Rangitane, were rescued by the Australian Steamer Nellore from the island of Emirau, in the Bismarck Archipelago ..

EMIRAU ISLAND. THE CAPTAIN OF THE NORWEGIAN MERCHANT VESSEL VINNI WITH CAPTAIN UPTON OF THE BRITISH VESSEL RANGITANE, BOTH OF WHOSE SHIPS WERE SUNK BY GERMAN RAIDERS KOMET AND ORION IN THE PACIFIC, ..

PAPUA. KAKI TRADING POST. (NEGATIVE BY R. PEARSE)

PAPUAN INFANTRY MAN. (NEGATIVE BY R. PEARSE)

EMIRAU ISLAND. GROUP PORTRAIT OF SOME OF THE PASSENGERS AND CREW WHO HAD BEEN CAST AWAY ON EMIRAU ISLAND IN THE BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO AFTER THEIR MERCHANT SHIPS WERE SUNK BY GERMAN RAIDERS KOMET AND ..

PAPUA. PORT MORESBY. A PAPUAN INFANTRY BATTALION. (NEGATIVE BY R. PEARSE)

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-05-29. Lieutenant R.B. Stevens testing a patient's eyesight at the Opthalmic Department of the 128th Australian General Hospital (128AGH). Private R.F. Welladsen is ..