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Yule Island, New Guinea. c. 1944-05-15. Private W. Tibbett, shipwright, 1 Marine Food Supply Platoon (left) and George English, known as "boss-boy" building a 20 foot Seine fishing boat

Bisiatabu, New Guinea. 1944-05-22. Captain A. G. Schroeder, Regimental Medical Officer, 1 Papuan Infantry Battalion, in his surgery dressing a tropical ulcer on the leg of a native man. Left to ..

Bisiatabu, New Guinea. 1944-5-22. Sergeant W. Wall, 1 Papuan Infantry Battalion, with his platoon outside the Unit's orderly room, a thatched building

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-05-29. Officers attending to patients in the Physiotherapy Department, 2/1st Australian General Hospital. Each officer attends up to ninety patients each day. ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-05-28. Patients exercising on a wooden frame consisting of parallel bars and ladders outside the Physiotherapy Department, 2/1st Australian General Hospital under the ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-05-29. Sergeant E. M. Hawkes, sitting behind a typewriter, and Lance Corporal K. Wells, members of Australian Army Medical Womens Service (AAMWS) working in the ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-05-31. Group portrait of Officers of A Mess, HQ Moresby Base Sub Area. Left to right: Back row: Captain (Capt) R. V. Tiedemann, Capt A. B. Newell; Major (Maj.) D. H. ..

Yule Island, New Guinea. c. 1944-05-15. Members of 1 Marine Food Supply Platoon after a fruit gathering expedition loading bananas aboard their vessel for delivery to hospitals and casualty ..

Yule Island, New Guinea. 1944-05-16. Staff Sergeant Robinson, HQ Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit, supervising his native assistants serving customers in the trading store on Kairuka ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-05-30. Lieutenant Colonel L. C. Fisher, Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, Moresby Base Sub Area (right), discussing an equipment problem with Colonel H. R. D. ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-05-29. Captain Dunstone, Medical Officer, 128th Australian General Hospital, with his staff in the operating theatre performing surgery on Private M. J. Cronin. Left ..

Yule Island, New Guinea. c. 1944-05-15. Lieutenant (Lt) W. R. Burgess, Officer in Charge, 1 Marine Food Supply Platoon, working in his office overlooking the camp area. Lt Burgess nickname was ..