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Jack Arden, member of the 2/3rd Australian Independent Company, [New Guinea, July, 1943]

Jack Arden (centre) with three other members of the 2/3rd Australian Independent Company, [New Guinea, July, 1943]

John Lewin [far left], Lieutenant Colonel Patrick D. S. Starr with binoculars and Major George R. Warfe [right foreground] and others of the 2/3rd Australian Independent Company, New Guinea, July, 1943

Jack Arden (second from the right) with three other soldiers, all are members of the 2/3rd Australian Independent Company, [New Guinea, July, 1943]

Jack Arden (centre) with two other soldiers in New Caledonia, ca. 1942, 1

Jack Arden sitting in the water, New Caledonia, 1942

Jack Arden (centre) with two other soldiers in New Caledonia, ca. 1942, 2

Soldiers in New Caledonia, ca. 1942

Photomap, Suva Peninsula / prepared by the Department of Lands, Mines and Surveys, Suva

Roasted pigs laid out in a line for a feast in a village, Papua New Guinea, approximately 1968 / Robin Smith

Bride wearing traditional headgear and decorated with bank notes, Papua New Guinea, approximately 1968 / Robin Smith

A Lufa bowman preparing to fire a specially designed pig-killing arrow, Papua New Guinea, approximately 1968 / Robin Smith