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PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-09. COMMANDING OFFICER OF 2/31ST AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION AND SENIOR OFFICERS OF THE BATTALION PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE JUNGLE DURING THE ADVANCE OVER OWEN STANLEY RANGES TO KOKODA. LEFT TO RIGHT: FOREGROUND:- LIEUTENANT COLONEL C. C. DUNBAR, COMMANDING OFFICER; MAJOR E. M. ROBSON, SECOND IN COMMAND; LIEUTENANT C. H. D. BIRNIE; AND CAPTAIN E. T. BEAZLEY.
PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE 2/31ST AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, AND SOME OF HIS OFFICERS AT A STOPOVER IN DENSE JUNGLE COUNTRY NEAR MENARI. LEFT TO RIGHT:- LIEUTENANT C
PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. CORPORAL A. MCKEOWN, 2/31ST AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE TRACK BETWEEN NAURO AND MENARI IN THE OWEN STANLEY RANGES. HE HAD NOT SHAVED FOR A MONTH.
PAPUA, NEW GUINEA, 1942-10. MEN OF THE 2/33RD AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION MARCHING THROUGH THE SMALL NATIVE VILLAGE OF NAURO ON THEIR WAY THROUGH THE OWEN STANLEY RANGES TO KOKODA. NOTE EACH MAN HAS
PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. A VIEW OF THE COUNTRY IN THE OWEN STANLEY RANGES, TAKEN FROM A HIGH POINT OF THE TRUCK NEAR NAURO, WHERE THE JUNGLE OPENS OUT AND PERMITS THIS VISTA ACROSS THE RIDGES TO KO
PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. MEN OF THE 2/33RD AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION MARCHING THROUGH THE SMALL NATIVE VILLAGE OF NAURO ON THEIR WAY THROUGH THE OWEN STANLEY RANGES TO KOKODA.
BANJERMASIN, BORNEO. 1945-09-17. LIEUTENANT COLONEL E. M. ROBSON, COMMANDING OFFICER, 2/31ST INFANTRY BATTALION, TALKING WITH TWO INDIAN EX-POWS OF THE JAPANESE ON HIS ARRIVAL TO TAKE OVER THE OCCUPAT
