MELJ0823 Accession Number: MELJ0823

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27812 Private (Pte) David Sherman Dennis of Trangie, NSW, makes a good leap in the broad jump event during an athletics meeting held in Korea by the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR). The meeting is being held near the battalion's truce line defence positions, on a ground bulldozed out of the site of a former battlefield of the Korean War. Pte Dennis, who joined the Australian Regular Army just over two years ago, has been in Korea for five months, and previously spent several months in Japan.

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Accession Number
MELJ0823
Photographer
Sergeant Donald Albert (Tim) Meldrum
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Date Made
16 May 1955
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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