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AT GOILAHAI A PLAQUE HAS BEEN ERECTED TO COMMEMORATE THE VICTORY OVER THE JAPANESE HERE IN 1942-09. THE INSCRIPTION READS: "18TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE. IN THIS AREA ON 1942-09-05 THE 2/9TH BATTALION SUPPORTED BY 9TH BATTERY, 2/5TH FIELD REGIMENT, INFLICTED THE FINAL DECISIVE DEFEAT ON THE JAPANESE FORCE WHICH HAD ATTEMPTED TO SEIZE MILNE BAY. AS A RESULT OF HIS ACTION IN THIS BATTLE, CORPORAL J.A. FRENCH WON THE FIRST VICTORIA CROSS AWARDED IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC CAMPAIGN. AWARD WAS POSTHUMOUS."
MILNE BAY, NEW GUINEA. 1944-07-19. THE TYPE OF JUNGLE COUNTRY WHERE QX1071 CORPORAL J.A. FRENCH VC, 2/9TH INFANTRY BATTALION, WON HIS POSTHUMOUS AWARD. THIS IMAGE JOINS PHOTOGRAPHS NO. 74702 AND 74705
MILNE BAY, NEW GUINEA. 1944-07-19. THE LOCALITY WHERE QX1071 CORPORAL J.A. FRENCH VC, 2/9TH INFANTRY BATTALION, WON HIS POSTHUMOUS DECORATION. THIS IMAGE JOINS PHOTOGRAPH NO. 74701.
Milne Bay, New Guinea. 1944-07-19. The type of jungle country where QX1071 Corporal J. A. French VC 2/9th Infantry Battalion won his posthumous Award. To join photographs No. 74702 and 74706.
NADZAB- LAE, NEW GUINEA, 1954-08. A PLAQUE ERECTED ON THE TRACK BETWEEN NADZAB AND LAE BY THE AUSTRALIAN BATTLEFIELDS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE UNDER A SCHEME INITIATED BY THE AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES TO C
MADANG, NEW GUINEA. 1944-07-20. THE AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND STORE. IN THIS LOCALITY QX1071 CORPORAL J. A. FRANCH VC, 2/9TH INFANTRY BATTALION, WON HIS POSTHUMOUS AWARD. THIS IMAGE JOINS NO. 074700.
MILNE BAY, NEW GUINEA, 1943-05. ARMY DIVER PREPARING TO DESCEND INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE SS ANSHUN. THIS VESSEL WAS SUNK BY SHELLFIRE FROM A JAPANESE WARSHIP DURING THE MILNE BAY INVASION, 1942-08 TO
