The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-11-01. A GROUP OF WAR CORRESPONDENTS AT THEIR FOUR MILE BASE DURING THE ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN THE OWEN STANLEY RANGES AND KOKODA. THE MEN ARE, FROM THE LEFT, BACK ROW, L. EDWARDS (ABC TECHNICIAN FOR CHESTER WILMOT), TOM FAIRHALL (SYDNEY DAILY TELEGRAPH), BOB DOYLE (USA, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL), GEORGE MORRAD (AMERICAN RED CROSS), R. B. LEONARD (MELBOURNE HERALD, SYDNEY SUN AND, LATER, EDITOR OF GUINEA GOLD), SITTING, GEORGE SILK (AUSTRALIAN DOI PHOTOGRAPHER) AND, FURTHER TO THE RIGHT, CAPTAIN MADDEN (CONDUCTING OFFICER); CENTRE ROW, HAROLD GUARD, STANDING (UNITED PRESS), MERLIN SPENCER (AMERICAN ASSOCIATED PRESS), CHARLES BUTTROSE (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD), PAT ROBINSON (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE), LEW SEBRING (NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE), GEOFFREY REDDING (SYDNEY TRUTH AND DAILY MIRROR), LIEUTENANT COLONEL GEORGE FENTON (ARMY DPR IN CHARGE OF HUT), ED WIDDIS (AP PHOTOGRAPHER), MARTIN BARNETT (PARAMOUNT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER), AL NODERER (CHICAGO TRIBUNE), DEAN SCHEDLER (US ASSOCIATED PRESS); FRONT ROW, CHESTER WILMOT (ABC), LIEUTENANT TOM FISHER, LATER KILLED, (OFFICIAL ARMY PHOTOGRAPHER), GEORGE JOHNSTON (MELBOURNE ARGUS), FRANK PRIST (ACME NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER, US), CLIFF BOTTOMLEY (AUSTRALIAN DOI PHOTOGRAPHER).
Funeral of New York Times war correspondent Byron Darnton, at the military cemetery at Port Moresby. Pall-bearers were war correspondents. Four were American, one English, one Australian. Left to righ
NEW GUINEA. FUNERAL OF NEW YORK TIMES WAR CORRESPONDENT, BYRON DARNTON, AT THE MILITARY CEMETERY AT PORT MORESBY. PALL-BEARERS WERE WAR CORRESPONDENTS FOUR WERE AMERICAN, ONE ENGLISH, ONE AUSTRALIAN.
AITAPE, NORTH EAST NEW GUINEA. C. 1944-04. WAR CORRESPONDENTS SENT NEWS OF THE GREAT PART PLAYED BY RAAF GROUND FORCES IN THE AITAPE LANDING RIGHT ROUND THE WORLD. "DOC" QUIGG OF UNITED PRESS, F. SCHA
Major General Gordon Bennett, General Officer Commanding AIF Malaya, briefing official war correspondents on the first clash between Australians and Japanese. Standing from left to right: Captain B. C
PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1943-09-13. GENERAL SIR THOMAS BLAMEY GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, ED, COMMANDER IN CHIEF, ALLIED LAND FORCES, SOUTH WEST PACIFIC AREA, GIVING A PRESS CONFERENCE AT HEADQUARTERS, NEW
Philippines. Australian War Correspondents who are covering the campaign standing outside their home and headquarters, 'Australia House', on Leyte Island. Left to right, back row: Harry Summers (Sydne
