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KALIBOBO POINT, NEW GUINEA. THE COASTWATCHERS MEMORIAL LIGHT AT MADANG HARBOUR. THE LIGHT IS A MEMORIAL TO THE COASTWATCHERS STILL LIVING AND TO THOSE 38 WHO PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE WHILE CARRYING OUT THEIR SOLITARY AND DANGEROUS WORK DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, AND THE LOYAL NATIVES WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR THEM TO REMAIN AT THEIR POSTS. THE LIGHT WAS OFFICIALLY SWITCHED ON FOR THE FIRST TIME ON 1959-08-15, BY SENATOR JOHN GORTON, MINISTER FOR THE NAVY, IN THE PRESENCE OF BRIGADIER D. M. CLELAND, ADMINISTRATOR OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA, COMMANDER E. FELDT, WHO ORGANISED AND EXPANDED THE ORGANISATION, CAPTAIN C. M. WHITE, US NAVAL ATTACHE IN AUSTRALIA, OTHER OFFICIALS AND LOCAL RESIDENTS, AND AN ESTIMATED 3,000 NATIVES.
Kaliboro Point, New Guinea. August 1959. The Coastwatchers Memorial Light at Madang Harbour. It is a memorial to the coastwatchers still living and to those thirty-eight who were killed while carrying
Dutch New Guinea. Natives who came a considerable distance through the jungles of Japanese occupied territory to the safety of the Americans at Hollandia. A tribe of 200 natives was brought through by
Rabaul, New Britain, 1941-09-28. The guard of honour from the Rabaul detachment of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, drawn up facing the flagstaff in the grounds of the BP (British Petroleum) Club wait
LUNGA, GUADALCANAL, SOLOMON ISLANDS. 1943-10-13. (?1945). LIEUTENANT COMMANDER I. PRYCE-JONES, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY VOLUNTEER, PRESENTING SERGEANT YAUWIKA (YAWIKA), A NATIVE POLICEMAN OF THE BRITISH
Rabaul, New Guinea, 1940-09-28. The crowd at the London Relief Fete. The fete was held in the grounds of the BP (British Petroleum) Club, Rabaul, on Friday and Saturday 27th and 28th September 1941, o
NEW GUINEA. WITHIN A FEW HOURS AFTER A FIRE HAD SWEPT THROUGH THE NATIVE VILLAGE OF HANAUBADA, WHICH HOUSED 3,000 NATIVES, THE MEN HAD ERECTED PALM THATCHED LEANTO'S AND WERE ISSUED WITH TENTS. THE LO
