016016 Accession Number: 016016

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Group portrait of bearded Australian soldiers of the 2/2 Independent Company, with a captured Japanese trench mortar, just returned from a patrol in which they clashed with Japanese in the upper Ramu Valley. Shown: WX11366 Corporal John Frederick Fowler of Wongan Hills, WA; Private (Pte) Frank Thorpe of Kyogle, NSW; Pte Jack Prior of Temora, NSW; Pte T. Martin of Port Macquarie, NSW (back row, right); Pte R. Watson of Bunbury, WA.

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Accession Number
016016
Photographer
Gordon Herbert Short
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
28 October 1943
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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