015488 Accession Number: 015488

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Mount Tambu fighting. Members of 2/5 Battalion firing mortars at Japanese positions 60 yards away. Left to right: NX115759 Private (Pte) Athol James Butler of Bathurst, NSW; VX27151 Pte Findlay Llewellen "Sonny" Davies, of Footscray, Victoria; NX115757 Pte Lance David Copland, of Pendle Hill, NSW and NX115768 Pte Archie Ronald (Ron) Beaver of Pendle Hill, NSW.

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Accession Number
015488
Photographer
Gordon Herbert Short
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
10 August 1943
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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