016755 Accession Number: 016755

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New Guinea. Former Victorian jockey, Corporal (Cpl) George May, serves at a forward medical dressing station in the Ramu Valley. Cpl May of Altona, Vic, looking through his microscope at one of more than 20,000 slides he has tested in the laboratory at this dressing station.

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Accession Number
016755
Photographer
Gordon Herbert Short
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
29 March 1944
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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