016976 Accession Number: 016976

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New Guinea. High jinks in a homemade canoe on the water where Australian Medical Women's Auxiliary Service nurses and convalescent patients splash wildly. Sitting in the canoe, Private (Pte) Helen Parker of Killara, NSW (left), and Pte Dorothy Forfar of Coburg, Vic.

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Accession Number
016976
Photographer
Gordon Herbert Short
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
17 April 1944
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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