016980 Accession Number: 016980

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New Guinea. Rest day finishes with a dance at the club. Once a week an Army band provides dance music. Making whoopee in the band are Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) members Peggy Maxwell, stenographer of Manly, NSW, Evelyn Kennedy, typist of Braidwood, NSW, and Pte Helen Parker, home duties of Killara, NSW.

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Accession Number
016980
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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