016977 Accession Number: 016977

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New Guinea. Relaxing under an old lorry awning are Australian Medical Women's Auxiliary Service nurses Private (Pte) Betty Muir, peacetime secretary of Point Piper, NSW (left), and Corporal Dawn St Clair, librarian of Cronulla, NSW, and a convalescent soldier Pte Oswald Stevens of Goondiwindi, Qld. Note the colour patch of the hats has been whited out by the censor.

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Accession Number
016977
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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