070034 Accession Number: 070034

Description

An interior view of the Recreation Hut built by the 2/101st General Transport Company in their camp area at Port Moresby and furnished and supplied with games by the Australian Comforts Fund. The canteen opening times are shown on a board in the background. Known personnel, clockwise from the left are: Unidentified; NX100767 Private (Pte) Fredrick Francis Coles; NX67071 Pte Sefton James Turner; NX108960 Pte Franklin Bernard Parsons; NX130863 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) William Lewis Rymer; VX19796 Staff Sergeant Myer Gollant; VX15147 Major Ernest Arthur Clarke (behind bar); Major Scott of the Australian Comforts Fund; Unidentified; NX147691 Pte Robert Arthur Royston; Obscured unidentified; NX103833 L Cpl Ronald Charles Lonsdale; Unidentified.

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Accession Number
070034
Photographer
Lieutenant Robert John Buchanan
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
22 January 1944
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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