072635 Accession Number: 072635

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FINSCHHAFEN AREA, NEW GUINEA. 1944-04-25. MAJOR GENERAL B.M. MORRIS, DSO, GOC AUSTRALIAN NEW GUINEA ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT (1), INTRODUCING SERGEANT IWAGU, GM, ROYAL PAPUAN CONSTABULARY (2), TO THE HONOURABLE E.J. WARD, MINISTER FOR EXTERNAL TERRITORIES IN THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT (3), AND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL A.A. CONLON (4). SERGEANT IWAGU RECEIVED THE GEORGE MEDAL FOR RESCUING CAPTAIN LEUTCHFORD WHO WAS WOUNDED, FROM DROWNING, AND LAYING OVER HIS BODY DURING AN AIR RAID AT SCARLET BEACH.

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072635
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Photograph
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Negative
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Colour: Black & white
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Whole
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1
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