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JACQUINOT BAY, NEW BRITAIN. 1944-11-06. MEMBERS OF B COMPANY, 1ST NEW GUINEA INFANTRY BATTALION ABOARD THE FORMER HAWKESBURY RIVER (NEW SOUTH WALES) VEHICULAR FERRY, THE FRANCES PEAT, WHICH IS TO TRANSPORT THEM TO POMIO VILLAGE WHERE THE UNIT IS TO ESTABLISH ITS HEADQUARTERS. IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL IS: COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR KUBE (WITH KNIFE).
JACQUINOT BAY, NEW BRITAIN. 1944-11-06. MEMBERS OF B COMPANY, 1ST NEW GUINEA INFANTRY BATTALION GOING ASHORE IN A NATIVE LAKATOI FROM THE FRANCES PEAT, A FORMER HAWKESBURY RIVER, NEW SOUTH WALES, VEHI
JACQUINOT BAY, NEW BRITAIN. 1944-11-06. MEMBERS OF B COMPANY, 1ST NEW GUINEA INFANTRY BATTALION GOING ASHORE IN A NATIVE LAKATOI FROM THE FRANCES PEAT, A FORMER HAWKESBURY RIVER, NEW SOUTH WALES, VEHI
JACQUINOT BAY, NEW BRITAIN. 1944-11-06. TROOPS OF B COMPANY 1ST NEW GUINEA INFANTRY BATTALION HAULING THEIR LAKATOIS ABOARD THE MOTORSHIP FRANCES PEAT, A FORMER HAWKESBURY RIVER VEHICULAR FERRY, WHICH
JACQUINOT BAY, NEW BRITAIN. 1944-11-07. THE FRANCES PEAT AN EX HAWKESBURY RIVER, NEW SOUTH WALES VEHICULAR FERRY TAKING ON DRUMS OF PETROL AND OIL FROM THE AMERICAN TROOPSHIP CAPE ALEXANDER.
LABU, NEW GUINEA. 1944-10-03. CORPORAL J.C. JURD, 1ST WATERCRAFT WORKSHOPS, INSPECTING ONE OF THE BADLY DAMAGED PISTONS FROM THE ENGINE OF THE "FRANCES PEAT". THE "FRANCES PEAT" IS A COMPARATIVELY SMA
LABU, NEW GUINEA. 1944-10-03. AN IMPROVISED CYLINDER GRINDING APPLIANCE WHICH MEMBERS OF THE 1ST WATERCRAFT WORKSHOPS MADE UP TO GRIND THE CYLINDERS OF THE "FRANCES PEAT". THE "FRANCES PEAT" WAS A COM
