024975 Accession Number: 024975

Description

OFFICERS CHATTING AFTER A PARADE AT MAIN HEADQUARTERS, 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION, AT WHICH OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE DIVISION WHO HAVE BEEN AWARDED DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY IN THE RECENT OPERATIONS, WERE PRESENTED WITH THE RIBBON OF THEIR DECORATION BY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR LESLIE MORSHEAD, GENERAL-OFFICER-COMMANDING AIF (M.E.). LEFT TO RIGHT:- LIEUTENANT COLONEL C.G. WEIR, COMMANDING 2/24TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION; LIEUTENANT COLONEL B. EVANS DSO, COMMANDING 2/23RD AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION; BRIGADIER RAYMOND W. TOVELL, COMMANDING 26TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE, AND LIEUTENANT- COLONEL H.H. HAMMER, COMMANDING 2/48TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION.

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Accession Number
024975
Photographer
Sergeant E E Smith
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Support: Nitrate
Format: 3x4"
Date Made
7 September 1942
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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