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Accession Number | AWM2020.22.126 |
Collection number | PR06223 |
Collection type | Digitised Collection |
Record type | Wallet |
Item count | 1 |
Object type | Diary |
Physical description | 31 Image/s captured |
Maker |
Gibson, Donald Thomas |
Place made | New Guinea |
Date made | 1943 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copying Provisions | Digital format and content protected by copyright. |
Source credit to | This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government. |
Wallet 1 of 1 - Diary of Donald Thomas Gibson, August - October 1943
Description
Collection relating to the Second World War service of B3887 Able Seaman Donald Thomas Gibson, Royal Australian Navy, New Guinea, 1943.
Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection contains a handwritten account of Able Seaman (AB) Gibson's experiences on active service from 20 August 1943 to 17 October 1943. AB Gibson wrote his account on an Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) notepad. The first twelve pages are written with the title 'Our trip from Moresby to Buna', and the following seventeen pages have the title 'Milne Bay to Buna'.