AUSTERITY IS NO NEW WORD IN THE VOCABULARY OF AUSTRALIA'S FIGHTING TROOPS, BUT HARD RATIONS DO ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Northern Territory
Accession Number 013222
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original acetate
Maker McNeil, John Earl (Earl)
Place made Australia: Northern Territory
Date made 10 September 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

AUSTERITY IS NO NEW WORD IN THE VOCABULARY OF AUSTRALIA'S FIGHTING TROOPS, BUT HARD RATIONS DO NOT APPEAR TO DAMP THEIR SPIRITS. THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN DURING A SHORT REST PERIOD WHILE THE TROOPS WERE ON MANOEUVRES IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. (NEGATIVE BY MCNEIL).