AN AUSTRALIAN ARMY CONVALESCENT DEPOT. THE SPIRIT THROUGHOUT THE CAMP IS THAT OF MEN ON HOLIDAY ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1
Accession Number 015592
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Turner, Harry
Place made Australia: Queensland
Date made 20 August 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

AN AUSTRALIAN ARMY CONVALESCENT DEPOT. THE SPIRIT THROUGHOUT THE CAMP IS THAT OF MEN ON HOLIDAY AND AS ONE BOY FROM NEW GUINEA PUT IT "TO THINK THE ARMY PAYS US FOR IT". ON THE BROAD SURFING BEACH A COURSE FOR OBSTACLE RACES HAS BEEN BUILT. (NEGATIVE BY H. TURNER).