Members of 2/17 Infantry Battalion and 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion aboard a landing craft vehicle. ...

Place Asia: Borneo, Brunei Bay Area
Accession Number 108941
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Donaldson, Robert Eric
Place made Borneo: Brunei Bay Area, Brunei
Date made 10 June 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Members of 2/17 Infantry Battalion and 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion aboard a landing craft vehicle. Personnel are on board No 2 boat of the second wave making their way to the starting line for the landing on Green Beach during the Oboe 6 Operation. Identified, but position unknown are: NX176150 Private (Pte) G Tobin, No 5 Platoon, 2/17 Battalion; NX83086 Pte E W Bowker, C Company, 2/17 Battalion; NX16452 Lance Corporal W G Shaw, C Company, 2/17 Battalion; NX90389 Corporal (Cpl) L W C Harvey, C Company, 2/17 Battalion; Pte R Barry Battalion Headquarters, 2/13 Battalion; NX166257 Gunner H P Ross, No 58 Battery; NX1163 Cpl J J N Cubitt, 2/8 Australian Field Regiment; NX110767 Pte J Hurst, C Company, 2/17 Battalion; NX171390 Pte J P Jacobs, 2/17 Battalion; NX168916 Pte B O’Malverey, A Company, 2/17 Battalion; NX71736 Pte W J Eveline; NX65835 Cpl M R Dean; NX30119 Sgt F Davidson; NX34548 Sgt D Mitchell, 2/2 Australian Machine Gun Battalion; VX93422 Pte D R Norquay.