PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1914-08. INSCRIPTION ON VERSO: "GROUP OF NATIVES AT RADIO STATION, PORT ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Accession Number P01434.005
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1914-08. INSCRIPTION ON VERSO: "GROUP OF NATIVES AT RADIO STATION, PORT MORESBY, AUG 1914, RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS". A LARGE CROWD OF NATIVES ARE GATHERED, A SERGEANT OF THE ARMED NATIVE CONSTABULARY FACING THEM, WITH FIVE EUROPEANS. NOTE THE BEARDED ELDERLY MAN (FAR LEFT) WITH HIS KIT.(ORIGINAL PRINT HELD IN AWM PR91/102)