Able Seaman Ferguson, Royal Australian Navy, of Tamworth NSW, who was wounded while serving on ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Concord
Accession Number 113042
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker McQuillan, Ernest Mervyn
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Concord
Date made 15 August 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Able Seaman Ferguson, Royal Australian Navy, of Tamworth NSW, who was wounded while serving on HMAS Australia during the Philippine invasion is seen here at 113 Australian General Hospital reading the news of the Japanese surrender from a newspaper held by an unidentified sister of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS).