GONA, PAPUA. CHURCH OF ENGLAND PADRE A.E. BEGBIE IN A SMALL BURIAL GROUND IN A CLEARING PUSHING A ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Northern Province, Gona
Accession Number 013853
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Silk, George
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Northern Province, Gona
Date made 16 December 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

GONA, PAPUA. CHURCH OF ENGLAND PADRE A.E. BEGBIE IN A SMALL BURIAL GROUND IN A CLEARING PUSHING A CROSS INTO THE GROUND AT THE HEAD OF ONE OF THE GRAVES OF SOLDIERS, MANY FROM 55/53RD BATTALION, WHO DIED DURING THE BATTLE FOR GONA. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK).