PORT MORESBY. A GROUP OF CHINESE WHOSE AGES RANGE FROM 10 MONTHS TO 70 YEARS WALKED 500 MILES ...

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Accession Number 014362
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made Papua: Port Moresby
Date made 2 March 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

PORT MORESBY. A GROUP OF CHINESE WHOSE AGES RANGE FROM 10 MONTHS TO 70 YEARS WALKED 500 MILES FROM WEWAK TOWARDS MORESBY. THEY LEFT WEWAK AN HOUR AFTER A JAPANESE CONVOY WAS SIGHTED. PICTURE SHOWS TANG SAM 70 YEARS, WIFE CHAN YEE 55 YEARS WITH THE 10 MONTHS OLD BABY OF ONE OF THE PARTY. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN).