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Description: Australians from the 2/23rd Battalion raise the Union flag over Wareo, New Guinea, 9 December 1943. GROUP OF OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 2/23RD AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, GROUPED AROUND THE UNIT VICTORY FLAG. THIS FLAG WAS PREVIOUSLY RAISED OVER KOKODA, BUNA AND SATTELBERG. IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE: SX10310 LIEUTENANT COLONEL F. A. G. TUCKER (1) VX8944 LIEUTENANT N. B. GILMOUR, MC. OF PASCOE VALE, VIC, (2) VX19078 PRIVATE J. G. BROSNAN (3) VX75770 PRIVATE T. J. DELANEY (4) VX47649 WARRANT OFFICER (II) F. H. MCLEAN (5) NX135451 PRIVATE J. F. ROBERTS (7)
Title: AWM 061687 2 23rd Bn capture of Wareo 9 December 1943
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