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Black and white photograph of 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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c. 1941

Overview

Black and white photograph of 140 men of the 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion. Photograph mounted on cardboard. Penciled signature under photograph lower left-hand corner.

Historical information

The 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion was formed late in 1940 comprised entirely of Western Australians. After initial training in Northam W.A. they were moved to Adelaide then Darwin. Sailing via New Guinea, Sydney and Fremantle they eventually landed in Singapore just as the Japanese were preparing to attack the city. Within weeks a third of the battalion were either killed, missing or wounded and the remainder were imprisoned in POW camps.

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Registration number

cwa-org-12-2008.7.6

Item type

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 2

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

387 mm

Height or length

150 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Unknown signature

Keywords

Place made

Western Australia, Australia

Year

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Scientific or research significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Well provenanced

Google Maps search term / URL

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gWHZtRH1mm24SAjK8

Geotag

-35.030449, 117.912878

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