AWM 013256

About a dozen New Guinea locals carrying two stretchers across a river. The barefooted locals are mainly wearing shirts and wrap around skirts. They are walking on a number of thin tree trunks which have been laid across the river as an improvised bridge.

Parer was keen to show Australians the difficult conditions faced by the troops in New Guinea. In this image wounded soldiers are being carried over a stream by New Guinean locals in September 1942. [AWM 013256]

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AWM 013256
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Australian War Memorial

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