During the advance on Salamaua Sergeant Gordon Raymond Charles Ayre MM … in pouring rain assists a wounded mate, Private William Oswald Wallace Johnson….

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[New Guinea, 1943]. Black-and-white press photograph on glossy paper, 205 x 295 mm, with editor s markings by a staff member of the San Francisco Examiner (?); verso with pasted-on cutting from the newspaper issue in which it was printed (with Associated Press Wirephoto credit), stamped Oct 23 1943 , below it the wet stamp Received Examiner Reference Library Oct 23 1943 , and above it the newspaper s later reference library index stamp War-2nd World-New Guninea [sic]-Austrailians [sic] in ; in excellent condition (some mild edge creasing). Australian war photographer and cinematographer Damien Parer s most famous image is this still from his July 1943 newsreel, Assault on Salamaua. It is arguably the most iconic image of Australians at war. This is a near-contemporary press photograph of that image, used in the American media some 3 months after Parer shot his original footage. During the advance on Salamaua VX89711 Sergeant Gordon Raymond Charles Ayre MM, a 58/59th Battalion bandsman from Shepparton, Victoria, in pouring rain assists a wounded mate, VX132355 Private William Oswald Wallace Johnson, of the same unit, across Alan s (Allen s?) Creek to an advanced regimental aid post. Johnson had been wounded by a Japanese grenade on the 13th of July 1943 during an attack on the coconuts area. Sergeant Ayre was awarded the military medal for his performance during this action . (AWM) During World Wat Two Parer was an official War Correspondent for the Department of Information o

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