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Papuan stretcher bearers carry an injured Australian soldier across a river on the Kokoda Trail, 1942

Papuan stretcher bearers carry a wounded Australian soldier from the jungle battlefields through mountain streams to the hospital bases behind the lines.

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Australian War Memorial, 013251

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