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Papuan stretcher bearers help an injured Australian soldier on the Kokoda Trail, 1942

Papuan stretcher bearers stop at a river to give a drink of water to their patient, Private A. Baldwin, of the 2/33rd Battalion.

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Australian War Memorial, 026856

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