Series:
Collection of Photographs
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
01 Jan 1940
End Date:
30 Dec 1970
Creating Agency:
| Donald Charles Brooks (NG3232) | 01 Jan 1921 | 15 Apr 2005 |
How to Use:
These records are part of the Launceston Manuscript Collection. Copyright assigned to the State Archivist.
Series notes:
Photographs taken in Tasmania, on Gabo Island and at Pago or Drysdale Mission, Western Australia (now known as Kalumburu Community). This was the site of a WWII airbase. On 27 September 1943, the base and settlement were attacked by 21 Japanese Kawasaki Ki-48 bombers, based at Kupang, Timor, with a fighter escort. The Superior of the mission, Father Thomas Gil O.S.B, aged 45 years.and five Aboriginal people ranging from the age of 1 year to 45 years were killed.
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
The first 90 of the 110 items in this series have been digitised. The remaining items have not been digitised as they pertain to non-Tasmanian subjects and in some instances include images of Aboriginal Australians.
Items: