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Old 1st Jun 2018, 07:52
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David Billings
 
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11th Battalion Vet Don Angwin received the map from 11th Bn Vet Len Willoughby in 1993 or maybe earlier is my understanding. They were both in "D" Company. When I said to Don that PX were sending me down to Perth in July/August 1994, he looked at the map and took it for photocopying.... He removed the tape which he described as "old masking tape." On my colour copy of the bottom half (only) you can see where pulling the tape off has removed some of the tint of the yellowish border. You can also see the foldline. It is an American Army produced map from 1943 and as explained to me the folding of the edges was done so that when folded it would fit an Australian mapcase. How correct that is I don't know because I have no knowledge of the size of an Australian Army mapcase of the period.

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