John McInerney's journal [manuscript]. 195?.

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John McInerney's journal [manuscript]. 195?.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223485072

Journal mostly written in New Guinea during World War II when McInerney was serving as a Medical Officer. Includes Kuman vocabularies, descriptions of folklore, and customs and practices of the Dengla-Maguagu people.

126 leaves : 1 port. ; 30 cm.

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McInerney, John Cranston, 1916-1953.

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John Cranston McInerney was born in 1916, grew up on the land near Koorawatha and Cowra, NSW, and went to school at St Patrick's College, Goulburn. He graduated from Sydney University Medical School in 1941, enlisted in the Australian army in September that year, serving as a Medical Officer ranked as Lieutenant in the 2nd 14th Light Field Ambulance in New Guinea and then as Captain in the 2nd 2nd Commando Squadron. He went back to New Guinea after the war, learnt to fly and became District Medi...