Report by Lieutenant W. J. Read RANVER on coastwatching activity Bougainville Island, 1941-1943 [microform] / W. J. Read. 1974.

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Report by Lieutenant W. J. Read RANVER on coastwatching activity Bougainville Island, 1941-1943 [microform] / W. J. Read. 1974.

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Photocopy of original typescript. Parts I-XI and appendices A-L, includes detailed contents list; Ts., foolscap, 148pp. Appendix M, M︣ap of Bougainville, missing. Front sheet signed by Jack Read and dated 9 July 1974.

1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Read, W. J.

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Jack Read joined the Australian administration of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea as a Cadet in 1929. He worked as Patrol Officer in most parts of the Territory, having covered New Britain and the mainland from the Sepik River to the Morobe Goldfields, but had not been located in Bougainville until his appointment in November 1941 as Assistant District Officer in charge of the Buka Passage Sub-District, under District Officer Merrylees. Following the Japanese entry into the War...