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140 Australian General Transport Company

Details:

Title

140 Australian General Transport Company,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

23 Mile,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Army,

Service branch

Transport,

Unit

140 Australian General Transport Company,

Parent unit

Royal Australian Army Service Corp (RAASC),

Date arrived in NT

1942-02,

Date left the NT

1943-04-15,

History

The Company was raised in New South Wales. They travelled by train to Adelaide and were flown to Darwin shortly after the first air raid on 19 February 1942. The Company operated out of Mt Isa when the American forces left.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, Dates: -- Katherine, February 1942 -- 23 Mile, 14 September 1942 to 15 April 1943,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Australia, Army, Royal Australian Army Service Corp (RAASC), Transport, Trucks, 140 Australian General Transport Company,

File type

image/tiff,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/35866 [PictureNT : PH0491/0006, Gun, E. J. Braid Collection], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=34878 [140 Australian General Transport Company],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847612,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847612

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https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847969,