Fred Palmer Archer - Papers relating to plantations in Wuvulu, Bougainville and Buka, Papua New Guin...
Fred Palmer Archer - Papers relating to plantations in Wuvulu, Bougainville and Buka, Papua New Guinea, 1923-1974
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PMB 1184
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microfilm reels 35 mm
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Microfilm : PMB 1184
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The papers include: letters from Fred Palmer to his family and friends, mainly from Wuvulu Island, Manus District, and from Jame Plantation in Buka, 1923-1928; Report on coast watching activitiy, Bougainville Island, 1941-1943, by W J Read; Archer's Solomon Islands war diaries, 1943; and a set of files arranged by Mrs Roberts from the Archer pap...
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Fred Palmer Archer - Papers relating to plantations in Wuvulu, Bougainville and Buka, Papua New Guinea, 1923-1974
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PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1184
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Microfilm. Canberra, A.C.T. : Produced for the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian National University. 5 microfilm reels
Originals held by Mrs Mary Roberts, Loganholme, Queensland, Australia
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Fred Archer was born in Melbourne in 1890 and died in 1997. He was with the first Australian Imperial Force, came to New Guinea in 1923 and later took over Jame Plantation, Buka Passage, in the Bougainville District of the Territory of New Guinea. Jame Plantation was one of the ex-German plantations sold by the Commonwealth Government in 1926/27 to...
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PMB 1184
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YoldxvN9
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441522
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