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Lady MOUNTBATTEN and Black Jack GALLEGHAN
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Australian War Memorial caption reads:
SINGAPORE, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 1945-09-12. LADY EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN, SUPERINTENDANT IN CHIEF ST JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE, WIFE OF THE SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER, SOUTH EAST ASIA, CHATTING WITH LIEUTENANT COLONEL F. G. CALLAGHAN DSO ED, COMMANDING OFFICER, 2/30TH INFANTRY BATTALION DURING THE SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER'S INSPECTION OF EX-POWS OF THE JAPANESE IN THE CHANGI GAOL.
The above information is not correct - CALLAGHAN should read GALLEGHAN
Left to right:
1) Lady Edwina MOUNTBATTEN
2) NX70416 - GALLEGHAN (Sir), Frederick Gallagher (Black Jack), Brig. - BHQ. CO. 2/30 Bn. D.S.O., O.B.E., I.S.O., E.D., K.B.
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