Albert Speer was born in 1922 in Goulburn, Australia, and served in New Guinea with 2/2 Australian Field Ambulance from 1942-1945. He served in the Department of Public Health in the Australian Administration of Papua and New Guinea from 1947 until his retirement in 1971, initially as a European Medical Assistant and eventually as acting Director of the Medical Training Division. During the period 1954 to 1957 he was active in exploratory patrols establishing health services in uncontacted and uncontrolled highland areas of Papua. Mr Speer also fostered Sir Albert Maori Kiki, among other children. Mr Speer died in Sydney on 16th April 2014.

Note book, 1943-1945. <BR> Diaries, 1947-1956 (gaps) and 1967-1974 (gaps). <BR>Correspondence, 1953-1971 (gaps).<BR> Dept of Public Health, Kerema Station, official reports, correspondence, etc., 1948-1953, including monthly reports, monthly returns of diseases and deaths, and patrol reports and diaries.<BR> Patrol Report No.7, Duna country, northwest of Tari, Southern Highlands, Papua, 1955.<BR> Photograph album Duna country, 1955-1956, together with patrol maps by J. P. Sinclair of the Lavani Valley and north-west Tari area, 1955-1956.<BR> Commonwealth film patrol, Duna area, May-Aug 1957, diary of Albert Speer and related papers.<BR> Sir Albert Maori Kiki's funeral: album holding press cuttings, photographs, etc., Mar 1993.<BR> Miscellaneous papers and photographs, 1951-1993.<P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

These documents are poor quality photocopies of the original manuscripts which had been collected by Kirk Huffman, the former Director of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre. The originals are now said to be missing.

Natulakeana ni nawasiana ni tuai [The beginning of work long ago], 1944<P><b>See reel list for further details</b>