Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

Portion of Vunairima beach. Notice the size of the native canoe being pulled into the shade on the beach. A Chinaman & some of our boys are repairing our boat. While Gordon and I are just out for a 'limlilu'.

Fait partie de Photographs documenting the Methodist Missions at Kabakada, Watnabara and Vunairima, via Rabaul, New Britain

(Back of PMBPhoto7_121a)

Fait partie de Photographs documenting the Methodist Missions at Kabakada, Watnabara and Vunairima, via Rabaul, New Britain

Vunairima Mission House 1.7.28.

Fait partie de Photographs documenting the Methodist Missions at Kabakada, Watnabara and Vunairima, via Rabaul, New Britain

(Back of PMBPhoto7_125a)

Fait partie de Photographs documenting the Methodist Missions at Kabakada, Watnabara and Vunairima, via Rabaul, New Britain

(Back of PMBPhoto7_010a)

Fait partie de Photographs documenting the Methodist Missions at Kabakada, Watnabara and Vunairima, via Rabaul, New Britain

Monuments related to war and the Free French movement in the Pacific

AU PMB PHOTO 149
Collection
2019 - 2023

This collection of 102 born digital photographs was taken by French-Moroccan historian, Yacine Benhalima, during the course his PhD field research into the Free French (France Libre) movement during the Second World War, particularly in the French Pacific territories of French Polynesia (Tahiti) and New Caledonia. The images depict commemorative monuments to leader of the Free French or France libre movement, General Charles de Gaulle, and others who served in defense of France, particularly in World War Two. It also depicts other sites of significance and commemoration to the first and second world wars in the Pacific, and in France, the United States of America (Hawaii) and Australia.

Benhalima, Yacine