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YMCA Welfare representative Reg Rye examining a pair of trousers torn by bomb splinters at the YMCA and Australian Comforts Fund Centre, New Guinea

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Y.M.C.A. Welfare Officers’ Task.

With changing methods of transport for the forces in New Guinea, Y.M.C.A. welfare units serving the men have had to adapt their supply lines accordingly.
When Australian troops were fighting over the Owen Stanley trail, supplies and most other things had to be taken by native carriers or such transport as could be used on jungle tracks.
Now, however, landing barges, parachutes, jeeps and blitz buggies are used wherever possible.
Mr. James Mitchell, a Y.M.C.A. welfare officer, now on leave from New Guinea, explained that welfare workers now hitch-hike their gear to forward areas by jeep; spread their tent-flies to form a rough canopy; and set up their tea or coffee urns, their stocks of razor blades, stationary and reading matter – and, of course, their radio sets.
He said this is an illustration of how the welfare worker with forward troops must cope with changing

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