Historical information

Programme for service held at 4th Aust. Base Chapel TOROKINA - 1900hrs FRIDAY 5th OCT 45 to COMMEMORATE THE FALLEN DURING WW2
Poem was description of last battles of war with a sentiment that critics at home called mopping up but people were still dying.

Physical description

1. Programme for Memorial Service in Bougainville Oct 45. 10 pages stapled together on cream white paper. Contents description of the Service. On front is a cross and a small poem.
2. Poem written in black on white paper heading Bougainville 1945. Poem was talking about the experience of the mopping up battles towards the end of the war.

Inscriptions & markings

Headed- " IN MEMORIAM - BOUGAINVILLE 1945"
"SEVENTH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY REGIMENT"
"A.I.F."