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Greetings from Syria

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Postcard, photographer unknown, circa 1941, writing on reverse by Leslie 'Bull' Allen, Allen Family Private Collection.

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Allen Family Private Collection

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Reproduction of the writing on reverse by permission of the Allen Family only.

Copyright

The front photograph is out of copyright. The writing on the reverse is owned by the Allen Family.

This postcard photograph is of Bull in the snow (marked with the ‘x’) with two other men, taken in Syria.

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Greetings from Syria

Story credits

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In Memory of Bull Allen

Pushing Towards Salamaua: New Guinea in World War 2

Saving Twelve Men: Mount Tambu

What Bull Allen was Like

Bull Allen on Mount Tambu

Map of New Guinea, 1934.

Steep Ridges

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Greetings from Syria

Bull in a China Shop

Life After War

Bull's Plaque

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