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Date(s)
- 1949-1958 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
1 box.
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Lloyd C. Yelland was a medical assistant with the Papua New Guinea Dept of Public Health in the 1950s.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Captain John Joseph 'Mangrove' Murphy, patrol officer, prisoner of war and amateur linguist, was born in Queensland in 1914. He was educated at Christian Brothers' College, Maryborough, St Joseph's College, Nudgee and the University of Queensland (although he did not take a degree). He moved to New Guinea in ca.1936 and became a patrol officer, compiling a dictionary of Pidgin English which was published in 1942. He joined the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit and the Allied Intelligence Bureau during the Second World War and was captured in 1943. He was the only Australian among the seven survivors of the Rabaul prisoner of war camp and was tried at court-martial for treason thanks to suspected collaboration with the Japanese: he was honourably acquitted of all charges. Murphy worked as a colonial administrator after the war in the Western and Gulf districts of PNG and returned to Australia in 1969.
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Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1949-1958
Collection alternatively titled as: Lloyd C. Yelland Collection.
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Scope and content
Diaries, medical patrol reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers on administration and public health in Papua New Guinea.
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Unrestricted access.
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Copyright applies.
Language of material
- English
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Existence and location of originals
Copied from the originals in the possession of Lloyd C. Yelland.
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Status
Revised
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, AM, 18-Feb-2020.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.