Marsden matting in PNG
Found this photo in "Battleground South Pacific" by Robert Howlett and photos by Bruce Adams published in 1970.
Caption reads "Marsden Matting designed for muddy airfields planks the footway of a military bridge still in use at Milne Bay".
I imagine many of the relics in the book photographed 55 years ago are now long gone or deteriorated beyond recognition. I bought the book in Rabaul in 1975 when it was a recently published book.
There was a lot of Marsden matting around post war. As a young boy in the fifties in the US I saw it even being used at the Delaware Bay and Cape Hatteras beach areas.
Cheers,
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F15-A 1942 Battery Staff
Jacques Reed
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