Australian Prisoners of War (POWs) leaving Japan aboard HMS Speaker after the end of the war. ...

Place Asia: Japan
Accession Number 045139
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Barber, Sydney George
Place made Japan
Date made 26 September 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Australian Prisoners of War (POWs) leaving Japan aboard HMS Speaker after the end of the war. NX45369 Sergeant Leslie Donald Ray (Don) Abbott, 2/20 Battalion, gives the thumbs up sign to the Japanese coastline. This is one of a series of images from negative numbers 045139 to 045157 taken with a camera borrowed by SX10653 (485) Warrant Officer Class 2 Sydney George (Syd) Barber, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, following his release from captivity. The camera belonged to the darkroom of the British escort Aircraft Carrier HMS Speaker. Between 26 September 1945 and mid October 1945, HMS Speaker made a voyage from Nagasaki to Manila repatriating Australian POWs from prison camps in Japan.