Commemoration service Rabaul

During May 1942, 800 Allied prisoners of war and internees embarked on the vessel Montevideo Maru at Rabaul for shipment to Japan; she was subsequently sunk en route. On 23 January 1946, four years after the landing of Japanese on Rabaul, a commemoration service was held at Vulcan Beach to honour those who lost their lives. Also identified: Lieutenant Colonel Allen; VX44906 Lt Col Allan Gordon Cameron DSO and Bar, formerly 2/2nd Battalion, now CO 26th Australian Infantry Battalion; PX129 (P427) Major Charles Dowson Bates MC, CO Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit; NX3 Brigadier Kenneth William Eather CBE DSO ED, General Officer Commanding 11th Australian Division.