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Accession Number | 011779/36 |
Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Negative |
Maker |
Bottomley, Clifford |
Place made | Netherlands East Indies: Java, Batavia |
Date made | c February 1942 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER STANDING GUARD WITH MEMBERS OF THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES ARMY. HE WAS ONE ...
Description
AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER STANDING GUARD WITH MEMBERS OF THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES ARMY. HE WAS ONE OF THE MANY MEN WHO WERE RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA FROM THE MIDDLE EAST PER THE TROOP TRANSPORT SHIP HMT ORCADES, WHICH DISEMBARKED MANY OF THE TROOPS AT BATAVIA WHERE THEY BECAME BLACKFORCE AND WERE TAKEN PRISONER OF WAR BY THE JAPANESE.