The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Views of the Astana (native for Rajah's Palace) situated on the north bank of the Sarawak River. The Palace was used by General Yanamura as Japanese headquarters, Sarawak, and is now Kuching Relief Force HQ. 437351 (SX3295) Brigadier Thomas Charles Eastick DSO ED, Commander, Royal Artillery, 9th Australian Division and 5905009 (58000, WX174, WX700176) Major Thomas Angelo Rodriquez MC Brigade Major, leaving the front entrance. Formerly this Palace was the residence of Rajah Vyner Brooke. Interior lounge of the palace. View of the palace from across the river.Street scen in Kuching. Bugler blows quater warning for lunch. Clock in the square has stopped. Japanese guard on duty at the airstrip. Road to the Cemetery at the Prisoner of War (POW) camp, Kuching. Demonstraion of the burial of a POW. As coffins were scare, the body was taken to the grave ina coffin, dropped as shown and the coffin reused time and time again. Pan left to right of the grave yard where six hiundred prisoners were buried.
Scenes taken at POW camp, Kuching, where some one thousand three hundred people, British, Australian troops and civilians and some Roman Catholic priests had gathered. Parade for visit of 351001 (VX7)
Lieutenant Colonel Harold Jackson was Contact Officer (rank at the time was Major) in 3 Australian Prisoner of War Contact and Enquiry Unit and carried out the release and repatriation of POW on Haina
