The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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.
VX44906 Lieutenant Colonel A G Cameron DSO and Bar (left), waits to place his wreath during a memorial ceremony at Rabaul. He had been second in charge of A Company, 2/22 Battalion, when the Japanese
On 1 October 1945, Lieutenant General Yoshihara, Chief of the General Staff, 18 Japanese Army and Commander of the Japanese compound on Muschu was ordered to improve the hospital site, lay paths and g
On 30 November 1945 at 6 Australian Division HQ, Wewak, a Military Court tried Japanese war criminal Lieutenant Tazaki and passed the death sentence. Tazaki was charged with the mutilation of the dead
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX23557 Corporal Norman Harold Furness, 2/22 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, New Britain and Australia, c1940-20