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LABUAN ISLAND, NORTH WEST BORNEO 1945-12-03. WARRANT OFFICER 1 STICPEWICH, 8TH DIVISION ARMY SERVICE CORPS WHO WAS ONE OF THE PROSECUTION WITNESSES AT THE FIRST SITTING OF A WAR CRIMES MILITARY COURT IN BORNEO. ONE OF THE SIX SURVIVORS OF THE SANDAKAN TO RANAU DEATH MARCHES, STICPEWICH HAD ESCAPED FROM RANAU ON 1945-07-28 AND CONTACTED SERVICES RECONNAISSANCE DEPARTMENT (SRD) PERSONNEL 34 MILES AWAY. HE KNEW THE ACCUSED, SERGEANT MAJOR TSURUO SUGINO, OF THE BORNEO PRISONER OF WAR AND INTERNEE GUARD UNIT, FROM SANDAKAN PRISON CAMP AND TOLD THE COURT SUGINO HAD BEEN NICKNAMED "THE JERSEY BULL". (PHOTOGRAPHER SGT F. A. C. BURKE)
LABUAN ISLAND, NORTH WEST BORNEO 1945-12-03. THE FIRST SITTING OF A WAR CRIMES MILITARY COURT IN BORNEO WAS HELD AT 9TH DIVISION HEADQUARTERS ON 1945-12-03 AND CONCERNED THE CASE OF SERGEANT MAJOR TSU
LABUAN ISLAND, NORTH WEST BORNEO 1945-12-03. THE FIRST SITTING OF A WAR CRIMES MILITARY COURT IN BORNEO WAS HELD AT 9TH DIVISION HEADQUARTERS ON 1945-12-03 AND CONCERNED THE CASE OF SERGEANT MAJOR TSU
LABUAN ISLAND, NORTH WEST BORNEO 1945-12-03. THE FIRST SITTING OF A WAR CRIMES MILITARY COURT IN BORNEO WAS HELD AT 9TH DIVISION HEADQUARTERS ON 1945-12-03 AND CONCERNED CASE OF SERGEANT MAJOR TSURUO
LABUAN ISLAND, NORTH WEST BORNEO 1945-12-03. THE FIRST SITTING OF A WAR CRIMES MILITARY COURT IN BORNEO WAS HELD AT 9TH DIVISION HEADQUARTERS ON 1945-12-03 AND CONCERNED CASE OF SERGEANT MAJOR TSURUO
LABUAN ISLAND, NORTH WEST BORNEO 1945-12-03. THE FIRST SITTING OF A WAR CRIMES MILITARY COURT IN BORNEO WAS HELD AT 9TH DIVISION HEADQUARTERS ON 1945-12-03 AND CONCERNED THE CASE OF SERGEANT MAJOR TSU
QX9538 Warrant Officer William Hector Sticpewich, 8th Division Australian Army Service Corps (AASC), at left in the dock in court, preparing to give evidence at the Tokyo war crimes trials. Sticpewich
