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MOROTAI, BORNEO 1945-10-22. HMAS ROCKHAMPTON RETURNED TO MOROTAI BRINGING BACK MOST OF THE AUSTRALIAN HALMAHERA FORCE, A LARGE QUANTITY OF JAPANESE EQUIPMENT AND SEVEN SUSPECTED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS. SHE ALSO CARRIED THE CREMATED REMAINS OF FLIGHT SERGEANT EDMUND MCLEOD STEVENSON, RAAF, AND AN ANOTHER UNKNOWN RAAF SERVICEMAN. THE ASHES AND PERSONAL EFFECTS OF THE TWO BEING PIPED ASHORE FROM HMAS ROCKHAMPTON WHILE A NAVY AND ARMY GUARD PRESENT ARMS. THE FIRST CASKET IS BEING CARRIED BY 268 WING COMMANDER R. E. BELL, 82 WING RAAF, THE SECOND BY LIEUTENANT COMMANDER H. K. DWYER, CAPTAIN OF THE ROCKHAMPTON. THE SHIPS FIRST OFFICER SALUTES AT THE FOOT OF THE GANGPLANK AND IN THE FOREGROUND ARE MEMBERS OF THE RAAF GUARD WHO RECEIVED THE CASKETS.
MOROTAI, BORNEO. 1945-10-22. HMAS ROCKHAMPTON RETURNED TO MOROTAI BRINGING BACK MOST OF THE AUSTRALIAN HALMAHERA FORCE, A LARGE QUANTITY OF JAPANESE EQUIPMENT AND SEVEN SUSPECTED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINAL
MOROTAI, BORNEO. 1945-10-22. HMAS ROCKHAMPTON RETURNED TO MOROTAI BRINGING BACK MOST OF THE AUSTRALIAN HALMAHERA FORCE, A LARGE QUANTITY OF JAPANESE EQUIPMENT AND SEVEN SUSPECTED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINAL
MOROTAI, BORNEO. 1945-10-22. HMAS ROCKHAMPTON RETURNED TO MOROTAI BRINGING BACK MOST OF THE AUSTRALIAN HALMAHERA FORCE, A LARGE QUANTITY OF JAPANESE EQUIPMENT AND SEVEN SUSPECTED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINAL
MOROTAI, BORNEO. 1945-10-22. HMAS ROCKHAMPTON RETURNED TO MOROTAI BRINGING BACK MOST OF THE AUSTRALIAN HALMAHERA FORCE, A LARGE QUANTITY OF JAPANESE EQUIPMENT AND SEVEN SUSPECTED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINAL
The corvette HMAS Rockhampton arrives at Morotai carrying fifty eight Japanese war criminals and many crates of booty including swords and articles of equipment along with some eight million yen. All
MOROTAI, BORNEO 1945-10-22. HMAS ROCKHAMPTON RETURNED TO MOROTAI BRINGING BACK MOST OF THE AUSTRALIAN HALMAHERA FORCE, A LARGE QUANTITY OF JAPANESE EQUIPMENT AND SEVEN SUSPECTED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS
