The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of Dr Bernard Haselden Quin. Born in 1894 in Malvern, Victoria, Honorary Captain Quin was serving as Second Government Medical Officer on the Australian-administered island of Nauru when Australia evacuated its administration officers from the island on 28 February 1942. He elected to stay behind as the island's Medical Officer during which time the island was occupied by the Japanese. As a reprisal for the first American raid on the island, Dr Quin was executed by the Japanese on 26 March 1943. Also executed were the Australian Administrator of Nauru Island, Lt Col F R Chalmers; the Australian Medical Assistant, Mr W H Shugg; the Engineer of the British Phosphate Commissioner's staff, Mr F Harmer and the Overseer of the British Phosphate Commissioner's staff, Mr W H Doyle. The men are commemorated on the Chalmers Memorial in Nauru.
C. 1922. STUDIO PORTRAIT OF THE THREE COMMANDING OFFICERS OF 27TH BATTALION DURING WORLD WAR 1. LEFT TO RIGHT: LIEUTENANT COLONEL (LT COL) FREDERICK CHALMERS CMG DSO (COMMANDER 1917-12 TO 1919); LT CO
NAURU ISLAND, 1945-09-13. MR W.V. BOTT, CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE BRITISH PHOSPHATE COMMISSION, BEING GREETED BY CHINESE AND NAURUAN LABOURERS ON HIS RETURN TO THE ISLAND.
This film portrays a Mustard Gas attack carried out on Brook Island under the direction of the following officers. Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel F S Gorill; Officer in charge of the trial Dr A
Nauru, Indian Ocean. c. 1943. Heavy bombing by US Liberator aircraft left smoke rising from phosphate installations on the island. One of the Liberator aircraft flies overhead surveying the damage.
Visiting the front line trenches of the 3rd Division, near Armentieres. Left to right: Captain H C Smart, High Commissioner's Staff; Brigadier General W R McNicholl CB CMG DSO, General Officer Command
BRITISH PHOSPHATE COMMISSION'S STEAMER TRIENZA, WHICH ASSISTED - WITH A SIGHTING REPORT - IN THE INTERCEPTION OF THE ITALIAN MOTOR VESSEL ROMOLO BY HMAS MANOORA, 1940-06-12, 220 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NAU
