The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
EMERY POINT, DARWIN, NT. 1946-02-27. JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR COMPOUND DOING THEIR COMPULSORY DAILY EXERCISES BEHIND THE WIRE OF THEIR COMPOUND. JAPANESE CAPTAIN ABE, TO THE LEFT OF THE MAIN GROUP, TAKES THE SQUAD THROUGH THE ROUTINE. AN AUSTRALIAN GUARD FROM THE 12/40TH BATTALION SURVEYS THE PRISONERS FROM HIS LOOKOUT TOWER IN THE FOREGROUND.
EMERY POINT, DARWIN, NT. 1946-02-27. NX193171 PRIVATE R. H. JARDINE, 12/40TH BATTALION, SURVEYING THE JAPANESE PRISONER OF WAR COMPOUND FROM A LOOKOUT TOWER. THE COMPOUND HOUSED PRISONERS ABOUT TO FAC
Darwin, NT. 1946-03-03. Japanese prisoners fix barbed wire in their enclosure next to the guard tower.
EMERY POINT, DARWIN, NT. 1946-02-27. JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR BEHIND THE BARBED WIRE FENCE OF THEIR COMPOUND. THESE MEN WERE TO BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES IN WHAT WERE THE ONLY TRIALS OF THIS TYPE HELD
DARWIN, NT. 1946-02-26. VX41104 CAPTAIN W. SMITH, 12/40TH BATTALION, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE WAR CRIMES COURT AND RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND CONTROL OF THE JAPANESE PRISONER OF WAR COMPOUND
Darwin, NT. 1946-03-03. Japanese prisoners fix barbed wire in their enclosure while Private L. A. Mayne of Campania, Tas, looks on from the guard tower.
EMERY POINT, DARWIN, NT. 1946-03-04. AN AUSTRALIAN GUARD STANDS BY THE GATE AS JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR ACCUSED OF WAR CRIMES MARCH IN AFTER APPEARING IN COURT.
