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Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Yujiro Yutani, Commanding Officer of the Kenpeitai (Japanese secret police) on Timor, standing at attention behind a barbed wire fence at the prisoner of war (POW) compound. Lt Col Yutani was one of twenty two Japanese who were tried in Darwin in March and April 1946 for war crimes against allied POWs. Lt Col Yutani was accused of the ill treatment of a British POW and an Australian POW in April-May 1943, as well as the murders of Australian POW, TX3282 Corporal (Cpl) J H Armstrong, 2/40 Battalion, and British POW, Gunner (Gnr) Martin, 79 Light Anti Aircraft Battery, who were executed on Lt Col Yutani's order at Airnona, Timor, on or about 12 June 1943. He was found guilty on all charges and on 29 April 1946 was sentenced to death by shooting for the murders of Cpl Armstrong and Gnr Martin. Lt Col Yutani unsuccessfully appealed against the sentence on the grounds that "the capital punishment is unreasonable and excessive" and that the order to execute Cpl Armstrong and Gnr Martin "was issued as a lawful one and obeyed by me as an operational order". The sentence was carried out on 1 August 1946 at Rabaul. Of the twenty two Japanese tried in Darwin, nine others were found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour, with the maximum sentence being ten years.
Prisoner of War (POW) identification photograph of Lieutenant Commander (Lt Cmdr) Suzuki Naoomi, Japanese Imperial Navy, POW number 282001, Commander Japanese Forces on Ocean Island. Lt Cmdr Suzuki su
AWM254 458/2 - [Written records, 1939-45 War, second series:] [War Crimes Trials Darwin 1946; Files of Captain William Gerald Cole VX98462] Notes and statements related to the murder of Cpl J H Armstr
Thailand. 1945. Captain Noguchi, Imperial Japanese Army, the camp commandant at Kanchanaburi (Kanburi) Officers' camp, was an unrelenting sadist, who did his utmost to humiliate the personnel in this
Rear Admiral (Rear Adm) Tamura Ryukichi, seated in the witness box, undergoing cross-examination during the Kavieng Massacre war crime trial at the No 1 Australian War Crimes Court, Kowloon. The court
On 3 December 1945, the trial of Japanese Sergeant Major Sugino was held at HQ 9th Australian Division. Charge "Having caused to be killed 46 Australian, British and Indian POW at Miri on 10 June 1945
78 Private Arthur Fearnley enlisted in August 1914, and embarked from Australia in October from Sydney aboard HMAT Euripides A14. He was convicted of being absent without leave (AWOL) between 4-29 Oc