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Photograph 117255 Second World War, 1939-1945NAURU 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.

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NAURU ISLAND. 1945-09-13. A LOCAL NAURUAN LAD POSES FOR HIS PHOTOGRAPH.
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.

NAURU ISLAND. 1945-09-14. A NAURUAN NATIVE WITH EQUIPMENT WHICH HE HAS SOUVENIRED FROM THE JAPANESE ARMY HEADQUARTERS SOON AFTER PERSONNEL OF THE 31/51ST INFANTRY BATTALION OCCUPIED THE ISLAND.

NAURU ISLAND. 1945-09-14. PRIVATE (PTE) JOPLING (1), PTE S. DART (2) AND PTE A. SPLETTER (3) OF THE 222ND AUSTRALIAN SUPPLY DEPOT PLATOON CHATTING WITH A NAURUAN WOMAN WHILE OUT ON A PATROL.

Nauru Island. 16 September 1945. Private Corfield, 31/51st Infantry Battalion makes friends with a young Nauruan girl soon after the unit had taken over the island from the Japanese.

NAURU ISLAND. 1945-09-13. LIEUTENANT G. A. LORDING, INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY, RECEIVES AN ENTHUSIASTIC GREETING FROM THE NATIVES ON HIS ARRIVAL ON THE ISLAND.

THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, 1945-09-19. JAPANESE FORCES ON NAURU ISLAND SURRENDERED ON 1945-09-13 AND AN ALLIED DECISION WAS MADE TO TRANSPORT THE PERSONNEL TO TOROKINA, BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND, FOR INTERNMENT P
