019394 Accession Number: 019394

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Informal group portrait of Australian prisoners of war (POWs) at the Notogawa Camp near Osaka after the Japanese surrender. The men, on their bunks suffered malnutrition and considerable loss of weight. Identified from left to right: WX16448 Private (Pte) Albert Wilfred Lance Park, 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion from Claremont, Western Australia; NX26633 Gunner Thomas Reginald O'Mullane, 2/15 Field Regiment from Brighton-Le-Sands, NSW; VX56893 Sapper Ernest Victor Smith, 8th Australian Division Mobile Laundry and Forward Reconnaissance Unit from Koondrook, Vic; and NX47523 Pte Arthur Kelso Power, 2/30th Battalion from Kyogle, NSW.

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Accession Number
019394
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
1945
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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