The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
SOME OF THE TROOPS RETURNING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST PER THE TROOP TRANSPORT SHIP HMT ORCADES. THEY ARE IN THE BACK OF A TRUCK, PROBABLY HAVING JUST DISEMBARKED. RETAINED TO DEFEND THE DUTCH AIRFIELDS ON JAVA, THESE MEN BECAME KNOWN AS BLACKFORCE AND WERE TAKEN PRISONER OF WAR BY THE JAPANESE.
TROOPS IN THE BACK OF A TRUCK, HAVING RECENTLY DISEMBARKED FROM THE TROOP TRANSPORT SHIP HMT ORCADES WHICH WAS BRINGING THEM FROM THE MIDDLE EAST. MANY OF THE TROOPS DISEMBARKED AT BATAVIA WHERE THEY
AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS WITH LOCAL INDONESIANS TRYING TO SELL THEM FRUIT. THEY WERE AMONG THE MANY MEN WHO WERE RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA FROM THE MIDDLE EAST PER THE TROOP TRANSPORT SHIP HMT ORCADES, WHICH
AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS WITH LOCAL INDONESIANS TRYING TO SELL THEM FRUIT. THEY WERE AMONG THE MANY MEN WHO WERE RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA FROM THE MIDDLE EAST PER THE TROOP TRANSPORT SHIP HMT ORCADES, WHICH
AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER STANDING GUARD WITH MEMBERS OF THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES ARMY. HE WAS ONE OF THE MANY MEN WHO WERE RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA FROM THE MIDDLE EAST PER THE TROOP TRANSPORT SHIP HMT
AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER STANDING GUARD WITH MEMBERS OF THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES ARMY. HE WAS ONE OF THE MANY MEN WHO WERE RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA FROM THE MIDDLE EAST PER THE TROOP TRANSPORT SHIP HMT
AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS WHO WERE RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA FROM THE MIDDLE EAST PER THE TROOP TRANSPORT SHIP HMT ORCADES. THEY ARE WAITING AT THE TOP OF THE GANGPLANK, WHICH IS GUARDED BY A NETHERLANDS EAST
