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Ohasi, Japan. 1945-08-28. Group portrait of some members of the crew of the New Zealand cargo vessel M.V. Hauraki and other prisoners of war (POWs) at the Japanese POW and internment camp at Ohasi. POWs were moved to Ohasi just prior to the end of the war and were billeted in a small theatre. M.V. Hauraki was captured by the Japanese armed merchant cruisers Aikoku Maru and Hokoku Maru in the Indian Ocean on 12 July 1942. Left to right: back row: W.P. Hall, 3rd engineer, W. Speekbreenk, Dutch engineer, James D. Innes, 7th engineer, V. Bladern, Dutch engineer, C.T. Hurley, 4th engineer, D.K. Scott, 11th engineer, D. McCalum, ship's carpenter, A. Alexander, greaser, E. Jacobsen, ship's cook, and F. Chamberlain, marine superintendent Malay States Steam Ship Company. Middle row: D. Taylor, L.H. Russel, and McGee (all from America), W.C. Falconer, chief engineer, N. Hedlund, electrician, A.B. Creese, captain, J.R. Gable, 10th engineer, A. Meridith, 8th engineer, and Weir, another American. Front row: E. McReady, steward, D. Butler, W. Fairey, and S. Hewitt (all from America), R.L.B. Thomson, 2nd Engineer, A. Lindsay, wireless operator, Galloway, (an American), J. Harland, greaser and R. Bell, assistant cook. W.E. Porteous, 6th engineer and G.N. Mutton, 9th engineer, were in hospital when the photograph was taken. (Original print housed in the AWM Archive Store) (Donor J. Innes)
Ohasi, Japan. 1945-08-28. Group portrait of officers from the New Zealand cargo vessel Hauraki and the Japanese crew from Hokoku Maru, at the Japanese prisoner of war (POW) and internment camp. POWS w
SYDNEY, NSW. 1941-08-24. AERIAL STARBOARD SIDE VIEW OF THE NEW ZEALAND CARGO VESSEL HAURAKI WHICH WAS SUNK BY THE JAPANESE ARMED MERCHANT CRUISERS AIKOKU MARU AND HOKOKU MARU IN THE INDIAN OCEAN ON 19
FREMANTLE, WA. 1941-01-02. PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE DUTCH TANKER GENOTA, WHICH WAS SUNK BY THE JAPANESE ARMED MERCHANT CRUISERS AIKOKU MARU AND HOKOKU MARU 1600 MILES SOUTH OF CEYLON ON 1942-05-09. (NAVA
AERIAL STARBOARD SIDE VIEW OF THE DUTCH TANKER ONDINA WHICH, ON 1942-11-11, IN COMPANY WITH THE CORVETTE HMIS BENGAL, FOUGHT THE JAPANESE ARMED MERCHANT CRUISERS AIKOKU MARU AND HOKOKU MARU, SINKING T
Damaged length of oil pipe. The piece has many bullet and shrapnel entry and exit holes. In 1942 Japanese commerce raiders and submarines plied the southern oceans seeking to destroy merchant vessel
Collection relating to the MV Ondina of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. Collection consists of accounts of action between MV Ondina, and two Japanese raiders in the Indian Ocean on 11 November 1942; var