The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Rabaul, New Britain, 1945-10. Informal outdoors portrait of three Australian officers, members of a postwar recovery party, with a large group of Chinese prisoners-of-war (POWs) that they have liberated from a Japanese POW camp. The two Australians wearing slouch hats are captains in the Australian Army, while the other Australian is a RAAF Flying Officer. The Chinese are probably captured soldiers of the Nationalist Chinese Army. Dressed in fatigues, they were probably used as a labour gang by their Japanese captors. Behind the group is a rough shelter of bamboo and tarpaulins where the POWs slept. Three wooden buckets, a saucepan and a billy stand next to one of the shelter's supports (left).
Portrait of an unidentified Australian Army lieutenant (right) with a Lieutenant Colonel Woo Yien, commander of the Nationalist Chinese Army in New Britain, at a Japanese prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. T
Rabaul, New Britain, 1945-10. A covered reviewing platform built of bamboo and roofed with matting stands on the parade ground of a former Japanese prisoner-of-war (POW) camp for captured Nationalist
Rabaul, New Britain, 1945-10. The entrance to a Japanese prisoner-of-war (POW) camp for captured soldiers of the Nationalist Chinese Army. The gateway is a bamboo structure which the former POWs have
SOUTH AFRICA, C 1900. LOCATION UNKNOWN. A GROUP OF MOUNTED INFANTRYMEN ENTERTAINING THEMSELVES ON THE VELDT. THOUGH THESE MEN HAVE SLOUCH HATS THEY ARE PROBABLY BRITISH OR SOUTH AFRICAN. (PHOTOGRAPHER
Two unidentified soldiers, probably from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), leave the dugout of an Intelligence Officer at a camp in Korea. They are wearing slouch hats, carryin
Group portrait of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) believed to be in Fukuoka Camp No 7B, just after the Japanese surrender. The group includes a number of men wearing slouch hats, probably Australians.
