The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Chinese soldiers. A set of bamboo steps leads up to the platform, which was used by the Japanese to review POWs lined up on the parade ground. With the Japanese surrender at the end of the war, the former POWs have erected signs written in Chinese characters on the front and sides of the platform, and have decorated it with a line of drawings strung on a wire to represent a row of Chinese lanterns. At the rear of the platform, the POWs have mounted a portrait of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, a pennant covered in Chinese characters and Nationalist Chinese flags and other symbols.
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. 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
Sian, Kiangsi Province, China, 1942-02. A road crowded with Chinese pedestrians and a lone bicycle rider, leading to one of the city gates. The members of British Military Mission 204 visited the city
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-09-14. CHINESE MEMBERS OF THE CHUNG WAH CLUB TOASTING THE NEW PRESIDENT OF CHINA, GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK, IN THEIR CLUB ROOMS. BENEATH THE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE GENERALISSIMO O
Cairo, Egypt. c. 22 November 1943. At a conference at which officials, military leaders and the heads of the government of the United States, China and England conferred, are, left to right: Generalis
Cairo, Egypt. c. 22 November 1943. Group portrait taken in the outdoors during a conference at which officials, military leaders and the heads of the Government of the United States, China and England
