The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The band of 2/22 Battalion, with the battalion formed up at the rear, about to move off during the Anzac Day Service. The band was unique, as 23 members were originally Salvation Army bandsmen. They enlisted as a band under their Bandmaster, Arthur Gullidge, and were assigned to 2/22 Battalion. The battalion was sent to garrison Rabaul as the infantry unit in Lark Force, arriving in New Britain in March and April 1941. The battalion suffered 571 men killed either during the New Britain campaign or later as prisoners of war following the Japanese invasion of January 1942. Some were executed by the Japanese at Tol. Many were held at Rabaul, New Britain until 22 June 1942 when an estimated 845 POWs and 209 civilians embarked aboard the Japanese transport ship MV Montevideo Maru. The POWs were members of 2/22 Battalion, No. 1 Independent Company, and other units of Lark Force. Civilians included officials of the New Guinea Administration and missionaries. The ship sailed unescorted for Hainan Island. On 1 July 1942 all the prisoners died when the Montevideo Maru was torpedoed by a US Navy submarine, USS Sturgeon, off the coast of Luzon Island in the Philippines. Only one member of 2/22 Band, VX29061 Private Frederick William Kollmorgen, survived the 1942 New Britain campaign.
The band of 2/22 Battalion about to move off during the Anzac Day Service. The band was unique in that the 23 of the members of the band were originally Salvation Army bandsmen. They enlisted as a ban
Studio portrait of VX37496 Private (Pte) Kenneth Rawie Drew, 2/22 Battalion, of Wallaroo SA. Pte Drew was a member of the Brunswick Salvation Army Band. Twenty three members of the Salvation Army band
A large, roughly cut rock with a bronze plaque embedded, marks the 1942-1945 memorial to members of 2/22 Battalion. The memorial was unveiled on 16 September 1993. The battalion was sent to garrison R
A hewn slab of granite marks the memorial to members of 2/22 Battalion, in Queen Elizabeth II Park. The memorial was unveiled on 16 September 1993; an inscription on marble reads '2/22nd Batt Associat
Informal portrait of VX40805 Corporal Herbert William Morgan, 2/22 Battalion, of Fairfield Park, Victoria. Prior to enlistment, Cpl Morgan was a member of the Brunswick Salvation Army band. In 1940, 2
Starboard side view of the Japanese passenger ship MV Montevideo Maru. On 22 June 1942 an estimated 845 prisoners of war (POWs) and 209 civilians captured by Japanese forces embarked from Rabaul, New
