The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Outdoors portrait of Captain Joseph Aloysius Courtney, Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal Australian Overseas Base Sub-Area and Commandant of the 1st Australian Detention Barracks at Mount Zion, standing inside a corner of the fence that encloses the barracks compound. The fence is made of heavy gauge wire fixed to strong metal poles and rails and surmounted by several feet of barbed wire. In the foreground (left), flowers are growing in a large tin resting on a tiled pavement at the entrance to a building which may be the barracks administration office. Captain Courtney, who had been a policeman in civilian life, was widely known as 'Jerusalem Joe' for his work as Commandant of the barracks. (Donor M. Worster)
Outdoors portrait of Captain Joseph Aloysius Courtney, Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal Australian Overseas Base Sub-Area. Captain Courtney, who had been a policeman in civilian life, was widely known
Formal outdoors group portrait of the Commandant and staff of the 1st Australian Detention Barracks situated at Mount Zion. The officer sitting in the middle of the second row is Major Joseph Aloysius
Probably Melbourne, Vic. 1932-01-27. Informal outdoors portrait of Sergeant Joseph Aloysius Courtney, a member of the militia unit, the 5th Battalion (Victorian Scottish Regiment), wearing his full a
Vung Tau, South Vietnam. August 1971. Outside the walls of the Australian Force Vietnam (AFV) Detention Barracks in Vung Tau. Note the barbed wire fence and the keep out sign on the gate.
Unidentified Japanese farmer tending his vegetable crop outside the barbed wire fence of the 3 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) barracks at Kure? Note the town in the distance.
Unidentified Japanese farmer tending his vegetable crop outside the barbed wire fence of the 3 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) barracks at Kure? Note the town in the distance.
