The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Laha, Ambon. 8 December 1945. A group of Japanese (middle foreground) await interrogation by the intelligence officer, 63rd Australian Infantry Battalion, just outside (to the east) of the headquarters building pictured in photograph No. 030388/10. The interrogations were being carried out in connection with the execution in 1942 of Australian and Dutch servicemen by the Japanese. The car (left) is pointing towards the track past the old Dutch garage and to Tawiri Village.
Laha, Ambon. 8 December 1945. The road to Tawiri and the Lawa River, Ambon, along which so many Australian soldiers were marched to their deaths by executions on 6, 15 and 20 February 1942. The camera
Tawiri, Laha, Ambon. 7 December 1945. Three skulls of Australian or Dutch servicemen as they were uncovered in Mass Grave No. 4, located by the 63rd Australian Infantry Battalion, south west of Tawiri
Tawiri, Laha, Ambon. A mass grave of Australian and Dutch servicemen executed by the Japanese on 15 February 1942, after the fall of Ambon, was found south west of Tawiri Village, in the Laha area. Th
Tawiri, Laha, Ambon. 7 December 1945. The early stages of exhumation from Pit No. 1, in the right foreground, at Mass Grave No. 4. In the left background, a Japanese working party, under the direction
Tawiri, Laha, Ambon. 7 December 1945. Skulls of Australian or Dutch servicemen as they were uncovered in Mass Grave No. 4, located by the 63rd Australian Infantry Battalion, south west of Tawiri Villa
Tawiri, Laha, Ambon. 7 December 1945. A Japanese working party, under supervision, trenching around one of the two burial pits at Mass Grave No. 4 site during the disinternment of the remains of Austr
