The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An Australian soldier walking in the mountainous terrain which is typical of the territory in which members of "Sparrow Force", 2/2 Independent Company, AIF, carried out a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the area around Dili. The soldier is possibly VX28767 Sergeant William (Bill) Ernest Tomasetti, 2/2 Independent Company.
An informal group portrait of members of "Sparrow Force", 2/2 Independent Company, AIF, and Timorese locals with a live crocodile tied to a rod. Locals had carried this crocodile twelve miles as a fri
John 'Paddy' Kenneally and Rufino Alves 'Evaresto' Correia, both Second World War veterans, clasp hands in Dili, East Timor. NX77689 Corporal Kenneally was a member of the 2/2nd Independent Company th
Informal group portrait of soldiers of Sparrow Force. Identified, left to right, is: WX10770 Sergeant (Sgt) Ronald Sprigg; Possibly NX52123 Lieutenant Sydney Carton Speight; NX58995 Warrant Officer Cl
PORTUGUESE TIMOR. 1942. A TIMORESE NATIVE, POSSIBLY A HELPER OF THE 2/2ND INDEPENDENT COMPANY, PART OF SPARROW FORCE, WHICH CONDUCTED GUERILLA OPERATIONS AGAINST THE JAPANESE ON THE ISLAND.
PORTUGUESE TIMOR. 1942. TIMORESE NATIVE SOLDIERS MOUNTED ON HORSEBACK, POSSIBLY HELPERS OF THE 2/2ND INDEPENDENT COMPANY, PART OF SPARROW FORCE, WHICH CONDUCTED GUERILLA OPERATIONS AGAINST THE JAPANES
View of some of the terrain over which the 2/2nd and 2/4th Australian Independent Companies carried out their harassing guerilla operations against the Japanese during 1942-43.