The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. The Dutch latrine in one of the coolie barracks which housed Allied prisoners of war (POWs), (including members of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group), at the Bakli POW Camp. Bottles of water are used by the Dutch in normal life, in lieu of toilet paper.
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. The Dutch Hospital latrine with its bottles of water used in place of toilet paper. The Dutch insisted on bringing these latrines into the Bakli prisoner o
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Dutch prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese at the Bakli POW Camp, standing alongside buckets of urine used in the gardens of the prisoners. They are, le
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Walker of the US Office of Strategic Services, who assisted in the liberation of the prisoners of war (POWs) in Bakli POW Camp after Japan's cap
Sama Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Informal portrait of Lieutenant Walker, a member of the US Office of Strategic Services, of which a detachment liberated Allied prisoners of war (POWs), inc
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Dutch prisoners of war (POWs) being evacuated from the POW Camp by bus to the train which took them to the Japanese Naval Hospital, Sama Bay. On the extrem
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Because the diet at the prisoner of war (POW) Camp on Hainan was grossly deficient, it was necessary for the POWs to cultivate their own gardens. Here Lieu
