The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Lieutenant S. F. Anderson of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group is tending his crop of Kankhon, a green weed used in boiled rice and soup.
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. One of the Australian prisoners of war (POWs) at the Bakli POW Camp liberated by the US Office of Strategic Services, VX40359 Private G. H. Kissick, a memb
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. VX50344 Corporal N. A. Davidson, a member of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group, another sufferer at the Bakli prisoner of war (POW) Camp as a
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. 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
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Rice-grinding machine, used by the Chinese at Hainan Island and brought into the prisoner of war (POW) Camp, for use by the Allied prisoners there, who inc
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Although the Japanese had directed that all sick and debilitated were to be taken to Hainan from Ambon as hospital facilities would be available there, thi
