The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Eating good food for a change, in the mess of the British hospital ship Tjitjalengka, are these released prisoners of war (POWs), mostly from Naoetsu prison of war (POW) camp in Japan. Standing rear left to right: NX65716 Corporal Ralph Jackson of Auburn, NSW; Signaller (Sig) Charles Birsh (Naoetsu camp) of Bankstown, NSW [NX32841 Charles Alexander Birse]. Seated front: NX40898 Private (Pte) Claude Gordon Fulloon, of Armidale, NSW; NX71812 Sig Frederick de Renzie (Fred) Duncan (Naoetsu camp) of Wollongong, NSW; NX59496 Pte Roland Mushett (Roly) Dean (Itchioka camp) and NX59201 Pte Edward William (Ted) Laws (Naoetsu camp) of Leichhardt, NSW. Pte Dean, 2/19 Battalion, of Duntroon, ACT, enlisted at age 21. His unit was sent to Malaya. He was taken prisoner of war (POW) and after being imprisoned at Changi, was sent with a large group of other Australians to Japan on the Kamakura Maru to work first in the shipyards at Kobe while living in Takatorimichi camp. In 1944-1945 he was a medical orderly, first in Itchioka camp in Osaka, and from early 1945 at Kobe Buen.
Informal group portrait of liberated Australian prisoners of war (POW) onboard the hospital ship 'Tjitjalengka' enjoying a meal en route from Japan to Australia. Standing at rear from left to right: N
Portrait of NX59496 Private Roland Mushett (Roly) Dean of the 2/19th Battalion, of Duntroon, ACT. At age 21 he enlisted and his unit was sent to Malaya. He was taken prisoner of war (POW) and after be
Informal portrait of NX32841 Private (Pte) Charles Alexander Birse, a member of the 2/20th Battalion, who became a prisoner of war (POW) after the fall of Singapore. This identification photograph wa
Informal portrait of Aboriginal serviceman NX31736 Private (Pte) Frederick Beale, 2/20th Battalion as a Prisoner of War (POW) in Naoetsu camp, wearing his POW number, 84, on his jacket. He was capture
Talks of time aboard HMS Shunan on the Endau River, and the Kamakura Maru to POW camp at Naoetsu, Japan; conditions at Naoetsu POW camp; working at the Shin-etsu Chemical plant.
Informal portrait of NX51966 Private (Pte) Frederick Owen Bayliss, a member of the 2/20th Battalion, who became a prisoner of war (POW) after the fall of Singapore. This identification photograph was
