The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Released prisoners of war (POWs) speak with the first white women they have seen in years. Pictured left to right: Lieutenant A Ziske of Minnesota, USA; NX58351 Signalman William John Jones, 8 Corps of Signals, of Hornsby, NSW; NX51530 Pte Arthur Walter Charlton, 2/18 Battalion, of Canberra, ACT; NX31508 Private (Pte) Donald James Alchin, 2/20 Battalion, of Redfern, NSW and NX46155 Driver Allan Ernest Cook, 2/10 Field Ambulance, of Lismore, NSW. All these men were released from Naoestu camp, Japan.
Men of the 8th Division cluster about the first white women they have seen in three and a half years. Left to right: NX40846 Warrant Officer Jack Kendall (Hack) Finley, 2/18 Battalion, of Mosman, NSW;
These Australian men smiling and displaying the Australian flag they are so proud of were amongst 231 prisoners of war (POWs) released and brought into Yokohama in the middle of the night. The latenes
NX51530 Private Arthur Walter Charlton, 2/18 Battalion, of Canberra, ACT, points to where the rising sun badge used to be on his original five-year-old slouch hat. He was a prisoner of war (POW) of th
Korea. February 1953. Members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), and Americans of an incoming infantry battalion chat on the roof of an hutchi on the reverse slope of a front
Changi Prison Camp. Comforts and sweets are issued to released prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese. Left to right: NX56259 Signalman George Edward Wood, 8 Corps of Signals, of Ashfield, NSW; VX565
Yokohama, Japan. 5 September 1945. On the evening of 5 September 1945, 231 prisoners of war (POWs) were brought to Yokohama. They were immediately taken to a delousing station where they were given fo
