The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Morotai, Halmahera Islands. 1945. General view of the 1st Australian Compound for Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) at Morotai. Two Japanese POWs are filling buckets and petrol cans with water. Note the barbed wire fences.
Morotai, Halmahera Islands. 1945. An Australian soldier reads the notice outside the main entrance to the 1st Australian Compound for the Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) at Morotai. Part of it reads:
Morotai, Halmahera Islands. 1945. A Japanese prisoner of war (POW), under Australian guards, carry out work outside the 1st Australian Compound for Japanese POWs at Morotai. POWs built the compound un
Morotai, Halmahera Islands. 1945. Two Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) at the 1st Australian Compound at Morotai, making souvenirs. On the table before them are money boxes made from coconuts.
Morotai, Halmahera Islands. 1945. Washing facilities are provided at the 1st Australian prisoners of war (POWs) compound at Morotai, for Japanese prisoners. A Japanese POW is shown boiling his shirt w
Morotai, Halmahera Islands. 1945. Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) regularly have physical culture at the 1st Australian Compound at Morotai. They are allowed to carry out Judo (a form of Jui-Jitsu) f
Morotai, Halmahera Islands. 1945. One of the two wards where Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) hospital patients are cared for at the 1st Australian Compound at Morotai. They receive the same food as t
