The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 under the direction of the Commandant Major J. E. Kay of Melbourne, Vic. Note the barbed fence behind the POWs.
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. 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 th
Morotai, Halmahera Islands. 1945. Japanese prisoner of war (POW) cooks make national dishes for their fellow POWs in the 1st Australian Compound at Morotai.
Morotai, Halmahera Islands. 1945. Two smiling Australian soldiers watch as a Japanese prisoner of war (POW) walks through the main entrance of the 1st Australian Compound for the Japanese POWs at Moro
Balikpapan, Borneo. c.1945-07. Japanese prisoners work outside the barbed wire fence which surrounds the No. 5 Japanese prisoner of war (POW) compound. (Original print housed in the AWM Archive Store)
Morotai, Halmahera Islands. 1945. Japanese prisoner of war (POW) cooks filling mess tins with rice from a dixie at the 1st Australian Compound at Morotai.
