The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Lead by flotilla leader HMAS Glenelg under the command of Lieutenant Commander H G Whitebrook RANR, four Australian corvettes, HMAS Cootamundra, HMAS Latrobe, HMAS Junee rendezvous with a barge bearing Japanese officers and interpreter to guide the corevettes through a minefiled into Ambon harbour. One hundred and twenty three Austrlain POW are taken onboard and transferred to Morotai where ambulances meet them at the jetty and transported them to hospital. Mass graves of Australians POW who where beaten and then executed by the Japanese. Scenes on board HMAS Glenelg showing Captain J W Meville, contact Officer 3 Australian POW Contact and Enquiry Unit interviewing Major Wheatley Officer Commanding Ambon POW. Former POWs relaxing on deck Jim Ellis of Aspendale Vic. very thin suffering from malnutrition reading a newspaper, Corporal Clarrie Blackney writing a letter. Last scene shows Provosts escorting Ike Ouchi from HMAS Glenelg. Ike Ouchi was responsible for most of the cruelties inflicted on the Australian POWs.
Australian prisoners of war (POWs) after their release from Ambon following the Japanese surrender, relax and read newspapers on the deck of HMAS Glenelg en route to Morotai. They are on the first sta
Lieutenant Colonel Harold Jackson was Contact Officer (rank at the time was Major) in 3 Australian Prisoner of War Contact and Enquiry Unit and carried out the release and repatriation of POW on Haina
Edwin Harry Medlin, as a lieutenant with the 2/1st Fortress Company, Royal Australian Engineers, and a prisoner of war of the Japanese, 1941-1945. Interviewed by Tim Bowden for the ABC radio program P