The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
TX3994 Sergeant (Sgt) Peter McGrath-Kerr (left) and TX3973 Private (Pte) George Harold Page, both of 2/40th Battalion, making a topographical survey with the aid of a plane table and barr and stroud range finder north of Brighton camp in Black Bush training area. Whilst serving with the 2/40th Battalion in Timor both men were taken Prisoner of War (POW) by the Japanese; Pte Page was interred in a camp in Thailand whilst Sgt McGrath-Kerr was held in Java until May 1944. Sgt McGrath-Kerr was one of several hundred Australian, British and American POWs aboard the Tamahoko Maru en route to Japan when the ship was torpedoed and sunk by the US submarine Tang on 24 June 1944. One of only 212 survivors, he was transferred to the Fukuoka No 13 POW camp in Nagasaki, where he later survived the atomic bomb blast.
Studio portrait of TX3994 Sergeant Peter McGrath-Kerr, 2/40 Infantry Battalion. He survived the fighting in Timor in 1942 and was later taken a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese. He also survived
BRIGHTON, TASMANIA, SEPTEMBER 1940. PRIVATE JOHN LORD ON PLANE TABLE AND PRIVATE GEORGE PAGE USING A BARR AND STROUD RANGE FINDER NORTH OF BRIGHTON CAMP IN BLACK BUSH TRAINING AREA.
Informal group portrait of NX42085 Private (Pte) Robert Victor (Bob) Watkins, 2/19 Infantry Battalion (left) with his father. Pte Watkins was a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese and was one of two
Informal Portrait of NX42085 Private (Pte) Robert Victor (Bob) Watkins, 2/19 Infantry Battalion, prior to joining the Second AIF. Pte Watkins was later a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese and was
Informal portrait of NX37973 Private (Pte) James William Bailey. Pte Bailey enlisted on 4 July 1941 with 2/12 Field Ambulance in Annandale, NSW. He was taken prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese whil
Informal portrait of Private (Pte) NX45070 William Edward Smith, 3rd Reserve Motor Transport Company, of West Wyalong, NSW. Pte Smith, aged 24, was taken prisoner of war. He along with many other pri
