The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
July 1945. Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. A captured Imperial Japanese Army Type 94 'TE-KE' tankette found immobile in a field workshop by the 1st Australian Armoured Regiment. After the war the tankette was brought to Australia and added to the collection of the Australian War Memorial.
It was assigned the collection number REL/16287 and for a period during the 1980's it was on display in the lower galleries of the Memorial alongside the Memorial's Renault FT tank and a British Mark IV 'female' tank named 'Grit'.
The Type 94 Tankette was again put on display during 1995 as part of a temporary exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the end of the Second World War which was entitled "Legacy". At the conclusion of this exhibition it was removed from public display and stored within the Treloar Technology Centre in Mitchell, ACT.
Brian Bourke, 1st Australian Armoured Regiment, sitting in a captured Type 94 Japanese tankette, serial number 88, on the beach. The tankette was captured on 1 July 1945 by 2/9 Battalion, 18th Infantr
Australian soldiers sit on a captured Type 94 Japanese tankette, serial number 88, on the beach. Left to right: Trooper Doug Jasprizza, Trooper Kevin Brett, Trooper Brian Bourke (sitting in turret), T
KOEPANG, TIMOR. 1945-09-14. A NUMBER OF JAPANESE TYPE 94 'TE-KE' TANKETTES AND TYPE 95 'HA-GO' LIGHT TANKS, WHICH WERE PARTLY DESTROYED BY FIRE BEFORE BEING FOUND BY MEMBERS OF TIMFORCE.
Captured vehicles and tank used by the Japanese in patrolling the city of during the early stages of the declaration of an Indonesian Republic under the Soekarno (Sukarno) Government. From left to ri
A BL 6 inch Mark VII naval gun being removed from the Australian War Memorial outdoor collections area at the Exhibition Buildings in Carlton Gardens. The destination, and current location of this ite
Yellow embroidered shoulder patch "ACCREDITED / WAR / CORRESPONDENT" on a dark green wool ground. Worn by Bert Castellari a correspondent with the Sydney 'Daily Telegraph' and the Melbourne 'Argus'