045147 Accession Number: 045147

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Australian Prisoners of War (POWs) leaving Japan aboard HMS Speaker after the end of the war. Shown here are NX59143 Warrant Officer 2 Cedric John Ewing, 2/20 Battalion (left) and SX10653 (485) Warrant Officer 2 Sydney George (Syd) Barber. This is one of a series of images from negative numbers 045139 to 045157 taken with a camera borrowed by SX10653 Warrant Officer 2 Syd Barber, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, following his release from captivity. The camera belonged to the darkroom of the British escort Aircraft Carrier HMS Speaker. Between 26 September 1945 and mid October 1945, HMS Speaker made a voyage from Nagasaki to Manila repatriating Australian POWs from prison camps in Japan.

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Accession Number
045147
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
September 1945
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor S Barber
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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