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PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1944-05-31. SOME OF THE 66 MEMBERS OF THE 5/11TH SIKH REGIMENT WHO WERE LIBERATED BY AMERICAN FORCED IN THE ADMIRALTY ISLANDS. THEY HAD BEEN CAPTURED BY THE JAPANESE AT THE FALL OF SINGAPORE. LANCE-CORPORAL SOHAN SINGH (4), PLAYS BRIDGE AMONG A GROUP AT THE NEW GUINEA DETAILS DEPOT WHILE AWAITING THEIR RETURN TO INDIA.
PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1944-05-31. LANCE-CORPORAL SOHAN SINGH (1), 5/11TH SIKH REGIMENT, CONTEMPLATES THE RIGHT CARD DURING A GAME OF BRIDGE AT THE NEW GUINEA DETAILS DEPOT. MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT
PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1944-05-31. SEPOY DIDAH SINGH, (1), 5/11TH SIKH REGIMENT, FROM THE PUNJAB PROVINCE, AT THE NEW GUINEA DETAILS DEPOT. SINCE RELEASE FROM JAPANESE CAPTIVITY BY AMERICAN FORCES
New Guinea. At an Australian base, Private Irven Stanley of East Melbourne, Vic, bandages the leg of a Sikh, Hari Singh of Punjab. Freed when American troops attacked the Japanese held Admiralty Islan
New Guinea. At an Australian base, Sikhs who had been used as labourers in the Admiralty Islands and were freed when American troops captured Japanese positions, are given Red Cross comforts, which co
New Guinea. RAAF airmen bring Sikhs, liberated when American troops attacked the Admiralty Islands, to an Australian base. These are the first British troops captured by the Japanese at Singapore to b
New Guinea. At an Australian base, Sikhs liberated from the Japanese when American troops attacked the Admiralty Islands, are given medical attention. These are the first British troops captured at Si
