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Ramale Mission, Kokopo Area, New Britain. A group of happy nuns at the farewell scene as twenty of a group of 300 white former internees leave Ramale Mission for evacuation to Rabaul to receive medical treatment at 4 Field Ambulance. The internees were liberated when troops of HQ 11 Division occupied the area following the surrender of the Japanese. Identified are: Bishop Leo Scharmach (Polish) (1); Sister (Sr) Rosalia Boonman, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (OLSH) (Dutch) (2); Sr Immaculata Mazengarb, OLSH, (Australian) (3); Sr Bernardine Smiggles OLSH, (Dutch) (4); Sr Gabrilla Van Beek OLSH, (Dutch) (5); Sr Andrea FMM, (French) (6); Sr Hermengildas MSC, (German) (7); Sr Aenesiana Van Dingenin OLSH, (Dutch) (8); Father Bernard Ranke MSC, (German) (9); Sr Lutgarde MSC, (?German) (10); Sr Clematia, MSC (?German) (11); Sr Berenice Twohill OLSH (12). See 096809K for position of those named in this caption.
Reference image only to provide position detail for those named. This image is not for sale. To purchase photograph please order 096809. Ramale Mission, Kokopo Area, New Britain. A group of happy nuns
Ramale Mission, Kokopo Area, New Britain. A group of German missionary sisters, members of the 300 white internees liberated when troops of HQ 11 Division occupied the area following the surrender of
Reference image only to provide position detail for those named. This image is not for sale. Ramale Mission, Kokopo Area, New Britain. A group of German missionary sisters, members of the 158 white in
Vunapope, New Britain. Five nuns seated in a jeep trailer during their evacuation from the Mission in Ramale Valley to Rabaul. Contact with the internees was made by Allied troops and represenatives o
Ramale Mission, Kokopo Area, New Britain. A group of Roman Catholic missionary priests comprising American, Irish, German, Dutch, Austrian, Belgian, French and Czechoslovakian, part of a group of 300
Sisters and Priests boarding an Army barge for transfer to the motor launch Gloria. They are being evacuated from the Mission in Ramale Valley to Rabaul. Contact with the internees was made by Allied
