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After the surrender of Japan, Allied prisoners of war (POWs) including the remnants of the 1/21st ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
After the surrender of Japan, Allied prisoners of war (POWs) including the remnants of the 1/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, were l...030372/03
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A grave site (mass grave No 3) to the north-east of the Tawiri Valley, where bodies of 61 ...
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Maker: Stewart, Ronald Leslie
A grave site (mass grave No 3) to the north-east of the Tawiri Valley, where bodies of 61 Australians (including men of 2/21st Battalion, Gull Force and RAAF personnel) and Dutch servicemen were found...124422
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AMBON, 1945-09-10. EMACIATED SURVIVORS OF 2/21ST BATTALION AIF WHO HAD BEEN PRISONERS OF WAR OF ...
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AMBON, 1945-09-10. EMACIATED SURVIVORS OF 2/21ST BATTALION AIF WHO HAD BEEN PRISONERS OF WAR OF THE JAPANESE FOR SEVERAL YEARS, ON THE DAY THEY WERE EVACUATED BY HMAS JUNEE FOR MOROTAI.P00541.002
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Ambon, Netherland East Indies. 1960-05. The grave of VX35406 Private W.T. Doolan, 2/21st ...
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Ambon, Netherland East Indies. 1960-05. The grave of VX35406 Private W.T. Doolan, 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion, in the Commonwealth War Cemetery. Private Doolan was killed by the Japanese, on ...042594
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AMBON. WHITE WOODEN CROSS, GRAVE L. C. 13 IN GALALA CEMETERY, INSCRIBED "C. OF E. VX25068 PTE ...
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AMBON. WHITE WOODEN CROSS, GRAVE L. C. 13 IN GALALA CEMETERY, INSCRIBED "C. OF E. VX25068 PTE A.W. BRANSON, 2/21 AUST INF BN, AIF, 7.8.45". BRANSON DIED WHILE A PRISONER OF WAR OF THE JAPANESE. (PHOTO...P01269.002
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An informal portrait of VX31221 Private George Trezise a member of the B Company mortar ...
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Maker: Gilbert, Maric Jeggo
An informal portrait of VX31221 Private George Trezise a member of the B Company mortar detachment, 2/21st Battalion (Gull Force). This photograph was taken at the mortar position above the village of...P07476.002
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Armstrong, James Frederick (Private, 2/21st Bn, AIF b.1919 - d.1944)
Private Record
Maker: Armstrong, James Frederick
Original diary kept by Armstrong while serving with the 2/21 Battalion and later as a POW of the Japanese. The diary covers the period 13 Dec. 1941 - 1 Sept. 1943. There is also a typed copy and a pho...PR89/165
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Arrowsmith, W C (Private d.1942)
Private Record
Maker: Arrowsmith, W C
Letters to his family commenting on training and life in the Darwin area, and active service on Ambon, describing Japanese air raids and high morale in the battalion. Arrowsmith was killed in action i...PR00463
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Ashton, George (Private, b.1910 - d.1994)
Private Record
Maker: Ashton, George Rootsey, Marilla
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX54217 Private George Ashton, 2/21 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Netherlands East Indies and Australia, 1941-...PR05728
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2/21 Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
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Coverage of the historic march by the 2/21 Battalion AIF. The 2/21 Battalion AIF formed at Trawool, near Seymour, VIC in August 1940. Southern Command ordered that all 8 Division units with the excep...F03503
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Australia Service Medal : Lieutenant M H MacDowell, 2/21 Battalion
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Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/02986.005
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Although the Japanese had directed that all sick and ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Although the Japanese had directed that all sick and debilitated were to be taken to Hainan from Ambon as hospital facilities would be available there, thi...030358/01
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Although the Japanese had directed that all sick and ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Although the Japanese had directed that all sick and debilitated were to be taken to Hainan from Ambon as hospital facilities would be available there, thi...030357/07
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Australian and Dutch kitchen at the prisoner of war ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Australian and Dutch kitchen at the prisoner of war (POW) Camp. Lieutenant Colin McCutcheon, a member of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group (fo...030356/02
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Australian prisoners of war (POWs) outside their hut ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Australian prisoners of war (POWs) outside their hut at the Bakli POW Camp. They are all member of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group captured ...030359/04
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Captain Leonard Woods (right), of the US Office of ...
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Captain Leonard Woods (right), of the US Office of Strategic Services, with a Japanese private, on board the engine of the train which transported released...030352/02
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Dutch prisoners of war (POWs) assisting one of their ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Dutch prisoners of war (POWs) assisting one of their sick comrades at the POW Camp. Leaning against the door jamb is NX42145 Corporal L. O. Pyers (right), ...030364/04
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Evacuation of ex-prisoners of war (POWs), including ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Evacuation of ex-prisoners of war (POWs), including members of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group, to Sama Bay. The USA flag, which was made fr...030351/06
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Japanese repairing a bath in the prisoner of war ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Japanese repairing a bath in the prisoner of war (POW) wash room in the POW Camp where Allied prisoners are imprisoned, including some members of the 2/21s...030356/07
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO (centre), ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO (centre), Officer Commanding 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion and Senior Officer at the Bakli prisoner of war (PO...030360/03
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO (centre), ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO (centre), Officer Commanding 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion and Commander of Gull Force on Ambon, with two of h...030360/02
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO (left), ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO (left), Officer Commanding 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion and his Adjutant, Lieutenant Ron Green, in the former...030359/07
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer Commanding, 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion, standing beside the grave of VX27333 Private K. O'Bryan wh...030368/01
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer Commanding, 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion, standing beside the grave of NX20111 Sergeant B. P. Byrne,...030368/03
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer Commanding, 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion, standing beside the graves of VX36466 Private R. H. Willia...030368/02
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer Commanding, 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion, standing beside the grave of VX26377 Private J. Dorrington...030368/04
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer Commanding, 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion and Gull Force on Ambon, with his officers at the Bakli pri...030360/05
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer Commanding, 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion and Gull Force on Ambon, with his officers at the Bakli pri...030360/04
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer Commanding 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion and commanded Gull Force on Ambon, outside the Australian Ba...030360/01
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer Commanding, 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion, standing beside the grave of VX30872 Private R. R. Hubbard...030367/05
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer Commanding 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion and Senior Officer at the Bakli prisoner of war (POW) Camp, ...030359/06
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer Commanding, 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion, standing beside the grave of VX26511 A/Sergeant K. R. Gild...030367/06
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Walker of the US Office of Strategic ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Walker of the US Office of Strategic Services, on board the engine of the train which transported released prisoners of war (POWs), including me...030352/01
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Members of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Members of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group, who were liberated by a detachment of US Office of Strategic Services, after the surrender of Ja...030351/04
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. One of the Australian prisoners of war (POWs) at the ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. One of the Australian prisoners of war (POWs) at the Bakli POW Camp liberated by the US Office of Strategic Services, VX40359 Private G. H. Kissick, a memb...030359/02
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. QX16243 Private H. O. Robinson, a member of the ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. QX16243 Private H. O. Robinson, a member of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group, who was captured on Ambon, in the Bakli prisoner of war (POW) C...030358/05
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Rice-grinding machine, used by the Chinese at Hainan ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Rice-grinding machine, used by the Chinese at Hainan Island and brought into the prisoner of war (POW) Camp, for use by the Allied prisoners there, who inc...030356/01
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. VX38728 Corporal L. D. Benvie, a member of the ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. VX38728 Corporal L. D. Benvie, a member of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group, a survivor of the action at Laha, Ambon, and VX22392 Signalman C...030359/01
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. VX50344 Corporal N. A. Davidson, a member of the ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. VX50344 Corporal N. A. Davidson, a member of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group, another sufferer at the Bakli prisoner of war (POW) Camp as a ...030359/03
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. VX40002 Private C. G. O'Donnell, a member of the ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. VX40002 Private C. G. O'Donnell, a member of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group, standing alongside a fly-covered bag protecting the rice ratio...030356/04
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. VX66260 Private N. W. Benbow, a member of the 2/21st ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. VX66260 Private N. W. Benbow, a member of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group, in the Australian portion of the kitchen at the prisoner of war (...030356/03
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. VX24673 Private S. A. Merlo, a member of the 2/21st ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. VX24673 Private S. A. Merlo, a member of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group, who was captured on Ambon, in the Bakli prisoner of war (POW) Camp...030358/06
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Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. WX10861 Private J. Devenish, a member of the 2/21st ...
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Maker: Woods, Leonard Thomas
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. WX10861 Private J. Devenish, a member of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group, cooking sweet potatoes in a pot in the Australian section of the k...030356/05
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BATUMERAH, AMBON 1945-12-14. AN AUSTRALIAN SERVICEMAN SUPERVISES JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR ...
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BATUMERAH, AMBON 1945-12-14. AN AUSTRALIAN SERVICEMAN SUPERVISES JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR CLEARING SCRUB FROM AN AREA IN WHICH THE BODIES WERE FOUND OF FOURTEEN AUSTRALIAN MEN OF THE 2/21ST BATTALION...124406
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BATUMERAH, AMBON 1945-12-14. PART OF THE CLEARED AREA WHERE THE BODIES WERE FOUND OF FOURTEEN MEN ...
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BATUMERAH, AMBON 1945-12-14. PART OF THE CLEARED AREA WHERE THE BODIES WERE FOUND OF FOURTEEN MEN OF THE 2/21ST BATTALION, GULL FORCE, EXECUTED BY THE JAPANESE. IN THE DISTANCE TWO JAPANESE PRISONERS ...124404
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BATUMERAH, AMBON 1945-12-14. THIS TRACK PASSES AN AREA WHERE THE BODIES WERE FOUND OF FOURTEEN ...
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BATUMERAH, AMBON 1945-12-14. THIS TRACK PASSES AN AREA WHERE THE BODIES WERE FOUND OF FOURTEEN MEN OF THE 2/21ST BATTALION, GULL FORCE, EXECUTED BY THE JAPANESE. THE GRAVES WERE FOUND IN A CLEARED ARE...124405
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Beamsley, Harold William (Private, b.1912 – d.1997)
Private Record
Maker: Australian Military Forces Beamsley, Harold William
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX28646 Private Harold William Beamsley, 2/21 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia and Hainan Island, c 194...PR05146
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Bennett, Ron (Private, 2/21 Battalion, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Bennett, Ron
COPIES OF TWO LETTERS WRITTEN TO SGT BERNIE GAYNOR FROM DARWIN AND POSSIBLY AMBON IN 1941-1942PR83/164
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Biddiscombe, Frank Albert (2/21st Bn and POW Ambon and Hainan, b.1914)
Private Record
Maker: Biddiscombe, Frank Albert
1. Nominal Roll of Australian POWs at Hainan, 1942, and indications of the number who died. Notes on incarceration. 2. Diary covering period February 1941 - May 1945.3DRL/1763