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AWA radio telephone service
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
On 4 February 1946, AWA (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia) a Radio Telephone Service between Rabaul and Sydney, NSW. A person wishing to call the mainland books a time with the operator who contacts t...F07422
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Citation parade by Major General Eather
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
At 1100 hours 14 February 1946, the Pacific Islands Regiment (PIR) paraded at Vunacanau airstrip to honour five of their men who received decorations from NX3 Major General Kenneth William Eather CBE ...F07423
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Commemoration service Rabaul
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
During May 1942, 800 Allied prisoners of war and internees embarked on the vessel Montevideo Maru at Rabaul for shipment to Japan; she was subsequently sunk en route. On 23 January 1946, four years af...F07419
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European internees Rabual
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Maker: Wood, Frederick Sydney
This camp was located some 25 miles inside Japanese territory and contained mainly mission personnel including 12 Australian Catholic nuns, the rest being German, American, Dutch and Austrian. The vis...F07303
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Funeral of Brigadier Sutherland
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
Brigadier R B Sutherland was killed on 28 September, 1943, when a B25 Mitchell bomber in which he was travelling as a passenger, crashed prior to becoming airborne. The Soputa Cemetery was opened at t...F07085
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Rabaul Cemetery, Japanese build compound to hold war criminals
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Maker: Thain, Ernest Robertson
During the Japanese occupation of Rabaul, the European cemetery was used as a dump. Scenes show extensive damage and desecration of graves by Japanese troops. Japanese prisoners are seen constructing ...F07355