KUCHING, SARAWAK. 1945-09-11. AFTER THE SURRENDER CEREMONY AT KUCHING, BRIGADIER T. C. EASTICK, ...

Place Asia: Borneo, Sarawak, Kuching
Accession Number 116934
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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KUCHING, SARAWAK. 1945-09-11. AFTER THE SURRENDER CEREMONY AT KUCHING, BRIGADIER T. C. EASTICK, COMMANDING KUCHING FORCE, 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION, ACCOMPANIED BY LIEUTENANT COLONEL A. W. WALSH, COMMANDING OFFICER 2/10TH FIELD REGIMENT, 8TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION (A PRISONER OF WAR) AND COLONEL T. SUGA, COMMANDANT OF ALL PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS IN BORNEO, VISITED THE PRISONER OF WAR AND INTERNEE CAMP OF KUCHING, WHERE A PARADE WAS HELD AT WHICH THE PRISONERS OF WAR WERE INFORMED OF THEIR LIBERATION. SHOWN, SOME OF THE CIVILIAN PRISONERS OF WAR LISTENING TO BRIG EASTWICK ADDRESS THE PARADE.