POWs released from Ambon broadcasting messages home

Place Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Halmahera Island, Morotai Island
Accession Number ART90123
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 25.8 x 22.6 cm; image: 25.8 x 22.6 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and black ink, coloured wash on paper
Maker Rafty, Tony
Place made Netherlands East Indies: Halmahera Island, Morotai Island, Netherlands East Indies: Halmahera Island, Morotai Island
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

A recording is made of the grim ordeals of Ambon by a lieutenant of the 2/21st Battalion and an A.B.C. representative. Talbot Duckmanton interviews the released P.O.W.s on the 12th of September 1945 in Morotai.