| Accession Number | P04017.064 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
| Maker |
Unknown |
| Place made | Japan: Shikoku |
| Date made | 13 June 1943 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Group portrait of prisoners of war (POWs) from Zentsuji Camp, Shikoku, Osaka, Japan. Named on the ...
Description
Group portrait of prisoners of war (POWs) from Zentsuji Camp, Shikoku, Osaka, Japan. Named on the verso, but positions unknown are: VX44781 Lieutenant (Lt) George Alfred Charles Milne, 2/22nd Battalion (2/22nd Bn); NGX458 Lt James Clarene Archer, New Guinea Volunteer Rifles (NGVR); QX64899 Lt Douglas Richard Haas, Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps (RAAOC); QX64896 Lt Roy Thomas Hoffman, Royal Australian Army Service Corps (RAASC); Lt Alfred Clark, Anti-Tank, Australian Army (RAA);
VX44908 Captain (Capt) Frank Eric Shier, 2/22nd Bn; VX15946 Lt James Hugh Bowring, 2/22nd Bn; VX24728 Lt James Robert Badham, 2/22nd Bn; Lt John A Harper, Royal Navy, HMAS Perth; Sub Lt Thomas Fellows Robbins, RAN Volunteer Reserve (RANVR), HMAS Perth; VX50082 Lt George William Peter Dixon, 2/1st Independent Company (2/1st Ind Coy); Lt William Lindsay Gay, RAN, HMAS Perth; unidentified; Lieutenant Commander (Lt Cdr) Philipp Oliver Laelius Owen, RAN, HMAS Perth; TX16307 Lieutenant Colonel John Joseph Scanlan, New Guinea Area Headquarters (NGAH); VX39159 Lt Jack Lusby Burns, 2/1st Ind Coy; NGX456 Major (Maj) Norman Bennington Watch, Royal Australian Medical Corps (RAMC), NGVR; QX64895 Capt Henry Alfred John Tozer, Royal Australian Pay Corps (RAPC); VX44912 Lt Harold Surrey Erwin, 2/22nd Bn; VX46451 Lt Gordon John Bussell, 2/22nd Bn; VX51161 Lt Arthur William Page, 2/1st Ind Coy; QX64900 Lt Noel Joseph Lyons, NGAHQ; Capt S G Nottage, Coastal Artillery (Arty), Australian Army;
VX48548 Lt Eric Richard Meade Almond, 2/22nd Bn; VX44911 Lt William Gordon Grant, 2/22nd Bn; and Capt E J 'Sandy' Robertson, RAAMC.
Front row: NGX457 Lt Claude Geoffrey Kilner, NGVR; VX55482 Lt Clive Walter Marshall, 2/22nd Bn; VX45195 Lt Henry Esmonde Willoughby Dowse, 2/22nd Bn; Lt Samuel Edward Lees Stening, Surgeon, RANVR (later awarded DSC); VX45210 Maj Gwynne Matheson, Anti-Tank RAA; VX43617 Maj Leslie Hunter Lannan, 2/22 Bn; TX6041 Maj James Rowland Purcell Clark, 2/22 Bn; VX44505 Lt Edward Wallace Best, 2/22nd Bn; VX46461 Lt Gordon Henri Braden, 2/22nd Bn; VX45855 Capt John Thornbury McCallum, 2/22nd Bn; TX6004 Chaplain John Lovett May, 2/22 Bn; NX70289 Capt David Chadwick Hutchinson-Smith, Anti-Tank, RAA; and Q90832 (QX64897) Lt Cyril Claude Victor Nielsen, RAAOC.
Most of the men in the camp were Allied officers captured in the early battles of 1942. The camp was a 'show camp' used by the Japanese for propaganda purposes, but after 1942 conditions worsened. The prisoners were captured in New Britain, Sunda Straits, Java Sea, South West Pacific and the China Sea.