| Accession Number | P09506.003 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Colour - Toned black & white print |
| Maker |
Unknown |
| Place made | At sea |
| Date made | c 1919 |
| Conflict |
Period 1910-1919 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Shipboard scene aboard the SS City of Poona carrying Australian troops home in 1919. In the ...
Description
Shipboard scene aboard the SS City of Poona carrying Australian troops home in 1919. In the foreground is Captain Albert Edward Jackson MC, 53rd Battalion, his wife Edith and their young son Leonard William Jackson. Leonard Jackson enlisted in the Second World War and died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 16 April 1945 at Sandakan, Borneo. In 1934 Captain Jackson, representing local returned soldiers, helped in the ceremonial planting of the Lone Pine tree at the Australian War Memorial alongside Prince Henry, the Duke of Gloucester. Nearly seventy years later, a memorial to the men who died at Sandakan was unveiled within its shadow.