BATUMERAH, AMBON. 1945-12-12. JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR DIGGING FOR POSSIBLE GRAVE SITES UNDER ...

Place Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Ambon, Pulau, Ambon, Batumerah
Accession Number 124369
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Stewart, Ronald Leslie
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

BATUMERAH, AMBON. 1945-12-12. JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR DIGGING FOR POSSIBLE GRAVE SITES UNDER DIRECTION OF WAR GRAVES REPRESENTATIVES. THE GRAVES OF SEVERAL RAAF AIRMEN EXECUTED WERE FOUND AFTER AN EXTENSIVE SEARCH. THE JAPANESE WAR CRIMINAL MASAKIYO IKEUCHI HAD PREVIOUSLY STATED THAT THIS SPOT WAS ONLY A NATIVE GARDEN.