EMERY POINT, DARWIN, NT. 1946-02-27. JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR COMPOUND DOING THEIR COMPULSORY ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Northern Territory, Darwin
Accession Number 125935
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Davis, Keith Benjamin
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

EMERY POINT, DARWIN, NT. 1946-02-27. JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR COMPOUND DOING THEIR COMPULSORY DAILY EXERCISES BEHIND THE WIRE OF THEIR COMPOUND. JAPANESE CAPTAIN ABE, TO THE LEFT OF THE MAIN GROUP, TAKES THE SQUAD THROUGH THE ROUTINE. AN AUSTRALIAN GUARD FROM THE 12/40TH BATTALION SURVEYS THE PRISONERS FROM HIS LOOKOUT TOWER IN THE FOREGROUND.