Place | Oceania: Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands, Bougainville |
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Accession Number | 304582 |
Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | |
Maker |
US Office Of War Information |
Place made | Pacific Islands: Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal |
Date made | May-June 1943 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Marist missionaries who evaded the Japanese on Bougainville for fourteen months gather around the grave of two missionaries who were executed by the Japanese
Ruavatu Mission Station, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Marist missionaries who evaded the Japanese on Bougainville for fourteen months gather around the grave of two missionaries who were executed by the Japanese, Father Arthur Duhamel of the United States and Father Henk Oude-Engerbrink (aka Henry Engerbrink) of the Netherlands. [Sisters M. Sylvia (Fanny Lossois) SMSM and M. Odilia (Anne-Marie Iltis) SMSM are also buried here]. In the foreground is a foxhole used for refuge during air raids. Left to right: Chaplain J J O'Neill, United States Chaplain on Guadalcanal; Brother Julius; Father Henry Herbert; Father Richard O'Sullivan; Father Albert Lebel; Father James McConville; Brother Henry; Bishop Jean-Marie Aubin, Vicar Apostolic of the Southern Solomon Islands; Bishop Thomas J Wade, Vicar Apostolic of the Northern Solomon Islands; Father Henry Fluet; and Brother Paul. (Naval Historical Collection)