Marist missionaries who evaded the Japanese on Bougainville for fourteen months gather around the grave of two missionaries who were executed by the Japanese

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands, Bougainville
Accession Number 304582
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
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

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Description

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)