Informal group portrait of members of the Semut II team at Long Akar, Borneo. This team undertook ...

Place Asia: Borneo
Accession Number P00560.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Borneo
Date made May 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal group portrait of members of the Semut II team at Long Akar, Borneo. This team undertook missions behind Japanese lines. Identified left to right: WX36796 Lance Sergeant (later reverts to corporal) Abu Kassim Bin Marah; WX36793 Sergeant (Sgt) Teh Soen Hin; VB325894 Captain (later Major, Semut III) William Lomas Philip Sochon, British Army; Sgt T. Barrie; QX48608 Major Gordon Senior "Toby" Carter; NX164342 Sgt Charles Walter Pare; TX16283 Sgt Kelvin Walter Hallam; believed to be Dan Illerich USAAF; SX3396 Warrant Officer II Donald Leslie Horsnell.