Gallery
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North Wharf, Fremantle – American submarines Sept 1945
Fremantle was largest submarine base southern hemisphere
173 US, Dutch and British submarines docked during WW2
Photo courtesy of Fremantle Ports
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POWs recovered 1945 Maibara Camp, Osaka area.
WX9011 Gerry Arthur, Mt Lawley 3rd Row, 2nd from Right
WX9360 Edwin John Clarke, Walpole 2nd Row, 6th from Right
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‘Highland Brigade’ anchors Fremantle 1945 with returning POWs via Singapore.
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Harold Hockey’s family at Albany, hear news of 2/4th in Thailand by short wave radio.
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February 1947 – In Hero’s Memory
Wife of Lt. Col. Mick Anketell, CO 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion lays wreath at State War Memorial on 5th Anniversary of Fall of Singapore.
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Kanchanaburi Hospital Camp was established when railway line was completed. Men were brought back from Burma and north Thailand camps on stretchers off river barges or by railway suffering from dysentry, malnutrition, beri beri, pellagra. All had malaria. Man in foreground dabbing at tropical ulcer on his leg. Drawing by Gunner James Joseph French
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Sept 1991- Harold Cowie of 2/4th beside Sandakan First Memorial created by Ted O’Loughlin, local farmer & former POW
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8 April 1946 – 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion ex-Members Assoc. announced in West Australian Newspaper April 1946.
OFFICE BEARERS C.E. Green (President) A.J. Cough (Vice President) E. Feltham (Secretary) R. Lander (Treasurer)
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‘Pampanito’ crew were at first staggered to see fair/blonde and curly haired swimmers in the sea – initially they assumed the survivors would be Japanese. They had not known there were POWs being transported in the convoy they which they attacked several days earlier. This lone survivor was picked up by USS ‘Queenfish’ September 15th 1944
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Desperately ill ‘Rakuyo’ Maru survivor being held and carefully washed by crew of USS ‘Pampanito’ Sept 1944. About 7 survivors died within the first hours of being picked up from the seas.
It will be 75 years since this tragedy occurred & ‘Rakuyo’ Maru sank 12 September 1944.
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Rakuyo Maru survivor – USS ‘Pampanito’ supported while being washed of oil before entering submarine.Sep 1944
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Tea break before Darwin Oct 41 Standing L-R Fitzgerald, Minchin, Golden, Short, Vidler, ? , Jamieson, Cpl Lee, ?, ? , Ewen. Kneeling L-R Cpl Townsend, Gregory and RK O’Leary
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