Gallery

• FIRST DAY SINGAPORE WAR TRIALS 1946
• Prime Minister, 1941-1944 (until tide turned against Japan) General Hideki Tojo led Japan into Pacific War, approving the attack on Pearl Harbour. General HIDEKI TOJO convicted by International Military Tribunal for Far East at Tokyo Trials, sentenced to death & hanged on December 23, 1948.  
• SINGAPORE. 1945-09-13. PRISONERS OF WAR RELEASED FROM CHANGI PRISON CAMP WERE EVACUATED FROM SINGAPORE BY THE AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL SHIP MANUNDA, THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN SHIP TO ARRIVE AT SINGAPORE AFTER THE SURRENDER OF THE JAPANESE. SHOWN, A GENERAL VIEW OF AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY WORKERS SERVING TEA TO THE EX-PRISONERS OF WAR WHILE THEY WAIT FOR ORDERS TO EMBARK ABOARD THE MANUNDA.
• Changi Gaol with former POWs 1945
• MEMBERS OF THE KENPEITAI also known as KEMPEITAI  (JAPANESE SECRET POLICE) & HIKARI KIKAN (JAPANESE MILITARY POLICE) AT  BANGKOK ROYAL TURF CLUB RACECOURSE WAITING FOR TRANSPORT TO THE PRISONER OF WAR (POW) CAMPS
• Dutch New Guinea. Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) captured during the attack on Hollandia show jungle boots to United States Military Policeman George Ivill of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN, DEC 1945 – A YOUNG CHINESE GIRL POINTING OUT A JAPANESE AT AN IDENTIFICATION PARADE OF SUSPECTED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS HELD AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE CHINESE CIVILIAN CAMP.
• Former BTR Guards awaiting trial, Thailand
• ‘Mad Mongrel’ a Korean guard in Thailand Camps, on Railway, much hated by POWs – was sentenced to hang at War Trials
• Punishment Hole for POWs used at Camps, the Burma end of Burma-Thai Railway
• The medals of Bill Attenborough who perished at Ranau having marched from Sandakan in 1945 were stolen from  Bill’s mother in 1970s have been found and generously returned to the family, Bernadette Cowley in Melbourne March 2021.