Gallery

• 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)
• ‘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
• 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.
• Rakuyo Maru survivor – USS ‘Pampanito’ supported while being washed of oil before entering submarine.Sep 1944
• 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
• Meal stop before Darwin Oct 41
• Lunch near Darwin Oct 41 photo by Maj. Saggers
• Major Saggers, termite nest near Darwin. OC Camp and RTO in snap  
• Morning tea Tennant Crk courtesy CWA – Capt Bunning in foreground. Oct 41
• Private Ronald Keith Moran WX15386 tuned 21 years old 3 days before he died at Sandakan 28 June 1945 -the youngest of 70 men from 2/4th MGB sent to Sandakan to construct aerodrome for Japanese Military.  There were no survivors from Sandakan – 6 men successfully escaped with assistance of locals who bravely risked their lives, that of their families and their villages. Ron Moran was one of 288 sick  POWs who were moved from their huts when 2nd March left Sandakan-Ranau 28 May 1945 – and placed on the ground in the wired section of the compound while the Japanese burnt their huts (POW’s homes for past 3 years) to the ground.  Some had groundsheets, some did not and lay on the dirt dressed in a few rags.
• Corporal Charles Henry Dunn WX8092 d. Sandakan 21 Mar 1945 aged 44 years.  He was the oldest of 70 men from 2/4th who perished Sandakan.  He was married with two daughters.
• War Graves Party Sandakan October 1945