World War I veterans of
Rabaul & surrounding islands
(Bismarck Archipelago: Mandated Territory of New Guinea)
who were abandoned by their own Australian government at the outset of the war against Japan, January 1942.
Links:
Far Eastern Prisoners of
War Association
Children of Far Eastern
Prisoners of War Association
return to
Empire and Commonwealth
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with acknowledgements to Erice Pizer See Aftermath 2002 link |
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Robert Leeuwin Clark with acknowledgements to ( See the poem:
Namanula Hill
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Arthur Reginald Parry Parry was Senior Medical Assistant, Kokopo Native Hospital, at Fall of Rabaul 1942. He chose to remain with his patients rather than try to escape. with acknowledgements to Colwyn Parry, formerly Senior Supt., New Guinea Police See Aftermath, 1958 link
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| Corporal Frank Norman Smith with acknowledgements to (See: Commonwealth War Graves Commission ) Note: the Commission places
Smith's birth in England, but George Farrow has discovered that he was born
near Bega, NSW. |
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We would be pleased to publish photographs of other World War I veterans resident in the Mandated Territory, who disappeared following the Fall of Rabaul.
Please e-mail Anne McCosker