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DIED AT AMBON
[ tagged as 8th Division POW's Ambon ILLUSTRATED ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 24 September 1945, page 13
Article ILLUSTRATED 63 wordsPte. P. J. O'Donoghue, 2/21 Batt, 8th Division, who died while a prisoner of ... -
AMBONESE FAREWELL AUSTRALIANS
AMBON, Monday.
[ tagged as Ambon ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Tuesday 22 January 1946, page 2
Article 102 wordsBreaking through a cordon of military police, natives gave a rousing farewell to Australian troops who left on Saturday. ... -
VICTORIANS RECOVERED ON AMBON
[ tagged as Ambon Army Casualties Lists POW's Recovered ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Saturday 15 September 1945, page 3
Detailed lists, results, guides 479 words -
BESTIAL SADISM BY JAP GUARDS ON AMBON ALLEGED
AMBON, Thursday.
[ tagged as Ambon Japanese War Crimes POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Friday 4 January 1946, page 2
Article 172 wordsA systematic policy of bestial sadism was pursued by the Japanese guards at Tankoei camp, at Ambon. said Captain J. Williams, of ... -
JAP CRIMINALS SMILE IN COURT
AMBON, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Ambon Japanese War Crimes POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Thursday 10 January 1946, page 1
Article 105 wordsAccused of being identified as responsible for the beating of Australian prisoners of war at Ambon, Japs smiled broadly before the War Crimes ... -
DIED AT AMBON
[ tagged as 2-21st Battalion Ambon POW ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Tuesday 18 September 1945, page 3
Article 60 wordsVX50592 Pte,P. G. (Peter) Sheppard, 2/21st Battalion, only son of Mr and Mrs N. E. Sheppard, of Melbourne, died on July 18 at Ambon ... -
LETTERS MEN MISSING FROM AMBON
[ tagged as 2-21st Battalion Ambon POW ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 8 October 1945, page 8
Article 135 wordsSir: Being the father of one of the boys of the 2/21st missing from Ambon, I was anxiously looking forward to Mr Forde's promised ... -
INDONESIA CLOSES AREA ROUND AMBON
DARWIN, Thursday.
[ tagged as Ambon ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Friday 24 November 1950, page 1
Article 133 wordsAn area of 360 miles by 100 miles around Ambon has been declared a prohibited area until further notice. One side of the area is only 60 miles from Dutch New Guinea. ... -
AMBON WAS RAIDED BY RAAF BOMBERS
[ tagged as Ambon RAAF Bombers ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Tuesday 26 May 1942, page 3
Article 94 wordsRAAF bombers carried out the successful raid on Saturday on Amboina, 550 miles north of Darwin. This is revealed in an Air ... -
MXSNESIAN REPLY TO AMBON CLAIM
[ tagged as Ambon ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Tuesday 20 May 1952, page 1
Article 236 wordsThe Empassy of Indonesia regarded with amusement Mr. Lokollo's statements in Sydney, the Information pincer of the ... -
OCCUPATION OF BORNEO AND AMBON
British to Reploce Australians BATAVIA
[ tagged as Ambon Borneo ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Tuesday 4 December 1945, page 1
Article 102 wordsBritish forces from southern IndoChina are expected to take over from the Australians occupying Borneo, Ambon, and Timor before February. ... -
BOMBERS AND SHIP DESTROYED
Jap Losses at Rabaul and Ambon
[ tagged as Ambon ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Friday 15 May 1942, page 1
Article 482 wordsTaking the Japanese by surprise, a force of Allied planes swept in over Rabaul airfield on Wednesday and plastered a ... -
PURSUIT OF DEFEATED JAPANESE
Mopping Up In New Guinea
[ tagged as Ambon ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Wednesday 23 February 1944, page 16
Article 226 wordsAustralian troops, south-west of where they joined with the Americans near Saidor, are mopping up remnants of the defeated Japanese. ... -
SERVICE CASUALTIES
[ tagged as 2-2 Pioneers Ambon Army Casualties Lists POW POW in Germany ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Saturday 18 July 1942, page 3
Article ILLUSTRATED 232 wordsSgt Arnold Westgarth, a well-known musician in Warrnambool, is missing. He was last heard of in Java. Before enlisting in 1941 he was bandmaster of the ... -
LISTS OF MISSING NEARING COMPLETION
[ tagged as Ambon Java Malaya New Britain POW Singapore Timor ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Wednesday 26 August 1942, page 2
Article 180 wordsCANBERRA, Tues: Lists ot names of members of the AIF missing as a result of the campaigns in Malaya, Singapore, Ambon, Java, Timor, and ... -
SERVICE QUERIES WHO SHOULD GET THAT 1939-43 STAR?
[ tagged as Ambon Darwin Koepang Namlea RAAF Pearl Harbour ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Friday 22 September 1944, page 11
Article 557 wordsIt does seem a pity that the Government cannot, even now, offer some real balm to the many service men who consider that they have ... -
LAST POW's LEAVE HAINAN IS.
56 Australians In Party HAINAN IS
[ tagged as Ambon Army Casualties Lists Hainan Island Hospital Ship Gerusalemme POW's Recovered ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Friday 21 September 1945, page 1
Article 463 wordsThe evacuation of Allied prisoners of war from Hainan Island was completed yesterday morning, when 139 ... -
JAPS IN TIMOR TO SURRENDER TO AUSTRALIANS
(From Our Special Representative, Noel Adams)
[ tagged as Ambon HMAS Moresby Japanese Surrender Koepang Harbour ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Friday 7 September 1945, page 1
Article 258 wordsThe Japanese in Dutch Timor will surrender to an Australian force under Brigadier Lewis Dyke, and it is expected the ... -
FORGOTTEN 8TH DIVISION
[ tagged as 2-21st Battalion Ambon Forgotten 8th Division ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Thursday 5 October 1944, page 6
Article 326 wordsSir: It will be gratifying to relatives of men of the 8th Division to see in your columns reference to a fine body of Second AIF. which ... -
Died While POW
[ tagged as 13th AGH 1945 2nd 21st Battalion Ambon Army Casualties Lists beri beri BURGE J J CLARKE W J A CRAWFORD Gerald footrunner HAWKSWORTH Stanley R ILLUSTRATED Ivanhoe lacrosse POW POW Ambon POW's Amboina prisoner of war QUIGLEY Signaller Gordon C ROBILLIARD H J St Kilda The Argus Melbourne Timboon Victorian Railways WADDINGTON Edmund ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 1 October 1945, page 5
Article ILLUSTRATED 365 wordsH. J. Robilliard, who died of illness on Ambon in ... -
7 JAP SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED
3 Hit in Heavy Raid on Ambon
[ tagged as Ambon Japanese Ships Sunk ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 8 February 1943, page 3
Article 371 wordsSOME WHERE IN AUST, Sun: Maintaining their attacks on enemy shipping, Allied aircraft have destroyed or damaged 7 vessels in the ... -
LESSONS OF PAPUAN CAMPAIGN
Tribute to Australian Soldiers
[ tagged as Ambon RAAF Casualties Lists Tribute Aussie Soldiers ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Saturday 1 May 1943, page 3
Article ILLUSTRATED 525 wordsAdmiration for the Australian soldier, based on grim fighting in the Papuan campaign, was expressed by Mr Mervyn Weston, ... -
HIGH JAP OFFICER CHARGED WITH NEGLECT
MOROTAI, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Ambon Captain Katsuram Komura Major General Endo RAAF POW's ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Thursday 31 January 1946, page 1
Article 155 wordsMajor-General Endo, the highest ranking Jap officer to be brought before the war crimes court, was charged with failing to ensure ... -
JAP. GIVES REASON FOR EXECUTIONS
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Thursday.
[ tagged as Ambon Japanese War Crimes Lieut Kunito Hatakeyama Rabaul War Crimes Court ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Friday 4 August 1950, page 1
Article 117 wordsA Japanese war criminal gave evidence before the War Crimes Court to-day in defence of six fellow Japanese on trial for a ... -
Search For Air Ambulance Is Continuing
[ tagged as Ambon Darwin RAAF Casualties Lists RAAF Dakota Missing 26 on Board VH-CIZ ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 31 December 1945, page 3
Article 188 wordsThe search for the RAAF Dakota air ambulance which has been missing between Ambon, in the Celebes, and Darwin since December 19 is ... -
War Crimes Court Imposes Sentence On Three Japs
LOS NEGROS, Friday.
[ tagged as Ambon Captain Kaneki Kagiyama Captain Seizo Hara Japanese War Crimes Yoshimatsu Kuratani Yoshiyasu Koga ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Saturday 2 September 1950, page 1
Article 130 wordsThe War Crimes Court to-day acquitted one Japanese of murdering Australian and Allied prisoners of war at Ambon in 1943, ... -
JAPS PAY PENALTIES FOR WAR CRIMES
RABAUL, Sunday.
[ tagged as Ambon Japanese Executed for War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Kiyomune Kawahara Lieut Kose Ueda Rabaul War Crimes Court Sub Lieut Merio Kakimuna ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Monday 13 May 1946, page 1
Article 52 wordsLieut.- Kiyomune Kawahara, sub-Lieut. Kose Ueda and sub-Lieut. Merio Kakimuna, who had been found guilty by a court martial of the ... -
AMBOINA COST 407 LIVES
[ tagged as Amboina Ambon Ambon Bay Laha ]
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Thursday 4 October 1945, page 3
Article 141 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Of the original Australian garrison of 1,092 men on the island of Amboina, N.E.I., 305 have been ... -
AIR WAR FLARE-UP OVER NEW GUINEA
4 Jap Ships Hit, 14 Planes Destroyed From GEOFFREY HUTTON, "Argus" War Correspondent
[ tagged as Air Raids on Jap Ships and Airfields Ambon Darwin Milne Bay New Guinea Rabaul Sanananda ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Saturday 23 January 1943, page 1
Article 373 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Friday: Allied aircraft in a series of raids yesterday badly damaged 4 enemy ships at Rabaul and Ambon, and in 3 air combats 14 enemy fighters were shot down, one probably ... -
MEN OF LAHA PRESUMED TO BE DEAD
Many Executed
[ tagged as Ambon Laha Mass Executions Mass Graves POW's ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Friday 7 December 1945, page 3
Article 270 wordsSpecial inquiry officers of occupation forces on Amboina had investigated the case of the 150 men who had surrendered in the Laha area ... -
JAP RAIDS ON PAPUA FAIL
Allied Planes Again Active
[ tagged as Air Raids on Jap Ships and Airfields Ambon Ballale Airfield Buin Buna Milne Bay Mubo Waipali village ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Tuesday 23 February 1943, page 12
Article 425 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA Mon: While our planes struck at Amboina, the Solomons, and New Guinea yesterday, enemy aircraft ... -
Witnesses Needed For War Crimes In Tokyo
[ tagged as Ambon Banda Islands Borneo Burma-Thailand Railway Changi POW Camp Japanese War Crimes Outram Road Gaol POW's ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Saturday 24 August 1946, page 19
Article 127 wordsMr Justice Mansfield, chief Australian prosecutor at the trials of Jap war criminals in Tokyo, who recently returned to Australia, has ... -
Long jungle search for airmen made
[ tagged as Ambon Celebes Java Manado RAAF Casualties Lists Search For Missing Airmen Squadron Leader K M Rundle ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Thursday 31 July 1947, page 24
Article 186 wordsA remarkable 2-year job of "super-sleuthing" in New Guinea jungles for possible survivors of crashed warplanes ... -
36 JAPANESE GUILTY
Guards At Ambon
[ tagged as 123 Aussies-16 other POW's Tantoei Camp Ambon Ambon War Crimes Trial Icheuchi Japanese War Crimes Tantoei Camp ]
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Friday 15 February 1946, page 3
Article 154 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.— Thirty-six Japanese were found guilty and 57 were acquitted of charges of having ill-treated ... -
AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER DIES ON HOSPITAL SHIP
HONG KONG
[ tagged as Ambon Army Casualties Lists Buried With Full Military Honours Death Hainan Island Hospital Ship Gerusalemme POW Striker ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Saturday 6 October 1945, page 5
Article 220 wordsAn Australian soldier, Pte James W. Adams, of Albert Park (V), died on Monday aboard the hospital ship Gerusalemme, which turned back ... -
SEARCH FOR MEN MISSING IN PACIFIC GOES ON
[ tagged as Ambon Borneo Hainan Island Japan Java POW's Rabaul ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Thursday 15 November 1945, page 2
Article 171 wordsHopes have not been abandoned that some men who were prisoners of the Japanese, and who have not yet been traced, might still be alive. ... -
Accused Japanese Alleges Torture In Mass Murder Case
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Thursday.
[ tagged as Ambon Japanese War Crimes Junjiro Takano Kazuto Suwa Laha airfield Mass Beheadings POW Sadao Hayashi Seichi Murayama Shigei Kamoika Shigeyoshi Miyawaki Shimkichi Shimohama Yamashita ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Friday 28 July 1950, page 4
Article 695 wordsAn accused Japanese told the War Crimes Court today that an Australian officer had tortured him into swearing that he had beheaded five Australians in a mass slaughter of prisoners of war. ... -
FIVE JAPS GUILTY: MURDERS AS "SADISTIC SPORT"
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as 50 Australian POW's Executed Soeakodo Airman Beheaded New Guinea Ambon Ambon Island Jap's Murder RAAF Flight-Lieut-Kokas Japanese War Crimes Kokas Kuichiro Shimizu Old automobile spring Sadao Hayashi Seichi Murayama Shigei Kamioka Shimkichi Shimohama Soeakodo Suzuki Agata Yamashita Yutaka Suzuki Yuzaburo Agata ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Tuesday 8 August 1950, page 4
Article ILLUSTRATED 746 wordsOf six former Japanese marines charged with the murder of about 50 Australian prisoners of war on Ambon Island on February 5, 1942, five were found guilty by the War Crimes Court to-day. ... -
JAP WAR CRIMINALS HANGED
[ tagged as Ambon Burma-Siam Railway Changi Gaol Japanese Executed for War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Maros Maru NEI Palembang ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Thursday 5 December 1946, page 20
Article 65 wordsTen more Japanese war criminals, five of whom were found guilty of atrocities committed during the building of the Burma-Siam ... -
JAPANESE SADISTS ACCUSED
[ tagged as Ambon Captain Hosijima Japanese War Crimes Labuan Sandakan to Ranau Death March Tantoei Camp War Crimes Court ]
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Thursday 10 January 1946, page 2
Article 182 wordsAMBON, Wed.—Japs on trial before the War Crimes Court today were identified as being present at the ... -
THREE JAPS GUILITY OF TWO MURDERS
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Ambon Benteng army prison Captain Kaneki Kagiyama Japanese War Crimes Japs Behead one AIF major and 2 RAAF men Ambon Kiyomi Sakemi Takao Sasaki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Tuesday 10 October 1950, page 3
Article 156 wordsThree Japanese were to-day found guilty by the War Crimes Court of having murdered two R.A.A.F. flight sergeants at ... -
JAP MURDER OF R.A.A.F. SERGEANTS IS ALEGED
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Thursday.
[ tagged as Ambon Australian Airman with broken leg Beheaded Ambon Benteng Army Prison Captain Kaneki Kagiyama Japanese War Crimes Japs Murder 2 dutch and 1 Australian POW's Ambon Kiyomi Sakemi RAAF Sugi Maru Takao Sasaki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Friday 29 September 1950, page 4
Article 295 wordsJapanese on Ambon Island had beheaded a R.A.A.F. flight sergeant who was suffering a severe leg wound, the War Crimes Court was told to-day, as three more Japanese war criminal suspects faced ... -
The Chengs Went Shopping:: Victory Loan Knitter
[ tagged as 11 POW's Beheaded Ambon Ambon Changi POW Camp Emperor Hirohito General MacArthur ILLUSTRATED POW Stoker J F O'Donoghue ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Saturday 29 September 1945, page 17
Article ILLUSTRATED 297 wordsRESULTS OF THEIR SHOPPING TOUR in Melbourne yesterday afternoon are inspected back at their hotel by Mr Ye Tung Cheng, new Chinese Minister to Australia; Mrs Cheng, and four of their six children, Lucy, Daisy, Willie, and Bobby. They are spending a few days in the city before going to Canberra. STITCHES BEING CAST by Leila Bennett, 11, of Merton ... -
MORE ARMY AWARDS FOR PACIFIC WAR
Services in Malaya, Islands, And P O W Camps
[ tagged as Ambon Army Honours Colonel James Hervey Thyer George de Verdon Westley John Finch Akeroyd Malaya Margaret Joan Spencer OBE POW Awards Rabaul Timor ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Friday 7 March 1947, page 15
Article ILLUSTRATED 2842 wordsFurther awards and decorations conferred on members of the Australian Military Forces for distinguished service in the war against Japan were aunounced yesterday. In addition to acknowledgment of ... -
MANY P O W's WILL BE HOME IN FIVE WEEKS
Australian Mission Arranging Return RANGOON
[ tagged as Ambon Australian Internees Evacuation of POW's Kuching Leaflet Drop Manunda Oranje Hospital Ship POW's Jesselton Sandakan ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Monday 3 September 1945, page 16
Article 698 wordsLatest figures obtained by the Australian Mission at SE Asia headquarters show the distribution of Australian POW's in the SE Asia ... -
DEEDS OF A.I.F.
Minister Pays Tribute
[ tagged as Ambon Gull Force William John Rendell Scott 1888-1956 World War 2 ]
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Monday 16 February 1942, page 1
Article 174 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.— Magnificent g[?]antry of the A.I.F. on Am[?]o [?] in bitterly contesting every step of the way ... -
CRIMES TRIALS ON AMBOINA.
Vicious Beatings Of Allied P.O.W. From Our Special Representatives MELBOURNE, Jan. 2.
[ tagged as Ambon Hainen Island Japanese War Crimes POW's Amboina Tantoei camp ]
The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954) Thursday 3 January 1946, page 1
Article 240 wordsA terrible story of vicious heatings of prisoners of war on Amboina was told yesterday. when the trial of Japanese. ... -
AMBON POW DIES
[ tagged as 2-21st Battalion Ambon Army Casualties POW ]
Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946) Wednesday 26 September 1945, page 2
Article 37 wordsMELBOURNE. — Sergeant Geoffrey T. Hastie, 2/21st Battalion, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert T. Hastie, of Rubens, Grove, Canterbury, died of illness on July ... -
NO TRACE OF MISSING RAAF PLANE
[ tagged as Ambon Banda Sea F/Lt N Z Hazle LAC L H Wilson Morotai to Darwin P/O F Robinson P/O G R Connell Pte W J Geoghegan RAAF Dakota Transport crash 1945 Reginald (Rex) Green Sergt F Bodley Sgt W Mullen ]
Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878 - 1954) Monday 31 December 1945, page 4
Article 324 wordsCANBERRA, December 30.—Liberators and Catalinas of the RAAF are searching dozens of small is lands between Ambon and Darwin ... -
SEARCH FOR TOWNSVILLE BASED DAKOTA AIRCRAFT
[ tagged as Ambon Banda Sea F/Lt N Z Hazle LAC L H Wilson Morotai to Darwin P/O F Robinson P/O G R Connell Pte W J Geoghegan RAAF Dakota Transport crash 1945 Reginald (Rex) Zebulun Green Sergt F Bodley Sgt W Mullen ]
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1885 - 1954) Monday 31 December 1945, page 1
Article 300 wordsBRISBANE, December 30.—Liberators and Catalines of the R.A.A.F. are searching dozens of small islands between Ambon and Darwin from tree-top level for a missing R.A.A.F. Dakota transport plane with 21 ...