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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
 

 

 


Stanley Alexander Ashby
9th Infantry Battalion
Enlisted Brisbane, July 1916 aged 21.  Served Ypres region 1917.  Badly wounded Sept 1917. Repatriated March 1918.

with acknowledgements to Erice Pizer
(nee Ashby)

See  Aftermath 2002 link

Robert Leeuwin Clark
Richmond  NSW
1916
Flying Corps

with acknowledgements to
John Leeuwin Clark

( See the poem:    Namanula Hill
from  Anne McCosker's
Witch Doctor )

 

Arthur Reginald Parry
1st A.I.F. Medical Corps
X-ray Operator and Senior Orderly,
2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station,  London

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

 

 

Corporal Frank Norman Smith
of the
Australian Light Horse

with acknowledgements to
Rae Crichton (nee  Smith)

(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. 

See also Montevideo Maru, extracts from Masked Eden

 

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

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