Image:Awm044152.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Image
• File history
• File links
• Metadata

No higher resolution available.
Awm044152.jpg‎ (450 × 334 pixels, file size: 83 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Australian War Memorial www.awm.org.au Photograph 044152. Caption: Physical description: Black & white Summary: Kuching. Probably 1945. POW camp at Batu Lintang. Donated by Mr J Pepper.

Photograph almost certainly taken on 29 August 1945 as panel signals L, X and III can be seen on the roof of the long building parallel to the track on the left hand edge of the picture:

Wednesday August 29th [1945]. At 10.30 planes dropped pamphlets, obviously intended for us ... It transpires that the pamphlet is addressed to the Japanese area commander, and is written in English and Japanese. The main points are as follows:

1 The war is over

2 Japanese requested to establish contact with AIF by sending a deputation to meet a party of officers landing at the river mouth by Catalina. Time: 11am. Choice of dates: August 30th or September 1st or a later date.

3 Can Japanese get in touch with AIF by radio?

4 Will Japanese allow supplies to be dropped for POW?

5 Patrols will fly over and observe Japanese answers to above, to be given by following code signs:

L = Drop supplies

X = Cannot get in touch by radio

I = Will meet you on August 30th

II = Will meet you on the 1st September

III = Will meet you on a later date

In great haste the Japs laid down the L X III code signs.

We were disappointed to see III instead of I

6 The Japanese were told to extend the drome to 3000 metres.

At 3pm a couple of Beaufighters over to observe the code signs displayed. (Bell, Frank (1991): Undercover University, 115-6). Drops of supplies commenced the next day.

This image was created in Australia and is now classified as being in the public domain because its term of copyright has now expired. According to the Australian Copyright Council (ACC), ACC Information Sheet G23 (Duration of copyright) (Sep 2005), generally copyright has expired as follows: Type of material Copyright has expired if ...  A  Photographs or other works published anonymously, under a pseudonym or the creator is unknown: taken or published prior to 1955-01-01  B  Photographs (except A): taken prior to 1955-01-01  C  Artistic works (except A & B): the creator died before 1955-01-01  D  Published editions1 (except A & B): first published more than 25 years ago  E  Commonwealth or State government owned2 photographs: first published more than 50 years ago 1means the typographical arrangement and layout of a published work. eg. newsprint. 2owned means where a government is the copyright owner as well as would have owned copyright but reached some other agreement with the creator.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

• Search for duplicate files
• Edit this file using an external application

  See the setup instructions for more information.

File links

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.