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According to the caption under this image in the AMW galleries, the two people here are chinese-timorese creado Akiu who was speared under orders of Japanese for expressing a pro-Australian sentiment and a Lt. Bush. 

Copied from the AWM caption :-

MAUBISSE, PORTUGUESE TIMOR. 1946-01-22. AKIU WHO WAS A CREADO OR NATIVE ASSISTANT TO AUSTRALIANS OF SPARROW FORCE POINTING OUT TO LIEUTENANT BUSH, OFFICIAL WAR ARTIST, A HOUSE USED BY SERGEANT A. D. STEVENSON, 2/2ND INDEPENDENT COMPANY, TO OBSERVE THE JAPANESE OCCUPYING THE POSTO (FORT) IN THE FOREGROUND. (PHOTOGRAPHER SGT K. B. DAVIS)

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