robert hart Posted December 20, 2021 (edited) 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) Edited December 20, 2021 by robert hart Link to comment
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