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This caricature was produced in the Bulletin Newspaper, Sydney, November 1942. It was in reference to the Japanese demand for the members of the unit to surrender and gives a very polite answer to the Japanese soldier. In reality the answer was not so polite. Artist Edward Scarfe (Ted) Scorfield -
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Hi Kylie What are the abbreviations you need help with??? Cheers Peter
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Yara River, New Britain. Group portrait of members of a patrol from the 2/2nd Commando Squadron, AIF, on activities in Henry Reid Bay area while the squadron was based at Lamarien. Identified, left to right, front row: VX59618 LCpl W Wellings; WX11951 LCpl J Wicks; WX12136 Tpr G H Strickland; WX9540 Tpr G Rowley. WX10893 Lieutenant R K Palmer; Rear, left to right: NX50133 LCpl F O'Neill; NX44893 Cpl H R Cullen; WX12642 Tpr R Wilkerson; -
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Front L to R David Thomas Ritchie WX8465, Eric James Herd NX52731, Henry John Sproxton WX11950. Rear L to R ??? Curtis, Roydon Septimus Wilson WX13370 -
Information on B G Dorsett & D B Campbell
Peter Epps replied to Hugh Campbell's topic in Men of the 2/2
Hi Hugh Sorry I missed your post, the computer usually notifies me of posts but not this time. There are a few books available regards the 2/2 but I don't know about the 2/8. The Double Reds of Timor by Archie Campbell Published 1995 also available as a digital book on the Double Reds website https://doublereds.org.au/ under the store button at the RH top Timor 1942 by Christopher Wray published 1987 All the Bull's Men by Cyril Ayris published 2006 A History of the 2nd Independent Company and 2/2 Commando Squadron by C D Doig published 196 reprinted 2009 also available as a digital book on the Double Reds website https://doublereds.org.au/ under the store button at the RH top Cheers Peter -
Sorry Jacqueline, I have just seen your post, the computer usually notifies me of any replies but not this time. We would love any photos you have especially if they name any of the men in them. We would like a copy of your dads photo to add to his bio page, as the one we have is the mug shot from his service papers. Cheers Peter
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Peter Epps commented on Edward Willis's gallery image in East Timor
No 2 Section, "A" Platoon. WX12841 Colin Criddle, WX12840 Fred Smith, KIA, Timor 20 Feb 1942, WX13042 Cyril Doyle, KIA new Guinea, 29 Sept 1943. -
Crossing the RAMU River, Near Faita New Guinea on 7 January 1944 after an eight day patrol to Jappa.. Known to be in Canoe VX60789 Les Anderson, WX12281 Tom Towers, WX35333 Len Bagley, NX106310 Jim Hallinan, Back to Camera, NX49475 John Keenahan, ?? Monk, VX47342 Kev Curran, VX38890 Dave Dexter, WX37231 Tom Giles. -
Crossing the RAMU River, Near Faita New Guinea on 7 January 1944 after an eight day patrol to Jappa.. Known to be in canoe VX60789 Les Anderson, WX12281 Tom Towers, WX35333 Len Bagley, NX106310 Jim Hallinan, Back to Camera, NX49475 John Keenahan, ?? Monk, VX47342 Kev Curran, VX38890 Dave Dexter, WX37231 Tom Giles. -
What a Joke. Never knew the RAAF had such super HIGH STANDARDS. They rejected Jerry Haire as not being fit enough. Thank God they did, as the unit would have lost the service of a very capable Commando and the Australian Army, a very capable Officer. Jerry was Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette, 25 May 1943 for his Gallant and Distinguished service on Timor. Plus Jerry was 5 foot 11 inches (185cm) so may have been too tall for a pilot seat. -
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Note from the Japanese Army, Dil,i demanding that No 2 Independent Company Surrender. I cannot repeat what was supposedly said about surrendering, as the unit knew what happened to their mates, captured on the ration truck. -
Self explanatory note, most were used as toilet paper.
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This telegram, dated 30 Dec 1942, was sent by No 6 Section members to WX10744 Cpl Jeremiah Thomas Haire on their safe arrival back in Darwin. Jerry had left Timor in November 1942 to attend an Officer Training School. -
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This is a copy of a sheet that WX13624 Pte Mervyn Peter Ryan, was given when leaving Timor, as a POW after recovering from wounds received during the heroic defence of the Dili Airstrip. Merv was wounded and refused to be carried from the strip, as he realised it could cost more casualties to do so. He spent the rest of the war as a POW returning home after hostilities ceased. -
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WX13305 William Donald Hudson, NX39586 Robert Sydney Larney, New Britain 1945 -
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Peter Epps commented on Louis Crossing's gallery image in New Britain
WX13636 Anthony Gordon Bowers was one of the tallest men of the unit, New Britain 1945. -
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Peter Epps commented on Louis Crossing's gallery image in New Britain
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Peter Epps commented on Chantal Besancon's gallery image in New Britain
WX12138 Albert James Martin, WX12281 Thomas Francis Daniels Towers,VX42759 David Mailer Brown, NX44855 Joseph Roy Barrett, VX57492 Edward Hodgson, Front WX12136 George Henry Strickland, VX87983 Thomas Edward Eric Davies, VX60758 Alfred Bernard Grachan. -
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Peter Epps commented on Louis Crossing's gallery image in New Britain
Believed to be VX88274 William John Connell, taken in Wide Bay, New Britain next to abandoned Japanese bunkers, 1945