Foto’s van Kamp 14b

Bron: Australian War Memorial - foto's van Chick, Allan Clifford

Onomichi, japan, 1947. Private Allan Chick of the 65th battalion, Australian Imperial Force, during the occupation of Japan by allied forces. (donor: A. Chick).

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The remains of the Nagasaki University Hospital after the atomic blast. The photographer, then TX3350 Private Allan Clifford Chick, 2/40 Infantry Battalion, was in prisoner of war (POW) Camp 14b Nagasaki at the time of the blast.

The site of prisoner of war (POW) Camp 14b Nagasaki as it appeared in 1947. The photographer, then TX3350 Private Allan Clifford Chick, 2/40 Infantry Battalion, was a prisoner in Camp 14b

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The remains of prisoner of war (POW) Camp 14b, Nagasaki. The photographer, then TX3350 Private Allan Clifford Chick, 2/40 Infantry Battalion, was in Camp 14b at the time of the blast.

The road to Urakami Cathedral, Nagasaki, near the epicentre of the blast. Every thing within one kilometre of the epicentre was completely destroyed and burnt out. The photographer, then TX3350 Private Allan Clifford Chick, 2/40 Infantry Battalion, was in prisoner of war (POW) Camp 14b Nagasaki at the time of the blast.

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The remains of the Keiho Junior High School, Nagasaki, after the atomic blast. The photographer, then TX3350 Private Allan Clifford Chick, 2/40 Infantry Battalion, was in prisoner of war (POW) Camp 14b Nagasaki at the time of the blast.

Nagasaki, Japan, during the allied occupation, 1948. Private Allan Chick of the 65th battalion, Australian Imperial Force, with some of the war-time employees of one of the city’s foundries. private chick, a pow at camp 14b, Nagasaki, in 1945, survived the atomic bomb, and returned later in 1948, on escort duty with the commonwealth occupation forces. (Donor: A. Chick).

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The one-legged torii gate to the Shinto shrine at Sanno, Nagasaki. The gate was 800 metres from the epicentre and the blast destroyed one of the legs, leaving the rest of the gate standing. The photographer, then TX3350 Private Allan Clifford Chick, 2/40 Infantry Battalion, was in prisoner of war (POW) Camp 14b Nagasaki at the time of the blast.

Brighton, Tas. 1940. Portrait of TX3350 Private (Pte) Allan Clifford Chick, 2/40th Battalion. Pte Chick enlisted on 17 June 1940, embarked at Darwin for Timor on 7 December 1941, where he was captured and taken prisoner by the Japanese. He was a Prisoner of War (POW) in Java until May 1944. En route to Japan, the ship in which he was travelling was torpedoed and he was among 212 survivors. He was taken to Nagasaki and worked in the Mitsubishi foundry. He later served in the British Commonwealth Occupation Force and also with the United Nations forces in Korea until March 1953. He was repatriated to Australia and discharged in May 1953. (Donor A. Chick)

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Australië: Queensland, North Queensland, Cairns

Portrait of air and ground crew members of 43 Squadron, RAAF, with their Catalina flying boat, bearing nose art entitled ‘Some Chicken’. Identified from Left: 427317 Sergeant James Walter Goodwin of Southern Cross, WA; 425512 Leading Aircraftman Charles Wilburforce Hiffernan of Hunters Hill, NSW; 426624 Flying Officer (FO), Allan Bernard Liedl of Lismore, NSW; 405501 FO, Ian Douglas Vaughan Ralfe of Yeppoon, Qld (sitting in cockpit). The nose art shows a chick hatching from a bomb. Another 43 Squadron Catalina is visible, moored in the background.

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