District Officer W. R. Bell, Cadet K. C. Lillie, and 13 native policemen, were massacred by natives at Malaita, Solomon Islands. The uprising caused HMAS ADELAIDE to be dispatched to the island on the RAN’s last punitive expedition.
Australian Naval History on 4 October 1927
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