- Author
- Letter Writer
- Subjects
- Letter to the Editor
- Tags
- None noted.
- RAN Ships
- HMAS Barcoo
- Publication
- April 1993 edition of the Naval Historical Review (all rights reserved)
![Japanese Guard at Madagascar, 1946](https://navyhistory.au/wp-content/uploads/93_1_barcoo.jpg)
In reference to the article in the September 1992 Naval Historical Review “A Collision off Borneo, New Year’s Day off Borneo, 1946”, as far as I can recall there was no guard of R.N. POWs on the wharf at Macassar.
As the enclosed photo shows the Japanese formed a guard which was completely ignored by Brigadier Ivan Dougherty who walked straight past them and commandeered the cars in the background.
The Japanese had prepared a feast complete with cane chairs which were quickly souvenired by our crew (BARCOO) as soon as Dougherty disappeared. The British POWs are dressed in all white.
E.V. Barton,