PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP
13 August 2010 Commonwealth and United States Defence personnel visited Ambon war cemetery in Indonesia during a recent break in Pacific Partnership 2010 activities. The cemetery, built on the site of a former camp for British, Dutch and Australian prisoners of war, has over 2000 graves with more than half of those being Australian. |
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| 20100802adf0000000_001 Able Seaman Imagery Specialist Andrew Dakin pays homage to war photographer and cameraman, Damian Parer, where he is buried alongside over 1000 other Australians in the Ambon war cemetery, Indonesia. (Date taken: 02 August 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20100802ran8106603_021 Soldiers from 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment pay respects at the Ambon war cemetery, Indonesia during Pacific Partnership 2010. (Date taken: 02 August 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20100802ran8106603_024 Private Samuel Silvester (foreground) and Sapper Jarred Donlan from 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment stop to read a tombstone during a visit in Ambon war cemetery, Indonesia whilst taking a break from Pacific Partnership 2010. (Date taken: 02 August 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20100802ran8106603_040 Sapper Anthony Chaytor from 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment pauses to read a tombstone at the Ambon war cemetery whilst taking a break from Pacific Partnership 2010. (Date taken: 02 August 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20100802ran8106603_054 United States Army Captain Brigette Brown pauses to salute a tombstone alongside Australian Army Captain Darryl Buchanan, whilst conducting a visit to the Ambon war cemetery during Pacific Partnership 2010. (Date taken: 02 August 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20100802ran8106603_098 Sapper Joshua Knox from 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment pays respects while his 'rising sun' badge sits over a soldiers tombstone at Ambon war cemetery, Indonesia during Pacific Partnership 2010. (Date taken: 02 August 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20100802ran8106603_108 Sapper Joshua Knox from 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment pays his respects to 3 Sappers at Ambon war cemetery, Indonesia. The three Sappers were killed in action and lay at rest side-by-side. Sappers T Harrison, G Blackman and L Brown were killed in action, on the same day as Sapper Knox's birthday. (Date taken: 02 August 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20100802ran8106603_139 Australian war Photographer Damien Parer, rests in peace in Ambon war cemetery, Indonesia. Parer was killed by Japanese gunfire while filming a United States Marine advance in Peleliu, on the island of Palau on 17 September, 1944. (Date taken: 02 August 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20100802ran8106603_152 Able Seaman Imagery Specialist Andrew Dakin pays homage to war photographer and cameraman, Damian Parer, where he is buried alongside over 1000 other Australians in the Ambon war cemetery, Indonesia. (Date taken: 02 August 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20100802ran8106603_165 Lieutenant Commander Kerry Climo of the Royal New Zealand Navy, Corporal Shannon Robertson of the Canadian Armed Forces and Private Samuel Silvester of Australia's 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment walk up and down the many rows of Commonwealth sailors, soldiers and airmen interred at the Ambon war cemetery, Indonesia during Pacific Partnership 2010. (Date taken: 02 August 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20100802ran8106603_218 Royal Australian Navy Nursing Officer, Lieutenant Tracey Cannard reads the tombstone of a Royal Navy Sailor who was killed in action and buried in the Ambon war cemetery, Indonesia. (Date taken: 02 August 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20100802ran8106603_243 Australian Defence Force personnel and partner nations visit the Ambon war cemetery during Pacific Partnership 2010. (Date taken: 02 August 2010) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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