Our thanks to Dr Stephen Gapps, Curator of the Australian National Maritime Museum, for the following article published in the ANMM Blog.
In October 2015 the AIA helped organise a gathering of around 100 people in Casino, northern NSW, marking 70 years since the town was drawn into Indonesia’s struggle for independence, when Indonesian soldiers held at the Dutch army’s Camp Victory refused to serve the Dutch.
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Further reading
Jan Lingard, Refugees and Rebels: Indonesian exiles in wartime Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2008.