NX47542 - SMALL, Mervyn Lindsay (Jimmy), Pte. - C Company, 15 Platoon

This frame is taken from a film in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, ID: F07341, "Arrival of evacuated POW from Sumatra at Singapore".

It shows Pte. Jimmy Small, who was a POW at Palembang, on a Dakota aircraft which was used to ferry recovered POWs and internees back to Singapore in September 1945.

He was a member of 15 Platoon, C Company of the 2/30 Battalion. After the fighting at Gemas, he escaped from Singapore and made his way to Sumatra. He was taken prisoner and became a POW in Palembang, Sumatra.

Pte. Small was recovered from the Japanese at Sumatra on 5/9/1945, was transported to Singapore, and embarked per Karoa on 29/10/1945 for return to Australia.

He disembarked in Sydney on 20/11/1945.

See also: http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/F07341/