File:HMAS Barcoo QF 4 inch Mk XVI single mount breech AWM 119466.jpg

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AWM caption : "MACASSAR, CELEBES ISLANDS 1945-09-24. OCCUPATION OF MACASSAR BY THE 2/27TH BATTALION. WHEN THE CITY WAS OCCUPIED BY AUSTRALIAN TROOPS, MANY ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR AND CIVILIAN INTERNEES WERE FREED. MOST OF THE PRISONERS OF WAR WERE ROYAL NAVY SEAMEN FROM HMS EXETER, HMS ENCOUNTER AND HMS STRONGHOLD, SHIPS WHICH ALONG WITH HMAS PERTH HAD BEEN SUNK DURING THE BATTLE OF THE SUNDA STRAIT. THE EX PRISONERS OF WAR WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE SUBMARINE DEPOT SHIP HMS MAIDSTONE BY HMAS BARCOO AND HMAS INVERELL. SERGEANT W. CARTWRIGHT, ROYAL MARINES OF HMS EXETER, AND CHIEF ORDNANCE ARTIFICER OF HMAS BARCOO EXAMINE THE BREECH OF THE CORVETTES FORWARD 4" GUN".

Comment : this shows a 4-inch Mk XVI gun on single Mk XX mounting, found only on several Australian ships.

Date

24 September 1945

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119466

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Sergeant F Butt

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