After WWII, many Asian-born servicemen and their families were ordered to leave the country they had fought for – leaving a trauma that persists to this day
‘This racial diversity has become a lost history,’ says Dr Ernest Koh, who is researching the little-known stories of Asian men and their families who were deported from Australia post-WWII.‘This racial diversity has become a lost history,’ says Dr Ernest Koh, who is researching the little-known stories of Asian men and their families who were deported from Australia post-WWII.was behind thousands of deportations, many of them illegal, which took place at the end of the second world war.
“I was trying to find out what happened to these Chinese sailors from Liverpool who were deported to Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong,” Koh says. Seaman Tony Ang Kai Ming, who carried more than two hundred European women and child refugees to Australia from Penang after the Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1941, went on to serve in the Australian Army before being recruited by the US army as a foreman for its Civil Construction Corps based in Brisbane.Tony Ang Kai Ming in his Australian Army uniform. He was recruited by the Australian Army into one of its employment and works companies.
Mavis Ada Anderson was a 17-year-old Sydney waitress when she met Abdul Samad Amjah, who had arrived in Fremantle on the SS Klang after the siege of Singapore a year earlier.He joined the Royal Australian Navy and the couple met in Sydney in 1943, where Amjah was recovering from severe injuries after his ship was attacked by Japanese bombers.Mavis Anderson’s certificate for registration of an alien. She was stripped of her Australian citizenship after her marriage to Abdul Samad Amjah.
When US Navy seaman Ahmad bin Osman was ordered to leave Sydney in 1947, his Australian wife, Phyllis Frater, left for Singapore with him. But the government would not allow her to bring her three children from a previous marriage with an Australian man, who had played no role in their upbringing.Australian Navy seaman Jacob Abdullah and his Torres Strait Islander wife, Mercia, were deported with their four Australian-born children in 1948.
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