EAGLE AND LAMB
The story of the only Australian captured by Japanese forces in Australia. During his imprisonment at the Japanese floatplane base at Dobo in the Aru Islands, Leonard Kentish suffered torture and starvation before being executed without trial on February 5th – A World War Two drama.
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Leonard Kentish, a civilian coastwatcher and missionary aged 35, stationed on isolated Goulburn Island just off the Arnhem Land coast, was the only Australian captured by Japanese forces in Australia during World War Two.
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Meet the Characters
The Story
War Memoir
Based on a time when Australia was under threat of invasion.
Biography
Follows the lives of Len (1907-1943) and Violet (1902- 2002), from their courtship and marriage to their posting into an area that became a warzone.
War History
Based on real events in North Australia during the early 1940s, including two civilian evacuations Len Kentish facilitated and the final tragic voyage of HMAS Patricia Cam. (http://www.pastmasters.net/hmas-patricia-cam.html)