Northern Territory Government Photographer Slide Collection,
PictureNT,
PictureNT,
Date
1985-05,
Location
Melville Island,
Description
Murrupuritiyanuwu, Aboriginal school girls at the ceremony to unveil the plaque to commemorate Matthias Ulungura. Plaque reads: "This memorial was erected by the Northern Territory Government in recognition of Matthias Ulungura 1921-1980 Who, unarmed, on 19th Feb. 1942 on Melville Island captured the first Japanese prisoner of war (a zero pilot) to be taken on Australian soil.",
Matthias Ulungura and the capture of Toyoshima Haijame / Paul A Rosenzweig. Sabretache : the journal of the Military Collectors Society of Australia. v.28 no.2, 1987: 10-14.,