Australia's Front Line - The Territory at War Reverend Len Kentish
Minister Stone meets with the Elaine and Claire, daughters of the Rev Len Kentish a Methodist missionary and civilian coastwatcher who was a passenger on the stores carrier HMAS Patricia Cam as it travelled from Millingimbi towards Cape Wessel NT. The ship was bombed on 22 January 1943 by a Japanese floatplane. It strafed the survivors and dropped another bomb into their midst killing more. The aircraft landed in the water and took Kentish on board. The survivors were rescued a week later but the fate of Kentish was unknown. In 1946, it was discovered that his Japanese captors had beheaded Kentish at Dobo in the Aru Islands Indonesia 5 February 1943. Australia's Front Line - The Territory at War was a schools curriculum pack which featured the Rev Len Kentish.
- Document type: Photo
- Time period: Legislative Assembly NT
- People: Rev Len KENTISH, Elaine KENTISH, Claire KENTISH
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