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Croton and Chapman arrived at the designated meeting point after dawn on 22 November 1944. They found some evidence of the commandos having been there – the beginnings of a large lean-to shelter in a clearing at the top of a hill, away from the original base site; empty rations tins; half-cooked food
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On 21 November 1944 the submarine reached Merapas Island. Chapman and another commando, Corporal Croton, were worried about the surf and directed their landing folboat around the island to calmer waters, away from the set position at 0200. Chapman wanted to head back to the submarine but Croton drew
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deliver commandoes to enemy waters via submarine with 15 one-man, motorised submersible canoes known as "Sleeping Beauties" (SBs) (these could be used on the surface or travel semi-submerged, with the operator's head above the water or fully submerged similar to a small submarine, the operator using
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On 4 November eighteen of the group were together on Merapas Island. A small Japanese force landed on the island, and was attacked by the commandos. Two of the Rimau commandos – Riggs and Sergeant Colin Cameron – were killed in combat on the island, while the remainder now split into two groups and
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Australian forces intercepted a Japanese coded message reporting activity by about twenty commandos in the attack area. However, if the Australians had responded, it would have shown that the Allies had broken the Japanese secret codes. So the appointed rescue submarine was not told of the sudden
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Three of the groups headed to Merapas immediately. Lyon led his group into Singapore Harbour. It consisted of himself and a small force of six other men — Lieutenant Commander Donald "Davo" Davidson, Lieutenant Bobby Ross, Able Seaman Andrew "Happy" Huston, Corporal Clair Stewart, Corporal Archie
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Lyon knew the patrol boat would seek help from Japanese occupation authorities and decided to abort the mission. He scuttled the junk and the Sleeping Beauties (which were top secret weapons at the time) with explosive charges. He then ordered his men to divide into four groups and make their way
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Lyon, Ross and Stewart held off 80–90 opposing soldiers forcing them to fight for 9 hours and inflicting heavy casualties. Lyon and Ross had climbed trees for an elevated firing position, and remained unseen until muzzle flashes betrayed their positions and they were killed by grenades. Stewart
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On 7 November 1944 ten of the Rimau commandos were in place to meet the rescue submarine but it did not appear, as Mackenzie had instead chosen to hunt for enemy shipping in the area. He made this decision in consultation with Major Chapman, Z Special Unit's contact on the submarine.
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Shots were fired between the vessels – it was later deduced one of the Australian commandos aboard panicked and started firing at the approaching patrol boat. Some of the patrol boat crew were killed but at least one escaped and managed to get back to report the incident.
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will leave her patrol at dark on 7 November and proceed to the vicinity of Merapas Island.... In the event of the pick up party and the RIMAU party failing to keep the rendezvous for the embarkation, the greatest caution is to be exercised by
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arrived at Merapas on 4 October 1944. It appears Lyon decided to divide the party into two groups: 19 commandoes to take part in the raid, while four men would be left behind. These were meant to be Carey, Warren, Craft and Cameron or Pace.
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The Australians ambushed the Japanese and their native auxiliaries. A gun battle ensued. Davidson and Campbell were severely wounded. Lyon, Ross and Stewart stayed on Soreh to hold off the Japanese in order for the wounded duo to escape.
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A Japanese patrol caught up with them and arrived at the island at about 1400 hours and a gun battle ensued. The Australians withdrew to the western end of the northern beach, having selected two defensive positions in an unexposed area.
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After the success of the earlier Operation Jaywick mission in September 1943, Ivan Lyon started preparing for Operation Rimau. 'Rimau' is the Malay word for 'tiger' and Lyon had a large multi-coloured tiger head tattooed on his chest.
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Croton and Chapman returned to the submarine. Chapman and Mackenzie agreed that the operation had likely been a failure and that no purpose could be served in returning to Merapas, contrary to what had been planned.
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s main objective was offensive action against the Japanese and the orders to the Rimau party were that they might expect to be picked up at any time within a month of the initial rendezvous date.
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in Singapore. One commando, Marsh, died of malaria. During the imprisonment the men were tortured and provided starvation rations similar to those provided to other prisoners in the facility.
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is responsible for the safety of the submarine which is to be his first consideration and has discretion to cancel or postpone the operation at any time.... Subject to patrol requirements HMS
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On 14 October 1944 some commandos were reported as being on Pankgil Island (thought now to most likely be Page's group). Japanese soldiers were sent to the island but did not find them.
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Report on Attempted Pickup of ‘RIMAU’ Party by HMS ‘TANTALUS’, Appendix 1, Operation Order No. 44, Major WW Chapman 12/12/1944. File RIMAU Reports Copy 1, NAA Item Number A3269, E4/C.
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Once the 7 December 1944 final deadline passed, the survivors realised that they would not be rescued. They attempted to make their way home the 3,000-kilometre distance to Australia.
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It is probable that some of the folboat parties stopped on the headland of north-western Batam and left. Batam had been used during ‘Jaywick’ as a hiding place by Davidson in 1943.
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The wounded Davidson and Campbell made it by folboat to Tapai Island on 16 October 1944. Both men died there, either from their wounds or committing suicide by cyanide capsule.
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in March 1945. Pace died of starvation several months later in June 1945 in the same facility. Both were buried on a hill approximately 200 metres from the prison facility.
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None of the officials in Australia who knew that the Rimau commandos were in trouble tried to contact the submarine and order them to remain in the area for any survivors.
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on 23 September 1944. Although the island was believed to be uninhabited, a periscope reconnaissance the following day spotted three Malays beside a canoe on the beach.
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near Kasoe Island and Samboe Island. (The Japanese had increased surveillance of the area since Operation Jaywick.) It is unclear why the patrol boat approached the
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on 'Commando Cookers'; fires seemingly kicked out; a few pieces of silver foil; empty cigarette cartons. They did not question local people about what happened.
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using the "Sleeping Beauties", the party was to attach limpet mines to Japanese ships, sink thirty of them, damage another thirty, and escape to their base on
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came to an end. Later evidence stated it took guards more than half an hour to execute the men, sometimes requiring two or three blows to complete beheading.
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On 10 October 1944, two hours before sunset and an hour before the raid was to commence, disaster struck. A coastal Malay Police patrol boat, the
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if the submarine failed to make contact with them it would stay in the area, returning to the designated point every night until 8 December 1944.
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did unleash a punitive force of at least 100 soldiers led by Major Hajime Fujita including army, navy and native police to find the commandoes.
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arrived safely back in Fremantle on 11 October 1944. On 15 October 1944, Chapman, along with Corporal Ronald Croton, embarked in the submarine
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at a number of island locations or were captured and died of their wounds in Japanese captivity. A group of ten commandos were transported to
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in 1993 with the help of locals present on the island at the time of their death and transferred to Singapore for burial in August 1994. "
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Warne was able to evade Japanese patrols until March 1945 but was captured after a bout of delirium brought on by fever. He was taken to
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two canoes would travel north to the vicinity of Labon Island to secure a hide for the junk and for another canoe to proceed to Subar;
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which moved off on the evening of 24 September 1944 to capture a native boat. It followed Karimato Strait along the Borneo coast.
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Attestation of 7 Commissioned officers of 'Z' Special Unit that Hoehn folboats were used in Operation Rimau. NAA K1214-123/1/06.
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Over the next two nights, 29–30 September 1944, the Rimau commandoes, the SBs, folboats and other stores were transferred from
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Harbour, reaching the vicinity of the harbour on or around 6 October 1944. It was thought to have been off the west coast of
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to Merapas Island. The Rimau Commandos disguised themselves as Malays by wearing sarongs and dyeing their skin. The
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the officer was to spend the time observing targets and later rendezvous with the junk to participate in the attack;
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under the control of the Naval Police and interrogated so brutally he died of untreated wounds one month later.
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remained at large, but his folboat was taken and he was found days later on a subsequent sweep of the island.
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resumed its patrol and arrived back in Fremantle on 6 December 1944 having never returned to Merapas Island.
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They are believed to have sunk three ships with limpet mines, although evidence confirming this is limited.
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The mission consisted of 23 men with an additional two performing the duties of "conducting officers".
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On 15 October, five of the men (Lyon, Davidson, Ross, Stewart and Campbell) were on Soreah Island, or
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delivering mines by special one-man motorised submersible canoes (called ‘Sleeping Beauties’, or SBs);
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To ensure that their stores would remain undiscovered by the natives, one of the officers from the
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submerged with both vessels making their way back west towards a forward operational base at
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Success and failure in the port of Singapore—Z Special Unit and the Jaywick and Rimau raids
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Over two weeks nearly all the men were either captured, killed in firefights or drowned.
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Once completed on 1 October 1944 the second conducting officer, Major Walter Chapman and
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on ships. It was originally intended that motorised semi-submersible canoes, known as "
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which had taken place in September 1943, and was again led by Lieutenant Colonel
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The memorial to Operation Rimau outside the entrance to the Kranji War Memorial
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and was the intended forward point from which the attack was to be launched.
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Two heroes to be honoured over war raid on Japanese (From Herald Scotland)
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which they would use as a base and place enough supplies for three months;
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after darkness, the crew was to move the junk to an attack base at Labon
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In all, eleven members of the contingent were captured and brought to
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left Australia on 15 October 1944. The orders of the captain stated:
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Commemorative marker for the Mustika at Rockingham, Western Australia
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in Singapore after capture by the Japanese, were tried on charges of
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and was due to rendezvous with the Rimau party on 8 November 1944.
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Operation Rimau commemorative marker, Rockingham, Western Australia
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Two men, Willersdorf and Pace were captured on 17 January 1945 on
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return to a rendezvous with the submarine on 7/8 November 1944 at
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had no engine though so the commandoes were dependent on winds.
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Nineteen of the Rimau commandos, including Lyon, are buried at
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back to Merapas by use of the folboats that they had stored on
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Warrant Officer Jeffrey Willersdorf – Maintenance Technician.;
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The orders to the commander of the rescue submarine, HMS
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Commando Kayak: The Australian Folboat, Pacific Campaign
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Harbour undetected, disguising the commandos as locals;
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have the commandoes capture a small local fishing boat;
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Official Japanese records state that the ten men were
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Chapter in Rimau in Official History of World War Two
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Lance Corporal John Hardy – Infantry and Maintenance;
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Corporal Roland Fletcher – Infantry and Maintenance;
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