Lot 5117

Description

WWII, Proclamation by General Sir Thomas Albert Blamey GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, ED, Commander-In-Chief Australian Military Forces, issued to the peoples of Timor, The Celebes, Manado, Borneo, The Residency of Ternate, Amboina, Ceram, The Kai Islands, Aroe Islands, Tanimbar Islands, The Lesser Sundas and Dutch New Guinea, signed first day of October 1945, divided into three sections, the first written in English, the second in Dutch and the last in the local language, the Australian coat-of-arms at the top and with the message in each of the languages that the Japanese have been defeated and that forces under General Blamey will be maintaining law and order until the lawful government of the Netherlands East Indies is operational. An original document with a few small holes and some small edge tears and foxing, otherwise fine and an historic document.