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Featured articleTom Eastick is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
Main Page trophyThis article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on December 16, 2022.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
December 9, 2021Good article nomineeListed
February 28, 2022WikiProject A-class reviewApproved
March 31, 2022Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 21, 2021.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Tom Eastick was the first Australian artillery officer to use survey procedures to accurately engage targets without ranging?
Current status: Featured article

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'Eastick was responsible for: accepting the surrender of the Japanese in his zone and interning them; releasing and evacuating around 2,017 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and internees, including 400 stretcher cases and 237 women and children; and establishing military control in the zone. This included liberating and repatriating Allied POWs held in the large Batu Lintang camp.'

This needs rephrasing as the numbers quoted were all from Batu Lintang camp. I would go with something like

'Eastick was responsible for: accepting the surrender of the Japanese in his zone and interning them; liberating and evacuating around 2,017 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and internees held in the large Batu Lintang camp, including 400 stretcher cases and 237 women and children; and establishing military control in the zone.' He was involved in evacuating the POWs and internees to the RAPWI camp in Labuan, but no further in their repatriation.

Fantastic article, and great to see Brig. Eastick on the front page. Congratualtions to all involved. 81.154.185.83 (talk) 14:58, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Will check the sources. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:24, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]