Gull ForceThe members of the Australian battalion of Gull Force endured some of the harshest prisoner of war conditions of any Australian during the Second World War. In February 1942, on the remote island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1131 Australian soldiers were preparing for invasion by Japanese forces. Outnumbered and ill equipped, theirs was an impossible mission. After their defeat, over 200 Australians were massacred. The survivors faced three and a half years