Leonard Siffleet

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Sergeant Leonard Siffleet was a commando fighting with the Australian Army in New Guinea when he was captured by natives, who turned him over to the occupying Japanese army. Trained as a radio operator in the Special Forces, Siffleet was part of a secret surveillance detachment sent to New Guinea to watch the coast and report back on enemy activities.

After they were turned over to the Japanese, they were held for about two weeks, tortured, and then â€" on October 24, 1943, on the orders of Vice-Admiral Michiaki Kamada of the Imperial Japanese Navy â€" Siffleet was executed by beheading. He was beheaded by a Japanese officer, Yasuno Chikao. Chikao ordered another soldier to photograph him while he performed the execution. U.S. forces later recovered the photograph from the body of a Japanese major, in April 1944. Though the Japanese often executed prisoners by beheading, this is the only known surviving photograph documenting the beheading of a prisoner. -- http://listverse.com/

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Siffleet and fiancée Clarice Lane, 1941