 Meanwhile , a detachment of about 100 men from the battalion , who had been left behind in Australia when it deployed to Singapore , also took part in the fighting on Java . After a brief campaign , the majority of these personnel were taken into captivity when the Allied forces were overwhelmed around Buitenzorg in mid @-@ March 1942 , although some attempted to fight on as guerillas . Eventually these men were either killed or captured ; prisoners remained in Japanese captivity until the end of the war in August 1945 . During the three @-@ and @-@ a @-@ half years they were held by the Japanese , members of the 2 / 4th were sent to prison camps around the Pacific , where they were used as slave labour and subjected to harsh conditions and extreme brutality . After the war , the surviving members of the battalion were returned to Australia but the 2 / 4th was not re @-@ raised . 
 Meanwhile , a detachment of about 100 men from the battalion , <a href='null_relcl' title='1'><mark>who</mark></a><a href='been_done' title='2'><mark>had</mark></a> been left behind in Australia when it deployed to Singapore , also took part in the fighting on Java . After a brief campaign , the majority of these personnel <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>were</mark></a> taken into captivity when the Allied forces <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>were</mark></a> overwhelmed around Buitenzorg in mid @-@ March 1942 , although some attempted to fight on as guerillas . Eventually these men <a href='uninflect' title='5'><mark>were</mark></a> either killed or captured ; prisoners remained in Japanese captivity until the end of the war in August 1945 . During the three @-@ and @-@ a @-@ half years they <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>were</mark></a> held by the Japanese , members of the 2 / 4th <a href='uninflect' title='7'><mark>were</mark></a> sent to prison camps around the Pacific , where they <a href='uninflect' title='8'><mark>were</mark></a> used as slave labour and subjected to harsh conditions and extreme brutality . After the war , the surviving members of the battalion <a href='uninflect' title='9'><mark>were</mark></a> returned to Australia but the 2 / 4th <a href='negative_concord' title='10'><mark>was</mark></a> <a href='negative_concord' title='11'><mark>not</mark></a>re @-@ raised . 
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