Operation Binatang

[1] An agent of Z Special Unit was to be landed on the north coast of Java to recruit more men who would give active assistance to the allied cause.

[2] Buxton was born in Semarang to an English father and Javanese mother and escaped to Australia from Japanese occupied Java in 1943 aboard a lugger.

HMS Telemachus[3] arrived at the location but owing to bad weather after 3 days Lt Cdr W D A King RN abandoned the landing and proceeded with the patrol before returning to Fremantle via Darwin where Buxton was disembarked on 30 March 1945.On 12 May 1945 Buxton left Fremantle aboard USS Blueback[4] (Lt Cdr M K Clementson USN).

He made contact with Lt Col van der Post and the newly arrived allies in Batavia and was then returned to Australia via Singapore.

After the war Buxton left the army and joined the RAAF but because he could not prove his British nationality he was ordered to leave Australia.