Major Donald John Stott, DSO & Bar was a New Zealand soldier and military intelligence agent during the Second World War.
Stott aboard a ship in the Mediterranean during his time with SOE in Greece
The USS Perch, from which Stott launched his final mission
Z Special Unit was a joint Allied special forces unit formed during the Second World War to operate behind Japanese lines in South East Asia. Predominantly Australian, Z Special Unit was a specialist reconnaissance and sabotage unit that included British, Dutch, New Zealand, Timorese and Indonesian members, predominantly operating on Borneo and the islands of the former Dutch East Indies.
Crew of the MV Krait during Operation Jaywick, 1943
Four of the crew members of Motor Launch (ML) 1321 and NX73110 Sapper (Spr) Edgar Thomas 'Mick' Dennis, Z Special Unit, the only survivor of the ill-fated raid on Muschu Island (off the coast of New Guinea), at Brisbane dockyard. May 1945
HMAS Tiger Snake in April 1945
Commemorative plaque to the Z Special Unit at Rockingham, WA