 While the majority of the battalion was fighting on Singapore , a small detachment of 106 men were sent to Java . The majority of these were the 94 men that had failed to return in time from their unofficial leave in Fremantle . After missing their ship , they had been arrested by the military police and were confined to quarters in <unk> Camp for two weeks . On 30 January they were released and under the command of two officers and a small group of NCOs , they embarked upon <unk> , which set out for Singapore via <unk> in Batavia , escorted by Canberra . 
