sentence: the battalion spent christmas 1941 in brisbane , but before new year 's day , it was again on the high seas , aboard the dutch freighter bloemfontein , bound for the island of java in the dutch east indies , via darwin , australia , escorted part of the way by the cruiser , and escorted from darwin by , flagship of rear-admiral glassford , the light cruiser and the destroyers , , , and .