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Abel, Gordon Rueben (Gunner, b.1923 - d.2007)
Manuscript
Maker: Abel, Gordon
Manuscript titled `Me We Us and Co: Rueben Gordon's War' describes experiences with L Special (or Heavy) Battery manning the fortress at Praed Point, New Britain. Mentions feelings about being sent as...MSS1623
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About our stay in the prison in Rabaul (during the war)
Manuscript
Maker: Gorfine, Phyllis Tiriman, Misiel
8 page manuscript. Contains photocopy of original Kuanua text and two page translation. Translated into English by Phyllis Gorfine, original text by Misiel Tiriman. Summarises the Second World War exp...MSS1968
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Aerial Reconnaissance Camera Control Box (Japan)
Technology
Japanese 2 x aerial camera control boxes. They are in fair condition although the metal shows signs of pitting and powerdering and the paint is peeling. They each measure 6" X 5" X 5". Relic shipped ...RELAWM24740
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Australian Military Forces, Rabaul
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts three Australian Military Force personnel in jungle wearing tin helmets and carrying rifles.ART28376.006
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Australians at fruit market, Rabaul
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
Australians at fruit market, Tahili, Rabaul, site of market close to several infantry battalions.ART26179
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Baby Nambu Pistol Holster : Japanese Military Forces
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Baby Nambu Pistol Holster. Brown leather with a top flap having a single securing strap that fits over a brass stud on the body. The reverse has a single belt loop and a D ring on either side for a sh...RELAWM29861.002
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Bates, Albert (Warrant Officer, b.1905 - d.2003)
Private Record
Maker: Bates, Albert
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 14697 Warrant Officer Albert Bates DFM, No. 11 Squadron (RAAF), New Guinea, New Caledonia, and Australia, 1942. Collection consists of one typed...PR03185
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Bell, Hubert Henry (NX203171, Sergeant, 2/9th Commando Squadron, b. 1925)
Manuscript
Maker: Bell, H. H. (Harry)
Hubert Henry Bell's memoirs, "Wee Waa to Weewak, Recollections 1925-1946", in two volumes. Volume one is divided into two parts. In the first, Bell describes his family history and childhood. The seco...MSS1994
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Bensley, Robert Sidney (Civilian)
Private Record
Maker: Bensley, Robert Sidney
Collection relating to the air raid in Rabaul and civilian Robert Sidney Bensley's experiences of the air raid and events afterwards. Collection consists of two typed pages written by Bensley entitled...PR82/026
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Benson, James, (Reverend Father, b.1887 - d.1957)
Manuscript
Maker: Benson, James
Collection relating to Second World War experience of Reverend Father James Benson, Gona, Papua, 1942-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 - Wallet consists of a bound typescript manuscript, published as 'Prisoner's ...MSS0768
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Bomb dumps, RAAF
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
This is a rough sketch of a bomb dump in Port Moresby during the Second World War.ART31016
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Bomber Crash, Rabaul
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
This is a semi-abstract composition combining exterior and interior views of a crashed aircraft in flames. This is a representation of a crash of a Lockheed Hudson on take-off for aerial reconnaissanc...ART28377.001
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Bomber Crash, Rabaul
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
This is a representation of crash of a Lockheed Hudson on take-off for aerial reconnaissance.ART28377.002
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Bridgman, Max
Manuscript
Maker: Bridgman, Max
MANUSCRIPT TITLED `RABAUL' DESCRIBES EXPERIENCES AS A SIGNALS OPERATOR WITH ADVANCED OPERATIONAL BASE (RABAUL) FROM JULY 1941 TO JANUARY 1942. DISCUSSES LIFE AND DUTIES PRIOR TO WAR WITH JAPAN, JAPANE...MSS1429
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Brown, Peter Handley (Captain, Aaoc AMF, POW)
Private Record
Maker: Brown, Peter Handley
CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORT CONCERNING NEWS OF THE END OF HOSTILITIES, DINNER MENU PRESENTED BY THE JAPANESE AND A COPY OF A PERSONAL ACCOUNT DOCUMENTING LIFE AS A POW FROM THE TIME OF CAPTURE AT RABAUL...PR87/011
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Brown, Tom A (Trooper)
Private Record
Maker: Brown, Tom A
Three page letter written on Japanese paper by Trooper Tom A Brown to a friend, 'Tiger' (Arthur Ablett), describing service with the 2/4 Armoured Regiment in Rabaul during the Second World War; copy o...PR01863
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Caboose
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
This drawing features four different skethes, three of Papuan men, and a fourth of a dog.ART29299
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Callaghan, Eileen Mary (Sister)
Private Record
Maker: Callaghan, Eileen Mary
Collection relating to the service of Staff Nurse Eileen Mary Callaghan (NFX180289). The collection contains a recipe book compiled by Sister Callaghan and 14 letters and telegrams relating to Callagh...PR00668
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Camouflage inspection at No 1 Advanced Operational Base (AOB) airstrip at Vunakanau, Rabaul, looking south east
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Camouflage inspection at No 1 Advanced Operational Base (AOB), Vunakanau, Rabaul, New Guinea, looking south east. This drawing is from a series of eighteen pencil and watercolour sketches of military ...ART91572
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Captain Stewart Nottage
Art
Maker: De Vries, J
Depicts a portrait of SX11407 Captain Stewart Gordon Nottage, Rabual Heavy Battalion. Captain Nottage was one of six officers transported to Japan aboard the Naruto Maru. The group was initially billl...ART29467
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Carrick, Alan Rea (Captain, b.1914)
Private Record
Maker: Carrick, Alan Rea
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX71121 Captain Alan Rea Carrick. Collection consists of one diary, dated 1943, with diary extract insert, dated 1945, relating to Carrick's time...PR86/196
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Clift, Leslie George, Staff Sergeant
Private Record
Maker: Clift, Leslie George
Papers collected by Clift relating to the Japanese occupation of Rabaul. Include 4 1943 issues of "Guinea Gold", the official programme of the 11 Australian Division Joputa Racing Club, October 1943. ...PR91/121
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Coin, 2-1/2 Gulden, Silver, Netherlands, Queen Wilhelmina I, 1937
Heraldry
Maker: Various
REL30802.011.001
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Coin, Penny, Bronze, Great Britain, Queen Victoria, 1887
Heraldry
Maker: Royal Australian Mint Royal Mint
REL30802.002.001
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Crocker, Willis (Lance Sergeant, 2/22nd Bn, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Crocker, Willis
DIARY, WRITTEN ON A DAILY BASIS, RECOUNTING THE RETREAT FROM RABAUL BY FOOT, ESCAPE FROM NEW BRITAIN IN THE PINNACE "BLACK MARIA" AND EVENTUAL RETURN TO PORT MORESBY BY RAAF CATALINA. THE ACCOUNT WAS ...PR83/093
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Dore, Ashley Vance (Sergeant, b.1918 - d.1986)
Private Record
Maker: Dore, Ashley Vance
Memoir of Sergeant A V Dore (VX42841) while serving with 2/22 Battalion in New Britain. Titled 'Escape from Rabaul', it covers the period from January to April 1942. 8 pages.PR01835
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Double Barrel Type 90 Signal Pistol : Imperial Japanese Navy
Technology
Maker: Kokura Arsenal
Double Barrel Type 90 Signal Pistol. Hinged frame with a release catch under the barrels and a large ring cocking hammer. The frame stamped P A T over No 93006 over 101355. The breech top is stamped w...RELAWM29880
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Dudley Frederick Field as a major, 2/22nd Battalion, interviewed by Hank Nelson for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australian in the War of 1939-1945
Sound
Maker: Field, Dudley Frederick Nelson, Hank
2/22nd Battalion on Rabaul, evading invading Japanese, early schooling, family background, Tol Plantation massacre, evacuation to Australia, transfer to Army training duties, transfer back to army, pr...S01044
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Enid Edmeades Ratcliff as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1940-1946, interviewed by Jan Bassett
Sound
Maker: Ratcliff, Enid Edmeades Bassett, Jan
Early life; nursing training; joining the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in 1940, sent to Gaza in Palestine with the 2/2nd Australian General Hospital; conditions in Gaza; ailments of patients...S01806
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Faceplate from diver's helmet
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Brass face plate for a diver's helmet with removable eye piece and separate adjustable air inlet valve. The bottom of the eyepiece is held in place with two wing nuts, with a further wing nut at the c...REL41330
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Fisher, Peter Wallace (Captain b.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Fisher, Peter Wallace
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX145642 Captain Peter Wallace Fisher, who served as Second in Command, Anti-Aircraft and Anti-Military Landing Craft Section (AA/AAMLC) in Raba...PR89/040
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Flying Fortress
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
A Boeing B17 Flying Fortress is depicted getting refueled at 7 Mile Drome, New Guinea, in preparation for an air raid on Rabaul. A dummy gun is pictured to the right.ART29960
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Gairns, Leonard William (Flight Lieutenant, 7, 25 and 32 Squadron RAAF b.1914)
Private Record
Maker: Gairns, Leonard William
DETAILED ENLISTMENT, DISCHARGE AND RECONSTRUCTION TRAINING SCHEME PAPERS, COPY OF FLYING LOGBOOKS, AIR NAVIGATION TRAINING NOTES AND COPY OF SPEECH RELATING HIS RAAF EXPERIENCES WITH RECONNAISSANCE DU...PR88/038
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Ghiggioli family
Private Record
Maker: Ghiggioli, Edward Arthur Ghiggioli, Ernest Keith Ghiggioli, Thomas Francis
Collection relating to the Second World War service of three brothers from the Ghiggioli family: NX36559 Lance Corporal Ernest Keith Ghiggioli, VX125638 Private Thomas Francis Ghiggioli, and VX109089 ...PR04738
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Glen Alvie Remembers
Manuscript
Maker: Glen Alvie Recreation Reserve Committee
'Glen Alvie Remembers', a manuscript based on research into 28 former students of Glen Alvie State School who served in the First World War and 31 men and 3 women who enlisted form Glen Alvie for Worl...MSS2004
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Government Stores, Rabaul
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts two government buildings holding supplies, Rabaul, New Guinea. In front of the buildings are tree trunks, palm trees, telegraph poles, barrels containing supplies, and a soldier standing senti...ART91579
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Graham, Frederick Archibald (Lieutenant; Captain 1 Army Ordnance Corps Training Bn, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Graham, Frederick Archibald
Papers including correspondence books detailing troop movements and sports activities, nominal roll, diary written in Rabaul in 1914, typescript poems about Nauru and discharge and other army document...PR89/005
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Green, Francis N (Private, Attached United States Army Forces (USAf) Intelligence Unit)
Private Record
Maker: Green, Francis Nathaniel
REPORTS WITH GENERAL INFORMATION GATHERED BY GREEN ON THE GEOGRAPHY AND SITUATIONS ON RABAUL AND THE DUKE OF YORK ISLANDS AND PRINTED MAP OF PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA. MR GREEN WAS FORMERLY A PATROL OFFICE...PR86/231
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Greeting Card Collection
Published Collection
Maker: Various
The Greeting Card collection consists of both hand-drawn and commercially produced cards sent to and from Australian service personnel engaged in conflicts dating from the South African War (1899-1902...RC00370
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Groves, J J (Sapper, 12 Australian Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers d.1989)
Private Record
Maker: Groves, J J
DIARIES DESCRIBE VARIOUS ACTIVITIES SUCH AS BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT. JAPANESE AND AMERICAN AIR RAIDS ALSO NOTED. PLACES INCLUDE QUEENSLAND, BUNA, WAU AND LAE IN NEW GUINEA AND...PR90/034
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Guadalcanal: America's first offensive (Crusade in the Pacific part 7)
Film
Maker: March of Time Television
United States March of Time television documentary using historic combat and newsreel footage. Covers the battle of Guadalcanal and the campaign in the Solomon Islands. Shows the amphibious landing at...F04959
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Herbert John (Jack) Holmfield as a lance bombardier, 2/22nd Battalion, interviewed by Hank Nelson for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-1945
Sound
Maker: Holmfield, Herbert John (Jack) Nelson, Hank
TAPE 1: Early life; enlisting in army; preparations for departure to Rabaul with 2/22nd Battalion; daily activities in Rabaul before Japanese invasion; Japanese invasion; end of resistance by Australi...S01043
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Holmes, H W (Corporal, District Signals, New Guinea Force)
Private Record
Maker: Holmes, H W
UNDATED CONCERT PROGRAMME. LETTERS DESCRIBE EFFECTS OF AIR RAIDS AND JAPANESE LANDINGS AT RABAUL. BRIEF LEAVE IN QUEENSLAND BEFORE POSTING TO NEW GUINEA, WHERE HE CONTRACTED MALARIA. GIRLS ARE AN IMPO...PR90/023
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Hopper, Kenneth James (Lieutenant Commander, b.1919)
Private Record
Maker: Hopper, Kenneth James
Item (1) photocopies of typed recollections of service on HMAS Marrawah and HMAS Sprightly. Also photocopy of midshipman's journal kept during service on HMAS Canberra 1937-1938. Item (2) journal cont...PR91/006
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Horsfall, Edward James (NX161421, Sapper, Ausrtalian Army, b. 1920)
Manuscript
Maker: Horsfall, Edward James
Spiral bound manuscript relating to the Second World War service of NX161421 Sapper Edward James Horsfall, Australian Army. Horsfall's memoirs detail his war experience with the 23rd Field Company, R...MSS1980
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Hutchinson-Smith, David Chadwick (Captain), 1911-1990
Manuscript
Maker: Hutchinson-Smith, David Chadwick
Black and white photocopy of a 285 page typed manuscript titled 'Guests of the Samurai, by D.C Hutchinson-Smith'. Written by NX70289 Captain David Chadwick Hutchinson-Smith, it covers the period from ...MSS1534
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Hutchinson-Smith, D C
Manuscript
Maker: Hutchinson-Smith, David Chadwick
Narrative account of captivity by the Japanese following the fall of Rabaul and imprisonment on New Britain, shipment to Japan and movement to Zentsuji POW camp. Details of camp life are recorded, inc...MSS1293
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Imamura, Hitoshi
Manuscript
"The tenor of my life". An account of the life of Imamura Hitoshi who was Japanese Army Group Commander at Rabaul Headquarters. His area of command included New Guinea and Bougainville. After the war ...MSS1089
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Jack Humphries Stevens, as a Private, 55/53rd Battalion, interviewed by Daniel Connell for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Sound
Maker: Stevens, Jack Humphries
Discussing pre-war employment; call-up for 55th Battalion; army training at Greta Camp; tensions between AIF and Militia recruits; embarkation for Port Moresby; description of bombing of the Macdhui; ...S00580
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Jack Shepheard interviewed by John Roberts about his Second World War service aboard the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Corvettes, HMAS Geralton, HMAS Tamworth, HMAS Olive Cam and HMAS Kiama
Sound
Maker: Shepheard, Jack McKenzie
Jack Shepheard interviewed by John Roberts about his Second World War service aboard the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Corvettes, HMAS Geralton, HMAS Tamworth, HMAS Olive Cam and HMAS Kiama. A transcri...S01746