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Australian Postcard Collection 1914-1918
Published Collection
Maker: Various
Postcards printed in or about Australia or Australians. The collection covers themes such as patriotism, camp life, humanitarian organisations, fund raising events in Australia, humour and cartoons, A...RC00686
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Barbed wire and bamboo
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian War Memorial Unknown
Australian War Memorial advertising poster for the exhibition 'Barbed Wire and Bamboo' of 1976. The central image is of a stuffed toy kangaroo with a joey behind three horizontal lines of barbed wire....ARTV05244
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Barnett, Benjamin Arthur (Captain, b.1908 - d.1979)
Private Record
Maker: Barnett, Benjamin Arthur
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX29818 Captain Benjamin Arthur Barnett, 8 Division Signals, Changi Prisoner of War Camp, Singapore, 1942-1946. This collection consists of tele...AWM2017.101.3
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Bastian, Henry John (Warrant Officer) 1917-1989
Manuscript
Maker: Bastian, Henry John
Manuscript written by Warrant Officier Henry John Bastian, "Harry, why we don't forget". Bastian documents his enlistment in the Royal Australian Air Force as a trainee pilot, training at Tamworth an...MSS1566
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Bottle of German POW distilled spirits, HMNZT Willochra : Major I Isaacson, Special Service, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Metal container made of tin containing spirits. The body is a piece of long rectangular tin shaped into an oval and soldered along the long edge in the middle back of the container. Soldered to each e...RELAWM12206
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Concert and Theatre Programs, Second World War, 1939-1945, Souvenirs 3
Published Collection
Maker: Various
The collection contains programs for plays, concerts, revues and cinemas. These events have been hosted for and by a wide variety of units and organisations.RC00691
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Daphne Lowe
Private Record
Letters of thanks sent to Mrs Lowe from the mothers of Australian Pow's, to whom she had passed on details of short wave radio broadcasts from their husbands and sons.PR00407
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Doolan, Bernard Patrick (Sergeant, b.1910 - d.1999)
Private Record
Maker: Doolan, Bernard Patrick
Collection relating to the Second World War service of WX9391 Sergeant Bernard Patrick “Barny” Doolan, 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion, Burma, Thailand and Australia, 1940-1944. Sergeant Doolan served with...AWM2017.366.11
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Heckendorf, Erwin Ernest (Sergeant, b.1906 - d.1991) and John Llewelyn (Pilot Officer, b.? - d.1943)
Private Record
Maker: Heckendorf, Erwin Ernest
Collection includes service records, transcripts of oral history tape recorded in 1983, prisoner of war diary and lettercards, telegrams and correspondence between Sergeant Heckendorf, his family and ...PR00686
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Jeater, William David (Lieutenant Colonel)
Private Record
Maker: Jeater, William David Various
Collection relating to Lieutenant Colonel William David Jeater, 2/20 Battalion, Second World War. Collection comprises nominal rolls and letters written by Jeater while a prisoner of war at Changi fr...PR03463
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Johnson, Kenneth Tebbet (Lieutenant, MBE ED, b.1920 - d.2007)
Private Record
Maker: Johnson, Kenneth Tebbet
Collection relating to the Second World War service of WX259 Lieutenant Kenneth Tebbet Johnson, 2/11 Infantry Battalion. Collection consists of a 'wartime log', issued to Johnson, while he was a pris...PR90/103
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Lawrence, Lindsay Palmer (Gunner, b.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Lawrence, Lindsay Palmer
Letters to his family describing training, sea voyage, training and leave in the U.K., active service in North Africa including the taking of Tobruk. Lawrence was later taken prisoner on Crete, and le...PR00225
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Leslie, Harry (Private)
Private Record
Maker: Leslie, Harry
Photocopies of papers related to prisoner of war experiences of Harry Leslie, of the 5th Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. Includes leaflets for public talks, draft copies of prepared...PR00516
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Liley, Jack William Fenton (Warrant Officer)
Manuscript
Maker: Liley, Jack William Fenton
Memoir written by Jack William Fenton Liley, "Jack's war" documenting his service with the Royal Australian Air Force in the Second World War. Liley describes his aircrew training in Australia and En...MSS1436
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Lister, Ronald Walker (Lieutenant)
Private Record
Maker: Lister, Ronald Walter
Papers of Lieutenant VX7502 Ronald Walter Lister who served with the 2/1 Australian Ordnance Stores Company during the Second World War. The collection comprises a diary, service records, articles on...PR01851
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Mackenzie, Ronald Charles (Warrant Officer)
Manuscript
Maker: Mackenzie, Ronald Charles
Manuscript written by Ronald Charles Mackenzie, "An ordinary war 1940-1945", based on diaries he kept during the Second World War. Mackenzie documents his training as a wireless air gunner in Austral...MSS1441
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Marshall, Henry Charles David (Major, b.1905 - d.1971)
Private Record
Maker: Marshall, Henry Charles David
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX34 Major Henry Charles David Marshall, DSO, ED, 2/7 Infantry Battalion, 1939-1945. The collection consists of fifteen handwritten booklets o...PR03058
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McCarthy, Frederick Daniel (Private, b.1903 - d.1944)
Private Record
Maker: McCarthy, Frederick Daniel
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX56372 Private Frederick Daniel McCarthy, No 3 Motor Transport Company and prisoner of war. Collection consists of an original diary written be...PR00583
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McDonough, Allan Vernon (Jock), (Flight Lieutenant, b.1914 - d.2005)
Manuscript
Maker: Johnson, Anne Johnson, Ross McDonough, Allan Vernon 'Jock'
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 407008 Flight Lieutenant Allan Vernon 'Jock' McDonough, 9 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. Collection consists of one manuscript titled "Ex...MSS1676
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Mills, Roy Markham MID AM (Captain (Dr), b.1917 - d.2000)
Private Record
Maker: Mills, Roy Markham
Three addresses given by Dr Roy Mills relating to prisoners of war of the Japanese (largely the 8th Division and Pond's Party of 'F' Force) and of the Germans. 1. "The glorious 8th Division AIF the Au...PR91/198
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Molloy, Francis James (Private)
Private Record
Maker: Molloy, Francis James
POW letter cards sent home from Burma-Thailand railway by Pte Molloy; postcard sent from Perth prior to embarkation for Malaya; 1943 mother's day card; welcome home card.3DRL/7504B
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Ong, Nelson Chieng Siew (b.1921 - d.1978)
Private Record
Maker: Various
The four letters in this collection were sent to Nelson Ong after the Second World War and concern the death in 1943 of his friend QX17257 Acting Sergeant Desmond Mackay, while a POW in Thailand. Nels...PR04038
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Prisoner of war register
Private Record
Maker: Unknown
Register recording details of Australian merchant marines taken prisoner of war during the Second World War.PR03023
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Series 15: Photographs and postcards, 1914-1930
Digitised Collection
Maker: Various
This series contains 366 black and white photographs dated between 1914 and 1930. Some of these photographs relate to the Birdwood family but the majority are official photographs taken at Gallipoli a...RCDIG0000132
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Souvenir army blanket : Warrant Officer A G Bolwell, Australian Army Ordnance Corps
Heraldry
Maker: Bolwell, Arthur G
Standard issue khaki wool army blanket covered with hundreds of Australian colour patches, wings, chevrons and cap badges attached by hand stitch in a variety of cotton thread. Dispersed among the Aus...REL39782
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Souvenirs 2, Concert and Theatre Programs Collection - First World War 1914-1918
Published Collection
Maker: Various
The Concert and Theatre Programs Collection contains hand-drawn and commercially printed programs produced to complement or advertise concerts, plays, musical evenings, recitals, pantomimes and revues...PUBS002
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Startin, Ian Hamilton (Gunner, b.1916 - d.1995)
Private Record
Maker: Startin, Ian Hamilton 'Tony'
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX45693 Gunner Ian 'Tony' Hamilton Startin, 2/15 Field Regiment RAA. Following the fall of Sinagpore in February 1942, Gunner Startin became a p...PR04960
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Tonkin, Rolstyn Nicholas (Sergeant, b.1913 - d.1988)
Private Record
Maker: Tonkin, Rolstyn Nicholas
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX37081 Sergeant Rolstyn Nicholas Tonkin, Germany, 1942-1945. Sergeant Tonkin became a prisoner of war following the capitulation of Allied Forc...PR03241
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Turner, Jack Wilfred
Private Record
Collection relating to the Second World War service of SX10112 Private Jack Wilfred Turner, 2/27th Infantry Battalion and POW. Collection consists two original diaries plus a typescript memoir descri...PR00651
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Watching the boxing contest
Art
Maker: Abbott, Harold
A scene on board SS Duntroon during the voyage to Singapore taking 2 Australian Prisoner-of-War Reception Group to repatraite liberated Australian prisoners-of-war. The liberated prisoners are seen at...ART24402
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White, George Harold (Corporal, b.1914 - d.1981)
Private Record
Maker: Various White, George Harold
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX27159 Corporal George H White, 2/30th Battalion. The collection comprises letters, telegrams and postcards exchanged between White and family...PR04003