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AIF faces Japs in Malaya
Film
Maker: Cinesound
Contains scenes from official Department of Information films F01158 & F01159. AIF in Malaya, Brewster Buffalo Aircraft, burning and blowing up buildings. Commentary, Charles Lawrence Cinesound Review...F00830
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AIF in action in Malaya
Film
Contains scenes from official Department of Information film F01171. Commentary, Charles Lawrence Cinesound Review. Singapore, bomb damage, fire fighting, bren gun carrier, Indian troops in trucks, 25...F00831
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AIF return from Malaya
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
AIF return from Malaya after capitulation of Japan. A general coverage of troops relaxing and playing sport on board troopship. Some shots of a Bofors gun and crew and troops disembarking from troopsh...F01172
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AMBON ISLAND. 1945-09-22. ONE OF THE MESS HUTS IN THE JAPANESE TAN TOEY POW CAMP WHICH HOUSED 8 ...
Photograph
AMBON ISLAND. 1945-09-22. ONE OF THE MESS HUTS IN THE JAPANESE TAN TOEY POW CAMP WHICH HOUSED 8 DIVISION PERSONNEL.118256
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American forces liberate South Korea
Film
Maker: Driver, Roy
Australian troops captured at Singapore in 1942 and liberated in Korea by Allied forces after Japanese capitulation. Film commences with aerial shots of Korean landscape, moves to a panning shot of f...F01244
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Arnold Fraser (Frazer) Caddy as a lance sergeant, 8th Division and POW, 1941-1946, interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton.
Sound
Maker: Caddy, Arnold Fraser
VX60320 Lance Sergeant Arnold Fraser (Frazer) Caddy, 8th Division, interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937–1947" oral history project. The interview touches on topics s...AWM2018.572.11
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Australian POW at 10 Cycle Camp, Batavia
Film
Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Scenes of Australian Army, Navy and Air Force personnel at 10 Cycle Camp. All these POWs were flown back to Singapore. Sapper Newman, 8 Australian Division Engineers, showing his well patched slouch h...F07342
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Australian recovered prisoners of war interviewed by Pilot Officer Jock McPherson, RAAF Combat Broadcast Team, at Changi, Singapore following the surrender of Japan in 1945
Sound
Disc 1 Side 1: Pilot Officer Jock McPherson, as a member of the RAAF Combat Broadcast Team, records from a RAAF Catalina aircraft on its approach to Kelang airport, Singapore. The plane is met by four...S00015
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2/29 Battalion at Segamat, Malaya
Film
Maker: Aikin, Hamilton
1.(Colour) Segamat Malaya 1941, men of the 2/29 Battalion AIF marching. 2. (B&W) 2/29 Battalion AIF on parade and Bren gun carriers. VX38973 LTCOL James Charles Robertson MC VD has been identified as ...F03385
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Bennett visits hospital
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Major General Henry Gordon Bennett, CB, CMG, DSO, VD visits hospital, Singapore. He talks to patients. Patients receive treatment. Scene of an Australian Aboriginal soldier in a hospital bed.F01167
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Berryman, Ross (Driver, 8th Division Ammunition Sub Park, AIF, POW)
Private Record
Maker: Berryman, Ross
PHOTOCOPY OF DIARY CONTAINING NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF FELLOW POW'S AND ENTRIES COVERING JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1945. KEPT SECRETLY IN JAPANESE PRISON CAMPPR86/142
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Bills, Walter Russell (Driver, b.1915 - d.1943)
Private Record
Maker: Bills, Walter Russell
Collection of typed transcripts of letters originally written by VX34071 Driver Walter R Bills of 1AASC Petrol Company, 8 Division, covering the period February 1941-February 1942. The letters, writte...PR03205
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Boreham, Godfrey James (Geoff) (Captain, 8 Division, Australian Army Service Corps b.1911 - d.1987)
Private Record
Maker: Boreham, Godfrey James
MATERIAL RELATES TO PERIOD SPENT IN CAPTIVITY AS A POW IN CHANGI GAOL, SINGAPORE. MOST IS MAINLY CONCERNED WITH RATIONS. INCLUDES CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARDS ON PAPER MADE IN CHANGIPR90/055
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Browne, Kevin James (Warrant Officer, b.1918 - d.1990)
Private Record
Maker: Browne, Kevin James
Diaries describe experiences during the latter part of the campaign against the Japanese prior to the surrender, and imprisonment in Changi, where he was attached to the AIF pay office. Detailed daily...PR00531
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Brown, Robert RAE (Sapper, HQ Rae, 8th Div AIF and POW)
Private Record
Maker: Brown, Robert
POW POSTCARDS - LITTLE INFORMATIONPR85/157
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Burrey, Edward William. (Staff, Sergeant, b.1920 - d.2004)
Private Record
Maker: Burrey, Edward William
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX58148 Sergeant Edward William Burrey, 8 Australian Division, Malaya and Singapore, 1942-1945. Collection contains two diaries of Sergeant Edwa...PR00662
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Chalmers, Hector McDonald (Lieutenant, 8 Div AIF and POW - Japan)
Private Record
Maker: Chalmers, Hector McDonald
BOOK OF SHORT STORIES, WRITTEN BY LT CHALMERS WHILE IN CHANGI, BOUND IN CHANGI. JULY 1945PR84/252
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Colonel A Derham
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Colonel Alfred Plumley Derham (VX13486), MC, ED, Assistant Director Medical Services. He had served in the First World War. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at Singapore, 19...ART26429
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Colonel Wilfred Kent-Hughes
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Colonel Wilfred Selwyn Kent-Hughes (VX26600), KBE, MVO, MC, MID, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General of the AIF 8th Division. Kent-Hughes served as a member of the 7 Infantry Battalion in the...ART26205
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Corner, C C (Private, HQ 22nd Bde AIF, POW)
Private Record
Maker: Corner, C C
Cardboard shield bearing the emu and boomerang crest of the 8th Division, annotated with signatures of Headquarters 22 Infantry Brigade personnel. Accompanying note of explanation about the board and ...PR86/194
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Corporal Geoffrey John Walter Bingham
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Corporal Geoffrey John Walter Bingham (NX51770), DCM, 8 Division signals. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at Singapore. Bingham was awarded his Distinguished Conduct Medal...ART26453
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Dale, F (Jimmy) (Signaller, 8th Div Sig)
Private Record
Maker: Dale, F
LETTER WRITTEN BY SIG DALE TO A WORKMATE COMMENTING ON THE EARLY OPPOSITION TO THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON MALAYAPR90/121
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Dandie, Alex
Private Record
Prisoner of war nominal roll book; typed copy of Dandie's diary; letters to Dandie's parents; renditions regarding broadcast from Radio Saigon; manuscript 'J Force'; censored envelope containing lette...PR01193
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1. Darwin - Singapore line 2. Consul-General for Japan speaks (Cinesound News No 489)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No 489 1. (1 min 58 sec) Documentary showing the problems facing Australia in her near north, beginning in Darwin, travelling through Batavia and the Netherlands ...F00520
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Davis, Cyril Bowen (Signalman, 8th Aust Div and POW, Nagasaki)
Private Record
Maker: Davis, Cyril Bowen (Dusty)
Two original one page letters and one envelope from NX72134 Signalman Cyril Bowen Davis to his family at home (no dates) whilst a prisoner of war of the Japanese; original black and white photograph t...3DRL/7926
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Davis, Cyril B (Private, 8th Aust Div Sigs and POW, Japan)
Private Record
Maker: Davis, Cyril Bowen (Dusty)
TELEGRAM THROUGH INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS RE PLACE OF DAVIS' INCARCERATION. THREE POW POSTCARDS TO WIFE.3DRL/2212
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Death railway
Film
Maker: Bilcock and Copping Melbourne Pty Ltd
Relates the story of the building by prisoners of the Japanese of the Burma-Siam Railway during the 1939-1945 war. Uses interviews with survivors, contemporary colour footage of the area and B&W archi...F10252
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8 Division AIF and RAAF march through Sydney
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
Movietone News coverage of the city march by units of the 8th Division 2nd AIF and RAAF prior to deployment Malaya.F03389
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8 Division POW on board HMT Highland Brigade
Film
Maker: McLeish, N
Scenes taken on board HMT Highland Brigade of men of 8 Division and civilians who had been prisoners of the Japanese for some three and a half years, during the trip from Singapore to Fremantle, WA. T...F07340
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Dorse, Gordon (Corporal)
Private Record
Maker: Various
Collection relating to the service of NX46737 Corporal Gordon Dorse, 2/3 Reserve Motor Transport Company, Malaya, 1941. Collection includes letters to a friend Vera Cook, 194; photographs of Dorse in...PR03228
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Drexel, Horace Hayden (Private)
Private Record
Maker: Drexel, Horace Hayden
Papers from Hoten Camp Manchuria and Chosen POW Camp Korea, including POW letter cards, nominal roll, and illustrated hand-drawn card showing Australian and other British Prisoners of war.PR00188
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Dr Redmond Sheedy as a Sergeant, 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Second World War, interviewed by Dr John Mitchell
Sound
Maker: Sheedy, Redmond Stuart Parnell Mitchell, John
SX5435 Sergeant Redmond Stuart Parnell Sheedy, 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, relates his experiences as a prisoner of war (POW) in H Force. This is one of 21 interviews conducted by Dr John Mitchell, r...S01506
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Duncan, Ian Lovell (Captain, b.1915 - d.1994), AM
Private Record
Maker: Duncan, Ian Lovell
(1) Copy of medical record book dated 1 April 1943 to 24 January 1944, raised in Thailand. (2) Copy of documents from the back of the above book dated 1944/45. (3) Copy of Hospital Record Book III, da...PR86/276
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Ellerman, Lloyd (Corporal, 8th Div Signals, AIF b.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Ellerman, Lloyd William
PHOTOCOPIED TYPESCRIPT OF MEMOIRS COVERING ENLISTMENT AND TRAINING, ACTION IN MALAYA AND CAPTURE BY JAPANESE. INCARCERATION IN CHANGI AND KOBE WORKING IN COALMINES, LIBERATION AND REPATRIATIONPR86/369
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Elliott, Jack William Weir (Major, b.1907 - d.1999)
Private Record
Maker: Elliott, Jack William Weir
REPORT ON ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF CHANGI CEMETERY BY CAPT ELLIOTT WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERSIGHT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE AREA. 14 PHOTOS OF CHANGI CEMETERY AND CAUSE OF DEATH3DRL/6209
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Evans, Leonard A (Lieutenant, AASC and POW)
Private Record
Maker: Evans, Leonard A
2 RECEIPTS. REPORT FROM MAY GLASGOW, OC 8 DIV AMN SUB PARK RE MOVEMENT OF SUPPLIES. REPORT RE DRAFT OF "F" FORCE REQUESTING OFFICERS FROM OWN BATTALION TO ACCOMPANY MEN3DRL/7740
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Evans, Leonard A (Lieutenant, 8th Aust Div Ammunition Sub Park and POW, Japan)
Private Record
Maker: Evans, Leonard A
AFFADAVIT OF EVANS PREPARED FOR USE BY WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATORS RE STEALING FROM PRISONERS' RATIONS BY JAPANESE GUARDS. COPY OF DIARY FOR PERIOD 1942-1945. REGULAR ENTRIES UP TO 1944 AND IRREGULAR AFT...3DRL/7918
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Everson, Cecil (Private, 8th Div Mobile Laundry, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Everson, Cecil
SKETCH MAP OF ROUTE TAKEN BY EVERSON AND HIS UNIT ESCAPING FROM SINGAPORE ACROSS SUMATRA IN 1942PR86/282
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Film flashes pictured by Movietone: 8th Division march in Sydney
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
Film flashes pictured by Movietone: 8th Division march in SydneyF03388
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First Australians leaving Singapore
Film
Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
Released Australian prisoners of war at Kallang airfield, Singapore waiting for aircraft to depart for Australia. Japanese soldiers pushing disabled transport through the streets of Singapore; other J...F01683
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First bombing of Singapore. AIF stand to
Film
Maker: Nichols, Melmer Frank
Buildings being demolished by explosives. Burning building with only the frame left standing, black smoke and flames rising. An Australian 8th Division 25 pounder gun crew. Crew load and fire gun. Si...F01158
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Fisher, Frederick John Anderson (Warrant Officer 2)
Private Record
Maker: Fisher, Frederick John Anderson
ORIGINAL NOTEBOOK AND REPORT WRITTEN BY WO2 FISHER OUTLINING THE ESCAPE FROM SINGAPORE ON 15 FEB 1942 OF MEMBERS OF THE UNIT UNDER LT K R KING, THEIR PASSAGE TO SUMATRA, EVENTUAL DEPARTURE FOR CEYLON ...PR88/138
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Fox, Edward James (Signaller, 8th Div Signals, AIF b.1923)
Private Record
Maker: Fox, Edward James
NOTES TAKEN BY DONOR IN CHANGI POW CAMP RELATED TO THE SINKING OF THE "PRINCE OF WALES", SUNDRY ACCOUNTS AND A NEW TESTAMENT CARRIED THROUGHOUT CAPTIVITYPR84/343
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Galleghan, Frederick 'Black Jack' (Brigadier, b.1897 - d.1971)
Private Record
Maker: Galleghan, Frederick Gallagher 'Black Jack'
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Brigadier Frederick Galleghan. Collection consist of photocopies of correspondence between Brigadier Frederick Galleghan and Major K J McGee reg...3DRL/3857
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Galleghan, Frederick Gallagher (Brigadier, DSO, OBE, ED, 8th Aust Div and POW, Changi)
Private Record
Maker: Galleghan, Frederick Gallagher 'Black Jack'
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX70416 Brigadier F.G. Galleghan D.S.O. O.B.E. E.D., 8th Australian Division, 1942-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection contains one notebook inclu...3DRL/2191
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Galleghan, Sir Frederick Gallagher 'Black Jack' (Brigadier, b.1897 - d.1971)
Private Record
Maker: Galleghan, Frederick Gallagher 'Black Jack'
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Brigadier Sir Frederick Gallagher 'Black Jack' Galleghan DSO, OBE, ED, 8th Australian Division and prisoner of war, Changi. Collection consists ...3DRL/2313
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1. Gray, David. 2. Morrow, William (1. Sergeant, 8th Div Sig, AIF. 2. 8th Div Sig, AIF)
Private Record
TYPESCRIPT COPY OF STATEMENTS DETAILING SIGNALS TRAINING IN MALAYA, BATTLE ACTION IN THE WITHDRAWAL TO SINGAPORE, COMMENTS ON LT GEN GORDON BENNETT, DEPARTURE WITH COL BROADBENT'S PARTY, LATER SINKING...PR88/101
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Hannah, Robert Buchanan
Private Record
Maker: Hannah, Robert Buchanan
Collection relating to VX37681 Sergeant (Sgt) Robert Buchanan Hannah who served with 2/22 Infantry Battalion, 8th Division, which formed part of Lark Force. Comprises one original handwritten letter a...PR04517
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HMS Formidable and HMS Speaker
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Australian soldiers arrived at South Harbour, Manila, by trucks from the 8th Australian Prisoner of War Reception Camp and were taken out to the Royal Navy aircraft carriers HMS Formidable and HMS Spe...F01626
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Holman, Robert (Private, b.1919 - d.?)
Private Record
Maker: Holman, Robert
Illustrated memoir compiled by NX44861 Private Robert Holman, documenting his experience as a Japanese prisoner of war on the Burma Thailand Railway and later at the coal mines in Omuta, Japan.PR04040