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  1. Anakan (Anganan) (Aungganuang), Burma. c. September 1945. Lieutenant J. Eldridge, a British ...

    Photograph

    Anakan (Anganan) (Aungganuang), Burma. c. September 1945. Lieutenant J. Eldridge, a British member of the War Graves Commission survey party, and two Japanese officers. They are searching this overgro...

    P00761.044

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    Anakan (Anganan) (Aungganuang), Burma. c. September 1945. Members of the War Graves Commission ...

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    Anakan (Anganan) (Aungganuang), Burma. c. September 1945. Members of the War Graves Commission survey party whose task was to locate prisoner of war (POW) cemeteries and grave sites along the Burma-Th...

    P00761.051

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    A PARTY OF AUSTRALIAN EX PRISONERS OF WAR ABOUT TO LEAVE NAKOM PATON CAMP TO SEARCH FOR SUSPECTED ...

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    A PARTY OF AUSTRALIAN EX PRISONERS OF WAR ABOUT TO LEAVE NAKOM PATON CAMP TO SEARCH FOR SUSPECTED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS IN THE AREA.

    118847

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    A surgical operation in progress in the operating theatre at the prisoner of war (POW) hospital ...

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    Maker: Unknown

    A surgical operation in progress in the operating theatre at the prisoner of war (POW) hospital camp. Of the 896 operations which were performed here there was a mortality rate of 18. In January 1944,...

    157874

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    Babb, C H (Chaplain, British Army)

    Private Record

    Maker: Babb, C H

    BABB'S DIARY RECORDING JOURNEY BY BABB AND OTHER EX PRISONERS OF WAR OF JAPANESE ALONG BURMA SIAM RAILWAY LINE FROM BANGKOK TO THANBYUZAYAT TO POINT OUT LOCATION OF GRAVE SITES TO WAR GRAVES COMMISSIO...

    PRMF0069

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    Bangkok, Thailand. c. 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the Australian War Graves ...

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    Bangkok, Thailand. c. 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the Australian War Graves Commission survey party at Nakom Pathon waiting to board their train for the search for POW cemeteries and gra...

    P00761.037

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    BANGKOK, THAILAND. 18 SEPTEMBER 1945. AUSTRALIAN 8TH DIVISION MEN DEMONSTRATE THE "G" STRING ...

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    Maker: Stuckey, Norman Bradford

    BANGKOK, THAILAND. 18 SEPTEMBER 1945. AUSTRALIAN 8TH DIVISION MEN DEMONSTRATE THE "G" STRING ("JAP NAPPIES") WHILE WAITING AT BANGKOK AIRPORT FOR AIR TRANSPORT. THESE WERE PRACTICALLY THE ONLY CLOTHES...

    118846

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    Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the War Graves ...

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    Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the War Graves Commission survey party displaying the camera, film and documents recovered on 27 September 1945 at the 10...

    P00761.042

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    Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the War Graves ...

    Photograph

    Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the War Graves Commission survey party. This group's task was to locate POW cemeteries and grave sites along the Burma-Th...

    P00761.048

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    Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Members of the Australian War Graves Commission survey ...

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    Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Members of the Australian War Graves Commission survey party in a jeep searching for isolated prisoner of war (POW) cemeteries along the railway line. On the...

    P00761.036

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    Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945-1946. Warrant Officer Class 2 L. Cody, 2/4th Machine ...

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    Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945-1946. Warrant Officer Class 2 L. Cody, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion and Sergeant J. H. Sherman (Schurman), 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, ex-prisoner of war (POW...

    P00761.045

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    Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Warrant Officer Class 2 L. Cody, 2/4th Machine Gun ...

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    Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Warrant Officer Class 2 L. Cody, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, an ex-prisoner of war (POW) member of the War Graves Commission survey party. Their task was to...

    P00761.046

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    Burma-Thailand Railway. 1945. Members of the War Graves Commission Survey Party sent from Bangkok ...

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    Burma-Thailand Railway. 1945. Members of the War Graves Commission Survey Party sent from Bangkok after the war to check prisoner of war (POW) graves, search for records etc, signing for their pay en ...

    P00761.050

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    Diary of Roy Clifford Mudiman, 1945

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Mudiman, Roy Clifford

    Diary relating to the Second World War service of NX52458 Roy Clifford Mudiman, 2/20th Infantry Battalion. This diary written between 7 February 1945 - 2 November 1945 mentions: movement of his work g...

    AWM2019.22.183

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    Holland, Herbert Sawford (Driver, b.1911-d.1990)

    Private Record

    Maker: Holland, Herbert Sawford

    Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX69236 Driver Herbert Sawford Holland, 2/3 Reserve Motor Transport Company, Second Australian Imperial Force, Thailand and Australia, 1945. Wal...

    PR05821

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    Jacobs, James William 'Jim' (VX40983, Major, 8 Corps of Signals)

    Manuscript

    Maker: Jacobs, James 'Jim' William

    "The Burma Railway: One Man's Story" written by Major James William Jacobs. He was captured in Singapore and taken to Selarang Barracks, Changi. Major Jacobs was part of the 'A' Force who was taken to...

    MSS1840

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    Kinsaiyok, Thailand. September 1945. Leading Aircraftman S. O. Simpson, RAAF, and Sergeant J. H. ...

    Photograph

    Kinsaiyok, Thailand. September 1945. Leading Aircraftman S. O. Simpson, RAAF, and Sergeant J. H. Sherman (Schurman), 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion, ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the War Graves Commi...

    P00761.047

  18.

    Letters of Ronald Maurice Pullin, 1943-1945

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Pullin, Ronald Maurice

    Letters relating to the Second World War service of Sergeant 13246 Sergeant Ronald Maurice Pullin, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force. Pullin was a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and was inte...

    AWM2019.22.199

  19.

    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

  20.

    McKissock, Archibald

    Private Record

    Maker: McKissock, Archibald

    Original diary written during the last days of the Second World War by NX17891 Corporal (Cpl) Archibald (Archie) McKissock of 2/6 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, while awaiting release from...

    PR03069

  21.

    Memoir of Austin Ellerman Yeats

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Ellerman, Austin Yeats

    Memoir relating to the Second World War service of VX50052 Captain Austin Yeats Ellerman, 2/29 Battalion, Australia, c 1955. The 29-page typescript, entitled 'Austin in the Army - Reminiscences', des...

    AWM2020.22.32

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    Nakom Paton, Thailand. 18 September 1945. Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese who ...

    Photograph

    Maker: Stuckey, Norman Bradford

    Nakom Paton, Thailand. 18 September 1945. Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese who were patients in ward 18 of the Nakom Paton POW Hospital Camp. These men were working on the Japanese de...

    118853

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    Nakom Paton, Thailand. 18 September 1945. Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese who ...

    Photograph

    Maker: Stuckey, Norman Bradford

    Nakom Paton, Thailand. 18 September 1945. Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese who are patients in ward 18 of the Nakom Paton POW Hospital Camp. These men were working on the Japanese def...

    118857

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    Nakom Paton, Thailand. 18 September 1945. Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese who ...

    Photograph

    Maker: Stuckey, Norman Bradford

    Nakom Paton, Thailand. 18 September 1945. Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese who are patients in ward 18 of the Nakom Paton POW Hospital Camp. These men were working on the Japanese def...

    118855

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    Thanbyuzayat, Burma. c. September 1945. Members of a War Graves Commission survey party with a ...

    Photograph

    Thanbyuzayat, Burma. c. September 1945. Members of a War Graves Commission survey party with a metal box of films, paybooks and other records recovered from the grave of TX4217 Private D. A. Eyles, 2/...

    P00761.035

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    Transcript of the diaries of Roy Clifford Mudiman, 1941-1945

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Mudiman, Roy Clifford

    Transcript of the diaries relating to the Second World War service of NX52458 Roy Clifford Mudiman, 2/20th Infantry Battalion. This transcript of the diaries written between 7 December 1941 - 2 Novemb...

    AWM2019.22.184

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    White, Norman Martin (Lieutenant, b.1914)

    Private Record

    Maker: White, Norman Martin

    Diary of Lt White written whilst he was a POW in Changi and with 'F' Force on the Burma-Thailand Railway. The diary details the daily struggle of POWs against disease, starvation and the Japanese guar...

    PR00410

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