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CHISHOLM, Graham
Private Record
Maker: Chisholm, Graham
"As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country" - Proverbs xxv 25; a document signed by POWs Changi in recognition of Mr Chisholm's work distributing news to them; accompanied b...3DRL/2390
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Chitty, Leslie Allan (Corporal, b.1912 - d.1996)
Private Record
Maker: Chitty, Leslie Allan Chitty, Phillip Francis Commonwealth of Australia Porter, Frederick
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX48347 Corporal Leslie Allan ‘Peter’ Chitty, 2/2 Motor Ambulance Convoy, Second Australian Imperial Force, Malaya and Australia, 1942-1945. Wal...PR04681
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Christie, F W (Gunner, 2/4th Anti Tank Regiment, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Christie, F W
TYPESCRIPT OF DIARY KEPT BY GUNNER CHRISTIE APRIL 1941 TO OCTOBER 1945 RECORDING DAILY ROUTINES ESPECIALLY WHILE A PRISONER OF WAR OF THE JAPANESE AT VARIOUS CAMPS INCLUDING CHANGI AND NAKARMA, JAPANPR89/173
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Clarinet in case : Signalman H W Almond, 8 Division Signals, AIF Concert Party
Heraldry
Maker: Boosey & Hawkes Ltd
Clarinet in plastic with plated metal keys and mouthpiece cover. Each separate section of the clarinet (mouth piece, barrel joint, body and bell), is impressed with serial number 34651. The upper body...REL35412
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Clarke, Jack Alfred Hopetoun (Sergeant, b.1912)
Private Record
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX43493 Sergeant Jack Alfred Hopetoun Clarke, 2/10 Australian General Hospital. Consists of a handwritten Christmas greeting card sent by women a...PR82/023
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Classical concert, Changi
Art
Maker: Sprod, George Napier
Depicts a classical concert held in Changi, with a soloist violin and piano player on stage in front of an audience.ART29034
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Coconut grove theatre
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Theatre built by POWs at Changi. The theatre became a popular attraction in the camp, and the productions that were staged bacame more and more elaborate over the years the men were in captivity.ART25055
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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 Edward Holmes
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of British Lieutenant Colonel Edward Barclay Holmes, MC, commander of British and Australian troops, after the departure of General Percival from Changi in August 1942.ART26430
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Colonel James Thyer
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Colonel James Hervey Thyer (VX12755), member of General Bennett's staff and GOC1. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at Singapore.ART26431
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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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Colour patch : Bombadier A E Lawrence, 2/15 Field Regiment
Heraldry
Maker: Australian Army
Felt colour patch for 8th Division Artillery, consisting of a horizontally aligned elongated oval divided diagonally red over blue, within a grey border.REL49867
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Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire : Brigadier A S Blackburn
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Unnamed as issued.OL00271.003
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Commemorative handkerchief for members of C Company, 2/30 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Standard army issue khaki cotton handkerchief with a 2cm hem on each sides. On the top right hand corner is a small 'x' with a dash. The same symbol is on the opposite corner but on the back. The bac...REL30186
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Commemorative Plaque and Roll of Honour : 'A' Company, 2/29th Battalion, for the Battle of Muar
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Rectangular aluminium plaque commemorating the names of soldiers from 'A' company 2/29 Battalion, killed at the battle of Muar in Malaya, 18-22 January 1942. The plaque is lightly coloured and highlig...REL28441
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Commission Appointed by the Authorities of Sime Read Internment Camp Hearing Document
Private Record
Maker: Commission Appointed by the Authorities of Sime Read Internment Camp
Collection relating to the commission appointed by the authorities of Sime Road Internment Camp, Singapore, 1943-1945. Collection consists of a typescript of findings made by a commission appointed ...PR00721
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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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Concert party, Changi camp, 1942
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Four members of a concert party perform on a makeshift stage. Murray Griffin was an official war artist appointed in 1941 with 8th Division AIF in Malaya. He was prisoner of war at the fall of Singapo...ART24467
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Cooking rice on deep fry stove, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
To cope with the requirements of many thousands of men, three large deep-fry cooking stoves were constructed in Changi Goal. Here a round-the-clock staff turned the monotonous rice into more appetisin...ART26493
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Copy of a sketch of Changi Gaol Playhouse. The theatre was built by Prisoners of War (POWs) in ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Copy of a sketch of Changi Gaol Playhouse. The theatre was built by Prisoners of War (POWs) in Changi Gaol. Possibly George Napier Sprod.043932
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Coridas, Clement Douglas (Corporal, b.1909 - d.1967)
Private Record
Maker: Coridas, Clement Douglas
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX46480 Corporal Clement Douglas Coridas, Singapore, 1942-1945. Collection consists of a notebook is crudely made from scrap paper, from the per...PR05986
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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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Corporal S.K. Elliman, 4th Australian Anti-Tank Regiment, outside his self constructed hut in the ...
Photograph
Corporal S.K. Elliman, 4th Australian Anti-Tank Regiment, outside his self constructed hut in the prisoner of war camp. He made up a transmitter/receiving set from scraps from an aircraft dump and sec...042308
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Correspondence relating to service of Alexander Roland Campbell Johnstone
Digitised Collection
Maker: Johnstone, Alexander Roland Campbell (Alex)
Correspondence relating to the Second World War service of NX20572 Corporal Alexander Roland Campbell Johnstone, 2/15th Field Regiment and Audit Office, Command Pay Staff of the AIF in Malaya. This ...AWM2019.22.194
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Cox, Stanley Thomas Timmins (Corporal , b. 1901 - d.1958)
Private Record
Maker: Cox, Stanley Thomas Timmins
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX35600 Corporal Stanley Thomas Timmins Cox, Changi, 1942-1944. Wallet 1 of 1 - consists of Cox's original diary, and one photocopy and two type...3DRL/6057
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Cribbage board from Changi : Sergeant Robert Charles Shelton, 2/9 Field Ambulance
Heraldry
Maker: Shelton, R C
Handmade rectangular wooden cribbage board topped with a perforated alloy plate. The plate is engraved with the Australian coat of arms in the centre, in which the shield and crown elements have been ...REL25173.001
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Cribbage Board : Private M R Cox, 2/26 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Cox, Malcolm Richard
Hand engraved aluminium cribbage board mounted on wood. There is a small aluminium plate screwed to the end of each board, which swivels to reveal the peg storage. THe top plate is punched with standa...REL/09122
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Cribbage Board : Private M R Cox, 2/26 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Cox, Malcolm Richard
Hand engraved aluminium cribbage board mounted on wood. There is a small aluminium plate screwed to each end of the board that swivels to reveal a storage space for the scoring pegs. The top plate is ...REL/09121
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Cribbage Board : Signalman W J McPherson, 2/20 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Handmade aluminium cribbage board with four panels of punched out holes for the pegs, grouped in three sets of ten holes for each panel. The board is hand engraved with a thatched hut, palm trees and...REL29050
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Crosley, William T. (Civilian internee, b.1897)
Private Record
Maker: Crosley, William T.
Collection relating to the internment of civilian William T. Crosley, in Singapore during the Second World War, 1942-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 - Consists of a 26-page hand written letter, dated 10 October ...AWM2022.50.1
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Cunningham, H (Padre)
Private Record
Maker: Cunningham, H
BIBLE USED BY PADRE CUNNINGHAM DURING HIS IMPRISONMENT AT CHANGI POW CAMP AND LATER WORK ON THE BURMA-THAILAND RAILWAY. ANNOTATEDPR83/239
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Cuthbe, Mr and Mrs K V (Civilians, Changi Civil Internment Camp)
Private Record
Maker: Cuthbe, Augusta Mary Cuthbe, Kenneth Vincent
SCRAPBOOK ALBUM COVERING PERIOD OF INTERNMENT IN THE CHANGI CIVIL CAMP, INCLUDING SKETCHES OF CAMP IDENTITIES, REGULATIONS, DETAILS OF INTERNMENT, VARIOUS POEMS AND PRINTED WORKS CIRCULATING IN THE CA...PR83/023
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Cuthbert, Robert Henry (Captain, b.1917 - d.2006)
Private Record
Maker: Cuthbert, Robert Henry
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 133220 Captain Robert Henry Cuthbert, 196 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, Singapore, Burma-Thai Railway, and the United Kingdom, 1942-...PR03307
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Cut throat razor : Sergeant S Bryant-Smith, 2/29 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: T R Cadman & Sons, Sheffield
Folding cut throat type razor with black bakelite handle. Razor is stored in a handmade webbing pouch with button closure, and a remnant cardboard sleeve. Black bakelite handle is stamped in gold on o...REL25220
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Cutting boot repair nails, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
'A recital of all the inventions and improvisations would become wearisome; it is hoped that the pictures will show something of the range of activities'. Griffin later turned to depicting the inventi...ART26456
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Cutting firewood for Changi camp
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men of the AIF Forestry unit cutting wood. This work party was established in the very early days of the men's captivity, as wood for fuel for cooking and wood for structures of the camp were required...ART24476
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Cutting up rubber logs for firewood, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Three men from the 2 Australian Imperial Force cutting rubber tree logs with an axe for firewood. Providing firewood for the camp was one of the main activities for the prisoners, as without wood ther...ART26487
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DARLING HARBOUR, NSW. 1945-09-28. THE RADIO SET MADE FROM PARTS SCROUNGED FROM JAPANESE AIRCRAFT ...
Photograph
Maker: McQuillan, Ernest Mervyn
DARLING HARBOUR, NSW. 1945-09-28. THE RADIO SET MADE FROM PARTS SCROUNGED FROM JAPANESE AIRCRAFT AT CHANGI AIR STRIP. IT WAS CONSTRUCTED BY VX29825 SAPPER P. J. MATHEWS, 2/10TH FIELD COMPANY, AND WAS ...122022
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DARLING HARBOUR, SYDNEY, NSW 1945-09-28. AT GREAT RISK AIF PERSONNEL STOLE EQUIPMENT FROM ...
Photograph
Maker: McQuillan, Ernest Mervyn
DARLING HARBOUR, SYDNEY, NSW 1945-09-28. AT GREAT RISK AIF PERSONNEL STOLE EQUIPMENT FROM JAPANESE PLANES ON CHANGI AIRSTRIP AND CONSTRUCTED A RADIO RECEIVING SET WHICH THEY HID IN A STOOL AND USED TO...122021
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Darwin, NT. 1945-09. Newly repatriated NX10922 Private E. Wetherburn of Roseville, NSW, looks at ...
Photograph
Darwin, NT. 1945-09. Newly repatriated NX10922 Private E. Wetherburn of Roseville, NSW, looks at Darwin from the blister of a RAAF Consolidated Catalina aircraft on arrival at Darwin from Singapore. H...NWA1031
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Darwin, NT. 1945-09-21. NX57549 Private (Pte) W. Bagley, with a friend, Pte Warner of the ...
Photograph
Maker: Department of Air
Darwin, NT. 1945-09-21. NX57549 Private (Pte) W. Bagley, with a friend, Pte Warner of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS), at the wharf after the arrival of the hospital ship Oranje. Pte Bagley...NWA0977
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Darwin, NT. 1945-09-21. SX8288 Private (Pte) R. A. Olds of Hilton, SA, talking with Voluntary Aid ...
Photograph
Maker: Department of Air
Darwin, NT. 1945-09-21. SX8288 Private (Pte) R. A. Olds of Hilton, SA, talking with Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) Anderson of Unley, SA, on board the hospital ship Oranje in Darwin Harbour. Pte Olds,...NWA0975
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Davis, Walter Charles (Private, b.1908 - d.1945))
Private Record
Maker: Davis, Walter Charles
Collection relating to NX40190 Private Walter Davis, 2/18 Battalion, 1941-1945. It comprises a message written by Davis and thrown overboard from the Queen Mary when it left Sydney for Singapore in Fe...PR03448
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Day, Stephen Victor Burt (Lieutenant, b.1918 - d.2005)
Private Record
Maker: Day, Stephen Victor Burt
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 227042 Lieutenant Stephen Victor Burt Day, Headquarters South-West Pacific Area, British Army, Netherlands East Indies, Borneo and England, 1942-...PR03493
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D3, Bo.36, Changi Prison
Art
Maker: Greig, Allister
Allister Greig was a South Australian-born commercial artist who served in the first AIF and was a civilian internee in Singapore from 1942 to 1945. He was an amateur magician and was caught by prison...ART26749
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Defence Medal : Private G A G Siebert, 2/18 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown Unknown
Defence Medal, impressed on edge with recipient's details.REL38873.002
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Defence Medal : Private R H J Warren, 2/18 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Defence Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL25359.003
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de Little, Alan Giblin (Lieutenant, b.1913 - d.2003)
Private Record
Maker: Australian Military Forces De Little, Alan Giblin Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of TX4314 Lieutenant Alan Giblin de Little, Audit Section Admin HQ, Malaya, 1941-45. Collection consists of service documents for Lieutenant de Litt...AWM2016.52.1
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Denning, Stanley Francis (Private)
Manuscript
Maker: Denning, Stanley Francis
Memoirs of service during Malayan campaign and as a prisoner of the Japanese, in particular as a member of "H" force at various locations including Hellfire Pass. Comments on food, work, treatment by ...MSS1542
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Dental centre, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
At the prisoner-of-war camp at Changi Goal. Dental treatment was affordable at the fall of Singapore and who took their equipment into captivity with them. The Centre is housed in a native-built attap...ART26467
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Desmond Henry Mulcahy, 2/19th Battalion, ex POW at Kobe, Japan, talks about his service in the Second World War and experience as a prisoner of war.
Sound
Maker: Mulcahy, Desmond Henry Mulcahy, Desmond Henry
Desmond Henry Mulcahy, 2/19th Battalion, ex POW at Kobe, Japan, talks about his service in the Second World War and experience as a prisoner of war.S01729
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Diary of Alexander Roland Campbell Johnstone, 1942-1943
Digitised Collection
Maker: Johnstone, Alexander Roland Campbell (Alex)
Diary relating to the Second World War service of NX20572 Corporal Alexander Roland Campbell Johnstone, 2/15th Field Regiment and Audit Office, Command Pay Staff of the AIF in Malay. The diary docum...AWM2019.22.189
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Diary of Arthur William Hence, May - September 1942
Digitised Collection
Maker: Hence, Arthur William
Diary relating to the Second World War service of NX70153 Captain Arthur William Hence, 2/18th Australian Infantry Battalion, May - September 1942. This file contains a handwritten diary and a nomina...AWM2019.22.88
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Diary of Austin Ellerman Yeats, 1942
Digitised Collection
Maker: Ellerman, Austin Yeats
Platoon Commander's diary relating to the Second World War service of VX50052 Lieutenant Austin Yeats Ellerman, 2/29 Battalion, Malaya, 1942. The diary includes an approximate company rolls for A Com...AWM2020.22.30
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Diary of Avon Reah Smith-Ryan, 1942-1945
Digitised Collection
Maker: Smith-Ryan, Avon Reah
Diary relating to the Second World War service of WX3453 Captain Avon Reah Smith-Ryan, 2/4 Australian Machine Gun Battalion. This collection consists of an unbound, unofficial war diary in which Smi...AWM2019.22.207
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Diary of Norman Scott, 1943-1944
Digitised Collection
Maker: Scott, Norman John
Diary relating to the Second World War service of NX54124 Corporal Norman John Scott, 2/10 Field Ambulance. This diary has entries dated between 23 April 1943 and 20 May 1944, and contains details of ...AWM2019.22.133
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Diary of Robert Russell Walker, 1941-1945
Digitised Collection
Maker: Walker, Robert Russell
Diary relating to the Second World War service of NX70509 Captain Robert Russell Walker, 2/26 Australian Infantry Battalion. In his diary, Walker records events that occurred December 1941 and Octob...AWM2019.22.196
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Diary of Ronald Alfred Harper, 1942-1943
Digitised Collection
Maker: Harper, Ronald Alfred
Diary relating to the Second World War service of NX56201 Private Ronald Alfred Harper 2/29th Australian Infantry Battalion. This diary was kept by Harper in a Commonwealth Military Forces wallet duri...AWM2019.22.171
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Diary of Roy Clifford Mudiman, 1941-1945
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 December 1941 and 7 February 1945 mentions: the invasion of Sing...AWM2019.22.182
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Diary relating to service of Hugh Rayson, 1945
Digitised Collection
Maker: Rayson, Hugh
Diary relating to the Second World War service of NX34706 Major Hugh Rayson MC, 2/10 Australian Field Ambulance. The diary covers the cessation of hostilities in Borneo around 29 August 1945 and conti...AWM2019.22.137
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Diary relating to service of Major Charles Patrick Tracey, 1944
Digitised Collection
Maker: Tracey, Charles Patrick
Diary relating to service of NX70508 Major Charles Patrick Tracey, 2/26 Battalion, Second World War. The diary covers the period between 1 January 1944 and 31 December 1944, covering Tracey’s time as ...AWM2019.22.142
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Diary relating to service of Major Charles Patrick Tracey, 1943
Digitised Collection
Maker: Tracey, Charles Patrick
Diary relating to service of NX70508 Major Charles Patrick Tracey, 2/26 Battalion, Second World War. The diary covers the period between 1 January 1943 and 21 December 1943, covering Tracey’s time as ...AWM2019.22.140
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Diary relating to service of Major Charles Patrick Tracey, 1942
Digitised Collection
Maker: Tracey, Charles Patrick
Diary relating to service of NX70508 Major Charles Patrick Tracey, 2/26 Battalion, Second World War. The diary covers the period between 1 January 1942 and 31 December 1942, and includes the fall of S...AWM2019.22.139
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Diary relating to the service of Major Charles Patrick Tracey, 1945
Digitised Collection
Maker: Tracey, Charles Patrick
Diary relating to service of NX70508 Major Charles Patrick Tracey, 2/26 Battalion, Second World War. The diary covers the period between 1 January 1945 and 8 October 1945, covering Tracey’s time as a ...AWM2019.22.143
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Digging bore hole latrines, Changi camp
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men using improvised auger to dig bore-hole latrines, a necessity in a camp that housed thousands of men.ART24493
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Donaldson, Ivan John (Private, b.1915 - d.1990)
Private Record
Maker: Donaldson, Ivan John
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX39253 Private Ivan John Donaldson, 85 Light Aid Detachment, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Malaya, and Korea, 1941-1945. Wallet ...PR04296
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Douglas, Kenneth John Edward (Sergeant, b.1912 - d.1958)
Private Record
Maker: Douglas, Kenneth John Edward
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX51080 Sergeant Kenneth John Edward Douglas, 2/19 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Singapore, Thailand and Austr...PR04936
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Drawing salt water for the camp
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
As little or no salt was issued to the POW's held by the Japanese, organised parties were allowed to collect salt water in which to cook their rations of rice. The drawing shows a party of men pouring...ART25068
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Duck yard, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
When the rice ration at Changi POW Camp was sufficient, a certain amount of swill enabled many men to keep poultry, (mostly ducks) and a motley assortment of pens sprang up everywhere, composed of wir...ART26508
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Durian tree, Changi camp
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
This painting depicts an old tree near the Changi camp gardens under which many of the prisoner-gardeners ate their midday rice. The lush tropical forest of the Malay Peninsula fascinated Griffin. As...ART24468
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Dutch interior, Changi
Art
Maker: Abbott, Harold
Soldiers from the Netherlands East Indies Army were captured by the Japanese on Java and later transferred to Singapore where they were imprisoned in Changi. Completed shortly after the liberation of ...ART23950
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Education centre, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
In the early days of their internment and before they were required by the Japanese to work, the majority of the men of the 8th Division who had been captured at the fall of Singapore, passed many of ...ART26486
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Egan, Jack Edgar George (Private, b.1915 - d.1942)
Private Record
Maker: Egan, Jack Edgar George
Collection relating to the Second World War service and internment of NX25651 Jack Edgar George Egan, 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion, Malaya, 1941-1942. The collection consists of a typescript c...AWM2016.42.1
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Electric rice grinder, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men from 8 Division Ammunition Sub-Park and left to right: Private W F Kelly, Private A J Cooper, Private L M Bover, Corporal J Warren. The inset figure is Private L J Slee who designed the grinder us...ART25089
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Ellerman, Austin Yeats (Captain, b.1912)
Private Record
Maker: Ellerman, Austin Yeats
Platoon Commander's diary compiled by Lieutenant Austin Y Ellerman containing nominal roll for A Company, 2/29 Battalion and accounts of two separate patrols against the Japanese in Northern Johore in...PR02080
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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 (Captain, b.1907 - d.1999)
Private Record
Maker: Commonwealth of Australia Elliott, Jack William Weir Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of WX4506 Captain Jack William Weir Elliott, Australian Army Postal Corps, Singapore and Australia, 1940-1950. Captain Elliott was in charge of esta...AWM2017.128.2
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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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Embroidered 'Australian Changi quilt': Female internees, Changi Prison
Heraldry
Maker: Aldworth, Edna Jessie Auger, Beatrice Maud 'Trixie' Austen-Hofer, Eunice Elizabeth Barnes, Betsy Florence Nea ‘Nea’ Bell, Mary Elizabeth Blackman, Elaine de Souza Blackman, Hazel Ivy Bloom, Freddy Bond, Elizabeth 'Betty' Boston, Joan Margaret Brown, Iris Dora Bruhn, Sheila Philomena Winifred Burgin, Valerie Roberts Burns, Margaret Burstall, Mary Louise Cogan, Geraldine Mary Corley, Constance Doris Haigh 'Doris' Cornelius, Mary Dorothy 'Dorothy' Early, Sheila Ennis, Marion Elizabeth 'Elizabeth' Fletcher, Lucy Francis, Edith May 'Kay' Good, Dorothy G E ‘Judy’ Gottlieb, Valentine Gladys 'Gladys' Gough, Elise Rose Griffith-Jones, Anne Laugharne Phillips Grist, Isobel Jeanne Harness, Caroline Annie Heath, Kathleen Margaret Hegarty, Bridget Hughes, Mary Campbell Crawford Chalmers Hunt, Ena Jenkins, Isobel Helen Jones, Eileen Jones, Nora Janet Kennard, Kathleen Getrude La Cloche, Alice Louise Lacey, Hilda Grace Latta, Helen Anne Logan, Diana Margaret MacKenzie, Sybil Kathleen Macdonald, Dorothy Mather, Dorothy May McCubbin, Jessie McIntosh-Whyte, Joan Mary McIntyre, Vera Amy Victoria McIvor, Judy McMorine, Martha Garrick Millard, Betsey Mitchell, P J Moir, Ellen Agnes Mulvany, Ethel Rogers Murphy, Edith Harle Hickie Nealson, J H Pape, Agnes Milroy Parfitt, Iris Gladys Joyce Rackham, Anne Reilly, Rodney Florence Russell-Davis, Freda Elaine Scott, Mary Pearl Shorthouse, Muriel Smalley, Betty I Smallwood, Margaret Sowerby, Olive Stanley-Cary, Joan Frances Lois Thomas, Mary Tompkins, Lilian Gladys 'Gladys' Uniacke, Elizabeth Mary Unknown internee Von Hagt, Ethne Von Hagt, Violet Walker, Barbara Watson, Alice May 'May' Watson, Marjory Webster, Marie Alma Whitehead, Irene Williams, Gladys Marion Williams, Sue Wills, Helen Redpath Logan de Moubray, Katherine Mary
Quilt made up of 66 embroidered squares, each 'signed' in embroidery with the maker's name. All the squares are edged with turkey red chain-stitch. The squares are bounded by a broad white cotton bord...REL/14235
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Embroidered 'Japanese Changi quilt': Female internees, Changi Prison
Heraldry
Maker: Aitken, Violet Pauline Austen-Hofer, Eunice Elizabeth Beck, Helen Bell, Mary Elizabeth Bloom, Freddy Bridges, Grace Broadbent, Maud Brown, Iris Dora Burns, Margaret Clark, Muriel Graham Cutler, Rona Clements De Jager, Toosje Dickinson, Contance Ethel ‘Pauline’ Dixon, Norah Edwards, Joyce Edwards, Mary Evans, A Francis, Edith May 'Kay' Greaves, Florence Gregory, Minnie Rosamund Hancock, Clarice Heath, Kathleen Margaret Hegarty, Bridget Henderson, Jean Hooper, Wantar N'nakon Hughes, Mary Campbell Crawford Chalmers Iris Jackson, Priscilla Hannah Jamieson, Alice Mary Elizabeth Lawtie Jones, Eileen Jones, Nora Janet King, Eveline Mary Kinnear, Gwendolyn Edith Allen Kitts, Rhoda Margaret Koek, Cynthia Kronin, Angela Lacey, Caroline Lindsay, Evelyn Gladys Loveridge, Edith Annie Martin, Looleen Anna Martin, Nellie Maunder McCubbin, Jessie McLeod, Ethel Cory Moir, Ellen Agnes Morier, M Mulvany, Ethel Rogers Murphy, Kathleen B L 'Pat' Palomar, Leonora Patterson, Violet May Hilda Pearson, Eileen Mary Rank, Minnie Louise Rattray, Emma Edith Lascelles Renton, Constance Ethel Russell-Davis, Freda Elaine Ruthven, Dora Lansdale Sadler, Eva Maud Scott, Mary Pearl Stafford, Nora Ethel Sullivan, Anne Muriel Tan, Ruth Kathleen Uniacke, Elizabeth Mary Unknown internee White, Helen Dorothy Wickett, Mary June Willies, Ada Wood, Florence
Handmade quilt constructed from 66 embroidered or appliquéd squares each ‘signed’ in embroidery with the maker(s) name. All the squares are edged with turkey red feather-stitch. The squares are bounde...RELAWM32526
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Embroidered map of Australia : Corporal E G P Sullivan, 2/18 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Sullivan, Edward Gordon Patrick (Pat)
Embroidered Commonwealth Bank cotton cash bag. One side is printed with the bank's details. The other is heavily embroidered with mercerised cotton embroidery thread in shades of red, pink, mauve, gre...REL/03670
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Embroidered skirt made by female internees in Changi Gaol, May 1942
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Short, fine white linen circular dance skirt with left side placket opening fastened by a single press stud and a waistband fastened by two metal hooks and eyes. Down the front are listed 19 numbers p...REL33930
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Embroidered souvenir signature cloth : Mrs A M Cuthbe, Changi Prison
Heraldry
Maker: Cuthbe, Augusta Mary
Rectangular, fine cream linen, souvenir cloth, machine hemmed on one edge and hand hemmed on the other three edges. The cloth is edged with cream cotton lace applied with fine hand whipped stitches. T...REL/08534
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Embroidered souvenir signature cloth : Mrs A M Cuthbe, Changi Prison
Heraldry
Maker: Cuthbe, Augusta Mary
Cream linen souvenir cloth, embroidered throughout in fine chainstitch and hand hemmed. The long sides are edged with hand applied cotton lace. The short sides have a decorative embroidered zigzag bor...REL/08533
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Embroidered tobacco pouch : Mrs A M Cuthbe, Changi Prison
Heraldry
Maker: Cuthbe, Augusta Mary
Khaki cotton folding tobacco pouch lined with cream coloured rubber. The inside bottom of the pouch is hand embroidered in black cotton chainstitch, with a scene of two women carring a broom and a ful...REL/08538
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Engraved tobacco tin : Sergeant W O Wald, 8th Division Signals, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Small aluminium tobacco tin with separate lid. Engraved on the four sides of the lid is, 'BURMA MALAYA THAILAND SINGAPORE'. The sides of the tin are also engraved with, 'W WALD NX58914 8 [illegible] ...REL39900
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Engraving tool from Changi : R C Shelton, 2/9 Field Ambulance
Heraldry
Maker: Shelton, R C
Hand carved tapered wooden handled tool, with simple round steel pin engraver mounted in the narrower end. The engraving pin has a bevelled cutting edge.REL25173.002
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Eric James Tremethick, 12 Recovery Section attached to 2/4th Army Field Workshop, Australian Army Services Corps, Prisoner of War (POW) on the Burma-Thai Railway, interviewed by Gillian Pearson about his service in the Second World War and experiences as a POW
Sound
Maker: Tremethick, Eric James Pearson, Gillian
Eric James Tremethick, 12 Recovery Section attached to 2/4th Army Field Workshop, Australian Army Services Corps, Prisoner of War (POW) on the Burma-Thai Railway, interviewed by Gillian Pearson about ...S01732
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Escape
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Drawing of man crouching near barbed wire entanglements. Waiting until the guard had passed on, an emaciated prisoner-of-war is ready to slip over, or under, a known spot in the wire entanglements.ART26464
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Examining for malaria, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Australian Army Medical Corps, Roberts Hospital; specimen examined for malaria, Pathology LaboratoryART26484
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Ex POWs waiting for transport
Art
Maker: Abbott, Harold
A group of ex POWs are waiting for Transport in Changi, Singapore. Changi was the main prisoner-of-war camp in Singapore where some 14,972 Australians captured at the fall of Singapore were imprison...ART22924
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Ex prisoners-of-war waiting to leave Changi
Art
Maker: Abbott, Harold
Australian troops who had been prisoners-of-war in the hands of the Japanese for three and a half years are shown patiently waiting for transport to take them from Changi prison camp, where they had b...ART24404
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Felling rubber trees, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Members of the Forestry Unit felling rubber trees for firewood. This unit was one of the first established by the prisoners upon their captivity. Wood was a necessity for cooking their rations and to ...ART26465
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Felsch, Maurice Harold (NX47238, Lieutenant, 2/20 Battalion)
Private Record
Maker: Felsch, Maurice Harold
Photocopied handwritten and typed memoirs (67 pages total), titled "From Sydney Through Hell to Sydney Remembering 50 years 1945-1995", by NX47238 Lieutenant M H Felsch of 2/20 Battalion. Memoirs cove...PR01391
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Fennell, Geoffrey William Pagden (Major, b.1899 - d.1977)
Private Record
Maker: Fennell, Geoffrey William Pagden
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 4047 Major Geoffrey William Pagden Fennell, 5 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, Malaya, 1941-1945. Wallet 1 of 2 - Consists of Volume 1 of transc...PR88/136
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2/9 Field Ambulance Unit
Manuscript
Maker: Flowers, William Alfred
"2/9th Field Ambulance Unit Association: A Recollection by Bill Flowers of his time with 2/9th Field Ambulance: 8th Division AIF And its subsequent Unit Association". This manuscript deals the service...MSS1709
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Filkins, Colin Joseph (Driver, b.1917 - d.2002)
Private Record
Maker: Filkins, Colin Joseph
Papers of NX27250 Driver Colin Joseph Filkins (2/10th Field Ambulance) relating to his captivity as a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese. They include: (i) POW lettercards to his family, two letter...PR01064
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Flag of the 2/40th Battalion, 8th Division, which was carried and concealed by TX3838 Band ...
Photograph
Maker: Davis
Flag of the 2/40th Battalion, 8th Division, which was carried and concealed by TX3838 Band Sergeant Major Robert William Martin of Tasmania whilst a prisoner-of-war in Japanese hands through Timor, Ja...130014
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Flattened celluloid doll in paper wrapper : Private W C Davis, 2/18 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Small celluloid kewpie-style doll with painted face and string-jointed arms and legs. Reverse is moulded with maker's name (Fore ??) and a '3' in a diamond. The doll is wrapped in a small paper parcel...REL34430
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FLEMINGTON SHOWGROUNDS, MELBOURNE 1945-10-11. A LARGE CROWD OF RELATIVES AND FRIENDS GREETED THE ...
Photograph
FLEMINGTON SHOWGROUNDS, MELBOURNE 1945-10-11. A LARGE CROWD OF RELATIVES AND FRIENDS GREETED THE CARLOADS OF AUSTRALIAN EX PRISONERS OF WAR AS THEY ARRIVED AT THE SHOWGROUNDS. VX43825 CORPORAL L. M. E...119663