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Burden, Allen Raymond (Corporal, b.1918 - d.2004)
Private Record
Maker: Burden, Allen Raymond Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX57633 Corporal Allen Raymond Burden, 2/3 Pioneer Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Middle East and Australia; c1940-1943. Wallet 1 ...PR03707
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Condliffe, James Robert (Private, b.1918 - d.1959)
Private Record
Maker: Condliffe, James Robert
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX41124 Private James Robert Condliffe, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Middle East, Greece, Germ...PR05633
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Cunningham, Edward Vincent (Corporal, b.1917 - d.2003)
Private Record
Maker: Cunningham, Edward Vincent
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX3717 Corporal Edward Vincent Cunningham, 2/1 Machine Gun Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, United Kingdom, Middle East an...PR03738
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Folder 2 of 3 - Aerial photographs, correspondence, notes and research material for Captive in Crete, c. 1950-1967
Digitised Collection
Maker: Peck, John Desmond Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.89
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Folder 1 of 2 - Correspondence with researchers, 1986 – 1999
Digitised Collection
Maker: Peck, John Desmond Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.101
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Folder 1 of 3 - Handwritten draft and chapter outlines for Captive in Crete, c. 1950
Digitised Collection
Maker: Peck, John Desmond
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.88
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Folder 1 of 3 – Letters and correspondence from members of the Italian and Greek resistance to Lieutenant John Desmond Peck, 1946-1953
Digitised Collection
Maker: Peck, John Desmond Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.85
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Folder 2 of 3 - Letters from former Allied prisoners of war to Lieutenant John Desmond Peck, 1944-1988
Digitised Collection
Maker: Peck, John Desmond Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.86
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Folder 1 of 2 - Letters from Lieutenant John Desmond Peck to Mr and Mrs Peck, 1939-1946
Digitised Collection
Maker: Peck, John Desmond Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.79
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Folder 3 of 3 - Newspaper articles relating to Lieutenant John Desmond Peck’s experiences as an escaped prisoner of war on Crete, c. 1990
Digitised Collection
Maker: Peck, John Desmond Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.90
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Folder 3 of 3 - Newspaper clippings relating to Lieutenant John Desmond Peck, c.1941-c.1967
Digitised Collection
Maker: Argus Newspaper Daily Telegraph Mirror Peck, John Desmond Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.87
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Folder 1 of 2 - Official correspondence to Lieutenant John Desmond Peck and Mr and Mrs Peck; Service papers of Lieutenant Peck, 1939-1967
Digitised Collection
Maker: Australian Army Australian Military Forces ISSUING BODY: EX-PRISONERS OF WAR AND RELATIVES' ASSN PUBLISHER ADDRESS: 1 ELIZABETH ST, MELBOURNE V Peck, John Desmond Returned Services League Australia The Australian News
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.81
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Gibb, Norman Stanley (VX5842, Private, 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion)
Manuscript
Maker: Gibb, Norman Stanley
Manuscript entitled "World War 11 Memories of Normal Stanley Gibb Service No. VX5842 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion". The manuscript details the experiences of Private Gibb through the Greece and Crete c...MSS2051
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Hall, John Eric Mounsey (Major, b.1909 - d.1982)
Private Record
Maker: Hall, John Eric Mounsey
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX7030 Major John Eric Mounsey Hall, 2/8 Australian Infantry Battalion, 1941-42. Wallet 1 of 1 - consists of 2 folders. Folder 1 contains a 67 ...AWM2021.256.1
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McLaren, Leonard Christopher Patrick (Gunner, b.1914 - d.1963)
Private Record
Maker: McLaren, Leonard Christopher Patrick
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX10532 Gunner Leonard Christopher Patrick McLaren, 2/2nd Field Regiment, prisoner of war in Crete, 1941. McLaren, a 25-year-old traveler and dri...AWM2018.852.1
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Peck, John Desmond (Lieutenant, b.1922 - d.2002)
Private Record
Maker: Peck, John Desmond
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...PR03098
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Portrait of VX7023 Private (Pte) Ronald Kenneth Barrie who served with 2/8 Battalion in the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Portrait of VX7023 Private (Pte) Ronald Kenneth Barrie who served with 2/8 Battalion in the Middle East during 1940 -1941. In April 1941 he was sent to Greece with his Battalion, which was soon evacua...P05577.001
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Series 2 - Memoir: Captive in Crete, 1950-1990
Digitised Collection
Maker: Peck, John Desmond Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.35
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Series 12 - Miscellaneous published magazines and books collected by Lieutenant John Desmond Peck, 1944-1991
Digitised Collection
Maker: Mussolini, Benito Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.45
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Series 3 - Official Reports, 1944 - c.1994
Digitised Collection
Maker: Australian Army Peck, John Desmond Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.36
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Series 9 - Papers associated with Roger Absalom, Bill Bunbury and Bill Rudd, c.1978 - c.1999
Digitised Collection
Maker: Peck, John Desmond Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.42
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Series 8 - Papers concerning George Psychoundakis, 1990-1991
Digitised Collection
Maker: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Peck, John Desmond Psychoundakis, George Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.41
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Series 1 - Personal Papers of Lieutenant John Desmond Peck, 1939-1988
Digitised Collection
Maker: Argus Newspaper Australian Army Australian Military Forces British War Office Daily Telegraph Mirror ISSUING BODY: EX-PRISONERS OF WAR AND RELATIVES' ASSN PUBLISHER ADDRESS: 1 ELIZABETH ST, MELBOURNE V Returned Services League Australia The Australian News Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.34
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Series 11 - Transcripts of interview with Lieutenant John Desmond Peck and the Imperial War Museum, 2000
Digitised Collection
Maker: Peck, John Desmond Trustees of the Imperial War Museum (IWM)
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.44
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Souvenir pennant : HMAS Sydney
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Triangular black felt souvenir pennant. Screen printed in yellow, white and brown with 'H.M.A.S SYDNEY' and the ship's badge showing a white background with a brown anchor, star at the top and battlem...REL36711
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Studio portrait of NX4172 Private, (Pte) (later Corporal), Arthur Tanner, 2/1Battalion, of Manly, ...
Photograph
Maker: Paramount Photo
Studio portrait of NX4172 Private, (Pte) (later Corporal), Arthur Tanner, 2/1Battalion, of Manly, NSW. Pte Tanner enlisted at North Sydney, NSW on 3 November 1939. He served in the Middle East, Greece...P08899.001
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Wallet 1 of 1 - Diary of George Ireland Woodgate, January - August 1941
Digitised Collection
Maker: Woodgate, George Ireland
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 19590 Petty Officer George Ireland Woodgate, HMAS Perth, Royal Australian Navy, At sea, 1941. Wallet 1 of 1 - Contains a handwritten diary kept ...AWM2020.22.302
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Wallet 1 of 3 - Handwritten draft, chapter outlines, aerial photographs, correspondence, notes and research material for Captive in Crete; Newspaper articles relating to Lieutenant Peck’s experiences as an escaped prisoner of war on Crete, c. 1950 - c. 1990
Digitised Collection
Maker: Peck, John Desmond Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.51
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Wallet 1 of 5 - Letters from Lieutenant John Desmond Peck, the Australian Red Cross and Various to Mr and Mrs Peck, 1939-1946
Digitised Collection
Maker: Australian Military Forces Records Office Australian Red Cross Society Peck, John Desmond Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.46
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Wallet 5 of 5 - Letters to Lieutenant John Desmond Peck from members of the Italian and Greek resistance and former Allied prisoners of war, 1944-1988; Newspaper clippings relating to Lieutenant Peck, c. 1941- c. 1967
Digitised Collection
Maker: Argus Newspaper Daily Telegraph Mirror Peck, John Desmond
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.50
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Wallet 1 of 2 - Lieutenant John Desmond Peck’s report to the Australian Army and two copies of his official Prisoner of War report,1944
Digitised Collection
Maker: Australian Army Peck, John Desmond
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.54
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Wallet 1 of 2 - Miscellaneous published magazines and books collected by Lieutenant John Desmond Peck, 1944-1985
Digitised Collection
Maker: Mussolini, Benito Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.77
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Wallet 2 of 5 – Official and private correspondence to Lieutenant John Desmond Peck and Mr and Mrs Peck, and Service papers of Lieutenant Peck, 1939-1967
Digitised Collection
Maker: Aiken, Conrad Potter Australian Army Australian Military Forces ISSUING BODY: EX-PRISONERS OF WAR AND RELATIVES' ASSN PUBLISHER ADDRESS: 1 ELIZABETH ST, MELBOURNE V Peck, John Desmond Returned Services League Australia The Australian News Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestin...AWM2021.22.47
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Wallet 2 of 3 - Two copies of final draft of Captive in Crete, c. 1990
Digitised Collection
Maker: Peck, John Desmond
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...AWM2021.22.52
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Wallet 1 of 1 - Unattributed account titled "Battle of Matapan" by a gunner serving in HMAS Stuart and a transcribed German propaganda leaflet relating to the Siege of Tobruk, 1941
Digitised Collection
Maker: Unknown
Collection relating to the Second World War service of an unknown gunner serving in HMAS Stuart, the Battle of Cape Matapan and the Siege of Tobruk, Mediterranean Sea, 1941. Wallet 1 of 1 - Contains ...AWM2020.22.276