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Colour patch sweetheart brooch : Miss D J Harvey
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Sweetheart brooch featuring an enamelled unit colour patch for the Australian Base and Lines of Communication Units, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. This includes the 2/10 Ordnance Workshop. The colou...REL39881
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1. Copelin, Thomas Francis (Frank) (Gunner, b.1914) 2. Copelin Harold Victor (Gunner, d.1945)
Private Record
Maker: Unknown
Collection relating to the Second World War service of QX9699 Gunner Thomas Francis (Frank) Copelin, 2/10 Australian Field Regiment, 1940-1946, and QX9698 Gunner Harold Victor Copelin, 2/10 Australian...PR91/036
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Costello, John (Gunner, b.1913 - d.1945)
Private Record
Maker: Costello, John
Collection relating to the Second World War service of QX21581 Gunner John Costello, 2/10 Field Regiment. Collections consists of four letters (2 are photocopies) written home to Costello's mother an...PR00641
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Dyer, Wally (Private, b.? - d.1945)
Private Record
Maker: Dyer, Wally
Letter to parents mentioning impending action against the Japanese in Malaya, home news, and the sinking of the HMAS Sydney. Private Dyer was later taken POW and died at Sandakan in 1945.PR00711
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Enamelled mug : Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Army issue green enamelled mug, with a black enamelled handle and rim. There is black enamelled, stencilled lettering on one side '2/18 BN OFFS' MESS'.RELAWM28349
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Field pocket watch : Captain Lionel Colin Matthews, 8 Division Signals
Heraldry
Maker: Elgin National Watch Company
Defence issued nickel plated open faced field pocket watch in the Elgin National Watch Company pattern, although the movement lacks markings or serials. Features a black dial with gold numerals, leaf ...REL43145
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Folding fan : Corporal J C Clarke, 8 Division Command Pay Office
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wooden folding hand fan with 21 leaves. Each leaf is identically decorated with a series of pierced patterns, which differ from the endguard pattern. A small piece is broken from the top corner of one...REL39520
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Folkard, Stanley Barden (Driver, d.1945)
Private Record
Maker: Folkard, Stanley Barden
Photocopies of papers of and relating to NX67404 Driver S.B. (Stan) Folkard (AASC, 8 Division) from his enlistment in 1940 through his captivity at Singapore and service as a prisoner of war to his de...PR00896
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Fraser, James Fitzgerald (Lieutenant, b.1916 - d.1999)
Private Record
Maker: Fraser, James Fitzgerald
Collection relating to the Second World War service of QX11231 Lieutenant James Fitzgerald Fraser, 2/26th Australian Infantry Battalion, Borneo, 1942-1945. Collection consists of a notebook that was...PR04385
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Funk, Paddy H (Civilian, Sandakan Underground, Borneo d.1981)
Private Record
Maker: Funk, Paddy H
PHOTOCOPY OF FUNK'S STATEMENT RELATING HIS CAPTURE, TORTURE AND INTERROGATION BY THE KEMPEI TAI (JAPANESE MILITARY POLICE) IN 1943, THE DEATH OF CAPT L C MATTHEWS MC, THE SANDAKAN/RANAU DEATH MARCH AN...3DRL/7408
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George Cross: Captain Lionel Colin Matthews, 8 Division Signals
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
George Cross. Engraved reverse with recipient's details.OL00660.001
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Glen Innes and District badge: Sandakan POW camp
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Enamelled badge in red, white and blue with 'FROM GLEN INNES AND DISTRICT' and the town's coat of arms. The badge is damaged, with the pin missing and some of the enamel chipped away.REL/17257.058
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Group portrait 2/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group portrait of members of the 2/3 Motor Ambulance Convoy (MAC) at their camp at Liverpool. Identified, left to right: back row: NX69187 Driver (Dvr) Albert Farnham Jones of Woollahra, NSW (later t...P05770.001
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Hand carved wooden owl : Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Hand carved wooded owl, with folded wings and open eyes, perched on a rectangular base. The pattern of feathers is finely carved and detailed.RELAWM28346
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Improvised dixie: Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Improvised dixie made from standard issue brown enamelled steel Australian army water bottle. One side has been partially cut out so that the bottle forms a dixie with a base and four sides, with the ...RELAWM28351.001
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Improvised spoon: Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Improvised lightweight stainless steel spoon, possibly made from an electric fan blade. The bowl of the spoon has been cut out and then beaten to form the bowl shape. It has been attached to a cut out...RELAWM28351.002
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Informal portrait of NX52439 Private (Pte) Claude Anthony Gilligan, 2/20 Battalion, of Coonamble, ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Informal portrait of NX52439 Private (Pte) Claude Anthony Gilligan, 2/20 Battalion, of Coonamble, NSW. He was a butcher prior to enlisting in June 1940. Pte Gilligan arrived with his unit in Singapor...P09076.001
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'In the foreground are pay books, wallets, and discs laid out to dry. Rear are Australian troops ...
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Frank Albert Charles
'In the foreground are pay books, wallets, and discs laid out to dry. Rear are Australian troops and Japanese clearing grass away.' 'Scenes at the POW Camp, Sandakan. POW Contact and Enquiry officers ...120443
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Jackson, H W S (Lieutenant Colonel, b.1914)
Private Record
Maker: Jackson, Henry Walter Samuel
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN JACKSON AND CHRISTOPHER LAGAN CONCERNING ERNESTO LAGAN. TRANSCRIPT DESCRIBES LAGAN'S ASSISTANCE TO AUSTRALIAN POW AT SANDAKAN IN NORTH BORNEO IN 1942-1943, HIS ARREST, IMPRISONM...PR86/144
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'Japanese troops digging in graves.' 'One area in No. 1 Compound of Sandakan POW camp was found ...
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Frank Albert Charles
'Japanese troops digging in graves.' 'One area in No. 1 Compound of Sandakan POW camp was found to contain approximately 300 bodies believed to be of those men left in the camp after the two death mar...120449