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"A hospital ward in Singapore showing members of the 8th Division released from the Changi ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
"A hospital ward in Singapore showing members of the 8th Division released from the Changi Prisoner-of War camp at Singapore. All were suffering from malnutrition. Nearest Camera T. Chiplin of Cardiff...019199
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. An Australian prisoner of war (POW) SX11414 Private Russell St Aubyn ...
Photograph
Burma or Thailand. 1945. An Australian prisoner of war (POW) SX11414 Private Russell St Aubyn Teague, 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion displaying the effects of wet beri-beri caused by vitamin deficiency in ...P01433.023
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. An emaciated Dutch prisoner of war (POW), Sergeant J P Fortuin showing ...
Photograph
Burma or Thailand. 1945. An emaciated Dutch prisoner of war (POW), Sergeant J P Fortuin showing the effects of general debility post dysentery and exhaustion from beri beri typical of the condition of...P01433.021
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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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Diary of Jack Lusby Burns, October 1944-January 1945
Digitised Collection
Maker: Burns, Jack Lusby
Diary relating to the Second World War Service of VX39159 Lieutenant Jack Lusby Burns, 1st Independent Company. This diary is the fifth of six diaries kept by Burns while he was a prisoner of war in ...AWM2019.22.31
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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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Enright, Michael Francis (Civilian, b.1898 - d.1944)
Private Record
Maker: Enright, Michael Francis
Collection relating to the Second World War experience of Mr Michael Francis Enright, civilian prisoner of war, Netherlands East Indies, 1942-1944. Wallet 1 of 1 – Consists of one diary of Mr Michael...AWM2019.436.1
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Feakes, George James (Civilian POW, b.1893 - d.1960)
Private Record
Maker: Feakes, George James Feakes, George James
Collection relating to the Second World War experience of George James Feakes, civilian POW, Singapore and Dutch East Indies, 1942-1946. Feakes was an Australian engineer based in Singapore, whose job...PR05245
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Four unidentified Australian soldiers, prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese suffering from ...
Photograph
Four unidentified Australian soldiers, prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese suffering from severe malnutrition and beri-beri. These men were deemed fit for continued work on the Burma-Thailand rail...P02569.193
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Gaden, Edward William (Captain, b.1917 - d.1976)
Private Record
Maker: Commonwealth of Australia Gaden, Edward William Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX12543 Captain Edward William Gaden, 2/20th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australia, Singapore, Malaya, Thailand, Burma, India, 1940-1949. Wal...AWM2016.40.3
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Hamers, Louisa Sophia (b.? - d.1945)
Private Record
Maker: Hamers, Louisa Sophia
Collection relating to the Second World War experience of Louisa Sophia Hamers, a Dutch national interned by Japanese in the Dutch East Indies, 1943-1945. Collection consists of a black marble-effec...AWM2016.431.1
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Hard labour, Kriegsgefangenenlazarette
Art
Of this drawing, the artist later recalled "The prisoner of war hospital at Kokkinia had been an old orphanage and the 'operating theatre' was adapted from rooms on the first floor. The constant task ...ART29575
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Javanese slaves in native compound sick ward
Art
Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts the emaciated natives of Java, shipped by the Japanese from that island during their occupation of Java, to Borneo. They were a tragic and pitiful spectacle when the Australian troops landed a...ART23229
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John Francis (Jack) Dowd as a private, 8th Ammunition Submarine Park, 1941-1946, and Gladys Perrott, interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton.
Sound
Maker: Dowd, John Francis (Jack) Perrott, Gladys
SX11660 Private (Pte) John Francis (Jack) Dowd and Gladys Perrott interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937-1947" oral history project. The interview covers topi...AWM2018.572.17
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Letters and papers of Charles Laurie Price, 1942-1945
Digitised Collection
Maker: Price, Charles Laurie
Letters and papers relating to the Second World War service of NX55503 Staff Sergeant Charles Laurie Price, 10 Australian General Hospital. Price wrote letters to his wife Marion between May 1942 an...AWM2019.22.165
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McCabe, Bernard Henry (Private, b.1903 - d.1950)
Private Record
Maker: McCabe, Bernard Henry
Collection relating to the Second World War service of WX7858 Private Bernard Henry McCabe, 2/6 Field Company, Second Australian Imperial Force, Malaya and Singapore, 1942-1944. Wallet 1 of 1 – Consi...PR04276
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Outdoor portrait of NX36604 Private (Pte) Colin Cornwall Jones. A school teacher from Lockhart, ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Outdoor portrait of NX36604 Private (Pte) Colin Cornwall Jones. A school teacher from Lockhart, NSW, Pte Jones enlisted with 2/30 Battalion on 27 June 1940. On 25 March 1941 he transferred to Headquar...P10714.001
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Portrait of Private Peter Geoffrey Sheppard
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of VX50592 Private Peter Geoffrey Sheppard, 2/21 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second World War. The unit colour patch of the 2/21st Btn has been painted within a decorative shield in the to...AWM2019.200.1
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Prosser, Francis (Private, b.1907 - d.?)
Private Record
Maker: Commonwealth of Australia Prosser, Francis
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX37385 Private Francis Prosser, 2/29th Australian Infantry Battalion, Malaya, Singapore, Australia, 1941-1946. Collection consists of: - One ...AWM2016.651.1
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Rayson, Hugh (Major, b.1891 - d.1961)
Private Record
Maker: Rayson, Hugh
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX34706 Major Hugh Rayson, 2/10 Field Ambulance, Singapore, Malaya, and Australia, 1942-1945. Collection consists of one original memoir in two...PR00720