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AIF in action in Malaya
Film
Contains scenes from official Department of Information film F01171. Commentary, Charles Lawrence Cinesound Review. Singapore, bomb damage, fire fighting, bren gun carrier, Indian troops in trucks, 25...F00831
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AIF return from Malaya
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
AIF return from Malaya after capitulation of Japan. A general coverage of troops relaxing and playing sport on board troopship. Some shots of a Bofors gun and crew and troops disembarking from troopsh...F01172
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AMBON ISLAND. 1945-09-22. ONE OF THE MESS HUTS IN THE JAPANESE TAN TOEY POW CAMP WHICH HOUSED 8 ...
Photograph
AMBON ISLAND. 1945-09-22. ONE OF THE MESS HUTS IN THE JAPANESE TAN TOEY POW CAMP WHICH HOUSED 8 DIVISION PERSONNEL.118256
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American forces liberate South Korea
Film
Maker: Driver, Roy
Australian troops captured at Singapore in 1942 and liberated in Korea by Allied forces after Japanese capitulation. Film commences with aerial shots of Korean landscape, moves to a panning shot of f...F01244
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Arnold Fraser (Frazer) Caddy as a lance sergeant, 8th Division and POW, 1941-1946, interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton.
Sound
Maker: Caddy, Arnold Fraser
VX60320 Lance Sergeant Arnold Fraser (Frazer) Caddy, 8th Division, interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937–1947" oral history project. The interview touches on topics s...AWM2018.572.11
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Australian POW at 10 Cycle Camp, Batavia
Film
Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Scenes of Australian Army, Navy and Air Force personnel at 10 Cycle Camp. All these POWs were flown back to Singapore. Sapper Newman, 8 Australian Division Engineers, showing his well patched slouch h...F07342
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Australian recovered prisoners of war interviewed by Pilot Officer Jock McPherson, RAAF Combat Broadcast Team, at Changi, Singapore following the surrender of Japan in 1945
Sound
Disc 1 Side 1: Pilot Officer Jock McPherson, as a member of the RAAF Combat Broadcast Team, records from a RAAF Catalina aircraft on its approach to Kelang airport, Singapore. The plane is met by four...S00015
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Brown, Robert RAE (Sapper, HQ Rae, 8th Div AIF and POW)
Private Record
Maker: Brown, Robert
POW POSTCARDS - LITTLE INFORMATIONPR85/157
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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 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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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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Dandie, Alex
Private Record
Prisoner of war nominal roll book; typed copy of Dandie's diary; letters to Dandie's parents; renditions regarding broadcast from Radio Saigon; manuscript 'J Force'; censored envelope containing lette...PR01193
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Davis, Cyril B (Private, 8th Aust Div Sigs and POW, Japan)
Private Record
Maker: Davis, Cyril Bowen (Dusty)
TELEGRAM THROUGH INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS RE PLACE OF DAVIS' INCARCERATION. THREE POW POSTCARDS TO WIFE.3DRL/2212
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Death railway
Film
Maker: Bilcock and Copping Melbourne Pty Ltd
Relates the story of the building by prisoners of the Japanese of the Burma-Siam Railway during the 1939-1945 war. Uses interviews with survivors, contemporary colour footage of the area and B&W archi...F10252
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8 Division POW on board HMT Highland Brigade
Film
Maker: McLeish, N
Scenes taken on board HMT Highland Brigade of men of 8 Division and civilians who had been prisoners of the Japanese for some three and a half years, during the trip from Singapore to Fremantle, WA. T...F07340
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Dorse, Gordon (Corporal)
Private Record
Maker: Various
Collection relating to the service of NX46737 Corporal Gordon Dorse, 2/3 Reserve Motor Transport Company, Malaya, 1941. Collection includes letters to a friend Vera Cook, 194; photographs of Dorse in...PR03228
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Dr Redmond Sheedy as a Sergeant, 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Second World War, interviewed by Dr John Mitchell
Sound
Maker: Sheedy, Redmond Stuart Parnell Mitchell, John
SX5435 Sergeant Redmond Stuart Parnell Sheedy, 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, relates his experiences as a prisoner of war (POW) in H Force. This is one of 21 interviews conducted by Dr John Mitchell, r...S01506
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First Australians leaving Singapore
Film
Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
Released Australian prisoners of war at Kallang airfield, Singapore waiting for aircraft to depart for Australia. Japanese soldiers pushing disabled transport through the streets of Singapore; other J...F01683
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Hannah, Robert Buchanan
Private Record
Maker: Hannah, Robert Buchanan
Collection relating to VX37681 Sergeant (Sgt) Robert Buchanan Hannah who served with 2/22 Infantry Battalion, 8th Division, which formed part of Lark Force. Comprises one original handwritten letter a...PR04517
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HMS Formidable and HMS Speaker
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Australian soldiers arrived at South Harbour, Manila, by trucks from the 8th Australian Prisoner of War Reception Camp and were taken out to the Royal Navy aircraft carriers HMS Formidable and HMS Spe...F01626
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Holman, Robert (Private, b.1919 - d.?)
Private Record
Maker: Holman, Robert
Illustrated memoir compiled by NX44861 Private Robert Holman, documenting his experience as a Japanese prisoner of war on the Burma Thailand Railway and later at the coal mines in Omuta, Japan.PR04040
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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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Jones, Charles Edward Francis (Private, b.1901 - d.1972)
Private Record
Maker: Jones, Charles Edward Francis 'Frank'
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX51703 Private Charles Edward Francis 'Frank' Jones, 2/19 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Singapore,...PR02096
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KUCHING, SARAWAK. 1945-09-12. MAJ-GEN G.F. WOOTTEN, GOC, 9 DIVISION, SPEAKING TO COOKS AS THEY ...
Photograph
KUCHING, SARAWAK. 1945-09-12. MAJ-GEN G.F. WOOTTEN, GOC, 9 DIVISION, SPEAKING TO COOKS AS THEY PREPARE LUNCH IN THE 8 DIVISION OFFICERS MESS IN THE KUCHING POW & INTERNMENT CAMP.118408
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LABUAN ISLAND, BORNEO. 1945-10-03. 8TH DIVISION EX PRISONERS OF WAR AND LONG SERVICE TROOPS ...
Photograph
Maker: Rainsford, Ross John
LABUAN ISLAND, BORNEO. 1945-10-03. 8TH DIVISION EX PRISONERS OF WAR AND LONG SERVICE TROOPS EMBARKING AT LABUAN EN ROUTE TO MOROTAI FOR ON MOVEMENT TO AUSTRALIA. 8TH DIVISION EX PRISONERS OF WAR GROUP...118827
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Lennon, John Leslie (Sergeant, b.1902 - d.1970)
Private Record
Maker: Lennon, John Leslie
Papers of NX32826 Sergeant John Leslie Lennon, General Base Depot, 8th Division AIF, relating to his service in the Second World War and especially the fall of Singapore and his time in Changi Prisone...PR00875
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Lieutenant Colonel Cranston McEachern
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Cranston McEachern (QX6176), Commanding 2/24th Anti-Tank Regiment, RAA at Muar River. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26444
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Lieutenant Colonel Ian O'Donnell
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Ian John O'Donnell (VX43938), OBE, Commanding 2/10 Field Company, RAE. Taken prisoner by the Japanese.ART26433
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Lieutenant Colonel John (Glyn) White
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel John George Glyn White (VX21434), OBE, Deputy Assistant Director Medical Services, Administrative Headquarters. Taken a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese.ART26438
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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Webster
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Marriott William Webster (TX2107), MC, ED, Commanding 2nd Australian Convalescent Depot, Australian Army Medical Service. Taken a prisoner-of-war by the...ART26439
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Lieutenant Colonel William Jeater
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel William David Jeater (NX34992), commanding officer of 2/20th Battalion. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese.ART26432
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[Macksville welcomes home returned soldiers]
Film
Maker: Joseph, Louis
Film opens showing a street march moving towards camera. View moving towards camera showing a horseman wearing a slouch hat leading the welcome home march. Next is the Macksville brass band and flag c...F04942
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Major Alexander Thompson
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Alexander Norman Thompson (NX34974), Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, AIF Headquarters, 8th Division. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26446
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Malaya 8th Division story (Anzac TV Series)
Film
Maker: Artransa Park Television Pty Ltd
Malaya 8th Division story (Anzac TV Series)F10034-19
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Mary Fitzhardinge interviewed by Peter Burness about her family's participation in the Second World War
Sound
Maker: Fitzhardinge, Mary Burness, Peter J Australian War Memorial Brassell, Bill
Mrs Fitzhardinge's interview includes discussion of: Her early life; the enlistment of her husband and two brothers in the Army; seeing husband Jim off from Sydney Harbour as he was bound for the Midd...S01602
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MELBOURNE, VIC. 1945-09-30. MEMBERS OF 8TH DIVISION, EX-PRISONERS OF WAR OF THE JAPANESE, ARRIVED ...
Photograph
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1945-09-30. MEMBERS OF 8TH DIVISION, EX-PRISONERS OF WAR OF THE JAPANESE, ARRIVED FROM SINGAPORE ABOARD THE HOSPITAL SHIP ORANJE. FROM PRINCESS PIER, PORT MELBOURNE, THEY WERE TRANSPOR...116866
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Mervyn Brown as a Sergeant, 2/13th Australian General Hospital, Second World War, interviewed by Dr John Mitchell
Sound
Maker: Brown, Mervin F Mitchell, John
VX61477 Sergeant Mervyn Frederick Brown, 2/13th Australian General Hospital (AGH), relates his experiences as a prisoner of war (POW) in K Force. This is one of 21 interviews conducted by Dr John Mitc...S01505
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Murchie, John Langford, (Private, b.1919 - d.?)
Private Record
Maker: Murchie, John Langford 'Jack'
Illustrated memoir, "Been There! Done That! My War Experiences", written by VX60772 Private John 'Jack' Langford Murchie, who served with 22 Brigade, 8 Division and became Prisoner of War after the fa...PR03155
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Nixon, Rae Norman (Lieutenant)
Private Record
Maker: Nixon, Rae Norman
Material collected by Lieutenant Rae Norman Nixon relating to his time as a prisoner of war in Burma and Thailand, Second World War. Photocopies of sketches drawn by Nixon from 1942-1945, including 'K...PR00412.004
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NSW Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX65469 Private Colin Stewart Johnston, 8th ...
Photograph
NSW Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX65469 Private Colin Stewart Johnston, 8th Division Supply Column, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)...P02467.106
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NX71862 Leslie Gordon Gaffney interviewed by Caroline Gaden about his service with 8th Division Headquarters in Malaya and Singapore and his experiences as a prisoner of war of the Japanese, 1941-45
Sound
Maker: Gaffney, Leslie Gordon
Reasons for enlisting; pre embarkation training; jungle training and operations in Malaya; reaction to the capitulation in Singapore; march to Changi prisoner of war camp; train journey to Bampong; ex...S01738
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POW leaving Changi prison, visit of Major General Dempsey & Changi area, funeral of three POW
Film
Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Members of 2/26 Australian Infantry Battalion, 2/12 Field Company and 8 Australian Division Signals shown leaving Changi prison by truck for Singapore wharf and home. Funeral of three POWs who died in...F07339
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POW reception camp, Manila
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Major-General Cecil Arthur Gallagan, CMG, DSO, VD, CRA 8th Australian Division (administering the command of the 8th Australian Division and AIF Malaya), being interviewed by press correspondents aft...F01672
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POW's in Thailand
Film
Maker: Unknown
Shot of Lieutenant Colonel C A McEachern senior officer in Thailand. Lieutenant Colonel C G W Anderson, MC, VC, recipient of the only Australian Victoria Cross in the Malayan campaign. Lieutenant Colo...F01539
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POW's Korea
Film
Maker: Driver, Roy
Australian prisoners of war who were captured by the Japanese at Singapore, and since September 1942, spent their time in prison camps in Korea. The prisoners were released on 29 August 1945 when the ...F01351
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Preparation and dropping of medical and other supplies to POW camp at Kuching, North West Borneo
Film
Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
Air Maintenance Platoon, Australian Army Service Corps, at Labuan airstrip. These containers, along with other supplies are dropped from a Douglas aircraft as it flies over the prisoner of war camp at...F07314
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Repatriation of 8th Division POW (Fox Movietone News Vol. 16 No. 42)
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
Hospital ship Oranje arrives at Darwin from Singapore with ex-POWs of the 8th Division. They are welcomed home by men and women serving at Darwin.F00384
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Rice grinding, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts two unidentified men using improvised rice grinder. An old native stone mill made to work more easliy with a lever, Changi, Singapore, 1943.ART26522
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Robinson, Arthur Cyril (Staff Sgt b.1897 - d.1968)
Private Record
Maker: Robinson, Arthur Cyril
Diary contains brief entries of Malayan campaign, but is mostly poetry relating to his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese. Themes include furphies, food, officers, fall of Singapore, Barrack Squ...PR00472
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Sandakan survivors ex NBN Television production Sandakan the untold story. Interviews with Mick Lofty Hodges, Keith Botterill and Nelson Short.
Film
Maker: NBN Television
Includes interviews with Don Wall, Mick "Lofty" Hodges (ex Z Special Unit), Keith Botterill, Sandakan survivior and Nelson Short, Sandakan survivor. There is also a brief interview with former Prime M...F04636
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Scenes in Singapore, Changi Prison and 2/14 Australian General Hospital
Film
Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Japanese soldiers being doubled through the streets of Singapore under the supervision of 8 Division ex POWs. Scenes in 2/14 Australian General Hospital showing some of the 24 sisters (Australian Army...F07338
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Sergeant J Russell
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Sergeant John Lewis Russell, QX1899, 2/26 Australian Infantry Battalion, 8th Australian Division. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. Born in Mitchell...ART26449
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Sir Adrian Herbert Curlewis CVO CBE as a captain General Staff Officer Grade 3 Headquarters 8th Division, Malaya and Singapore, and a prisoner of the Japanese in the Second World War, interviewed by Dr Hank Nelson.
Sound
Maker: Curlewis, Adrian Herbert Nelson, Hank Australian War Memorial
Sir Adrian Curlewis speaks of his experiences in Malaya and Singapore and as a prisoner of the Japanese during the Second World War. Sir Adrian was a barrister-at-law before he enlisted. As President...S00035
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Smith, Charles James (Private, b.1915 - d.1943)
Private Record
Maker: Smith, Charles James
Collection relating to NX2573 Private (Pte) Charles James Smith who served with 2/30 Infantry Battalion, HQ Company, Transport Platoon, before the fall of Singapore in 1942 when he became a prisoner o...PR01984
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Stahle, Leon Rossister Dalgleish (Colonel, CBE, Dados 8th Div, AIF b.1892 - d.1987)
Private Record
Maker: Stahle, Leon Rossister Dalgleish
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX24581 Colonel Leon Rossister Dalgleish Stahle, 1942. Wallet 1 of 1 consists of various bound papers including an address by Stahle to members ...3DRL/7870
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Studio portrait of VX62592 Private (Pte) Francis James Pring of Ballarat, Victoria (right) and ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Studio portrait of VX62592 Private (Pte) Francis James Pring of Ballarat, Victoria (right) and unknown Navy serviceman. Pte Pring enlisted at Royal Park, Victoria on 27 August 1941 and served with Det...P10709.001
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8th Aust Division (Australian Army)
Private Record
Maker: Various
Collection of manuscript material originally written and collected by Australian servicemen, with the idea of being used in a book publication after the war. The stories cover the period 1942 to 1945 ...3DRL/0369
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Walton, Pierre Michael (Private, b.1912 - d.1981)
Private Record
Maker: Walton, Pierre Michael
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX621 Private Pierre Michael Walton, 8 Division Provost Company, including the period he was a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese, 1942-1945. ...PR04859
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Warrant Officer 1 Arthur Purdon
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Warrant Officer Class 1 Arthur Henry Mason Purdon DCM (NX67447), Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant, 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese a...ART26445
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Weston, Alan Wentworth (Sergeant, b.1904 - d.1987)
Private Record
Maker: Weston, Alan Wentworth
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX57941 Sergeant Alan Wentworth Weston, 8th Division Signals, Borneo and Singapore, 1945. Collection consists of: 1 x series of hand-written n...PR01541
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Woodgate, W H L (Signalman)
Private Record
Maker: Woodgate, Henry Wilfred Leo
Diaries of Signalman W H L Woodgate spanning November 1941 to October 1945. Entries describe the boat trip to Singapore (with extended stopover in Darwin), shelling by the Japanese and experiences a...PR00606
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Woven cellophane belt: Driver Mark Hill Store, 2/3 Reserve Motor Transport Company, 8th Division
Heraldry
Maker: Store, Mark Hill
Woven belt made from folded sections of clear cellophane originally used to wrap packets of cigarettes. Cut out paper numerals and letters have been inserted into individual sections of the cellophane...REL45060