Australian War Memorial Digitisation project – Seeking copyright holders

The Australian War Memorial is currently undertaking a four-year digitisation project, running from 2018 to 2022. The project aims to digitise collection items at risk of deterioration, including paper records, film, audio, and images in many media. This process will help preserve the original items, and enable the collection to be more broadly available to researchers in future.

As part of this project, the Memorial is seeking copyright permission to publish the collections listed below.  If are you are a copyright holder, a relation or a descendant of the person named, please contact Digitised Collections via email on Digitised.Collections@awm.gov.au

Alfred Jones, 21 November 1910 – 17 September 1964

Alfred Jones enlisted in the Australian Army on 22 May 1941 at Paddington, NSW, and shortly thereafter embarked for Singapore with the 2/30 Australian Infantry Battalion. After the surrender of the British forces, NX17200 Lance Corporal Jones became a prisoner-of-war and was interned at Changi Camp.

Before the war, Alfred worked as a labourer and lived in Mullumbimby with his wife, Alice Ann Jones, and their son, Alfred Jones Junior. Alfred had emigrated from Manchester, England, possibly after the First World War.

Alfred returned to Mullumbimby after the war, where he lived with his family until his death at age 54 on 17 September 1964.

Alfred Jones is buried at Mullumbimby Cemetery.

If you are related to Alfred Jones, or in contact with any of any of the people named here or Mr Jones’s descendants, please contact Digitised Collections via email on Digitised.Collections@awm.gov.au

Collection Number: PR04859

Stanley James Lugton, 16 July 1918 – 1 November 1977

Stanley James Lugton enlisted in the Australian Army at his hometown of Wagga Wagga, NSW, on 20 August 1940. NX68236 Private Lugton embarked for Singapore with the 2/30 Australian Infantry Battalion, and was later taken prisoner by the Japanese and interned at Changi Camp after the surrender of the British forces.

After the war, Stanley returned to Wagga Wagga, where he met and married his sweetheart Shirley Isabel Dorman on 4 May 1946. They had three children: Wayne Lugton; Kevin John Lugton; and Sharon Anne Lugton.

Stanley James Lugton passed away on 1 November 1977.

If you are related to Stanley James Lugton, or in contact with any of these people or Mr Lugton’s descendants, please contact Digitised Collections via email on Digitised.Collections@awm.gov.au

Collection Number: PR04859

Ichiji Inoue

Ichiji Inoue was an employee of the Hitachi Shipbuilding Yard who supervised Australian prisoners of war who were sent to work at Hitachi’s plant at the harbour in Osaka, Japan.

After the war, Walton received a two-page typed letter, dated 1 August 1951, from Ichiji Inoue, thanking him and the other Australian soldiers for offering food and other provisions to his family after the surrender of Japan.  

If you are related to Ichiji Inoue, or in contact with Mr Inoue’s descendants, please contact Digitised Collections via email on Digitised.Collections@awm.gov.au

Collection Number: PR04859