Seeking copyright holders
The Memorial’s Research Centre Digitised Collections team digitises archival collections at risk of deterioration. This process helps to preserve the original items and enables the selected collections to be accessed online in future.
The Memorial is seeking permission from the copyright holders to publish the collections listed below. If you are a copyright holder, a relation, or a descendant of the persons named below, please contact the Memorial via email: Digitised.Collections@awm.gov.au
Eric Lloyd Hutchinson, 10 June 1883 – 23 September 1971
Eric Lloyd Hutchinson was born on 10 June 1883 at Narrandera, New South Wales, to Sophie Louisa Hutchinson née Chase and William Hutchinson.
During the Second World War, he served as N278502 Major Eric Lloyd Hutchinson with the 6th Field Ambulance, AIF from 1939 to 1948.
Eric Lloyd Hutchinson married Frances Burton Greig, from then known as Frances Burton Hutchinson (1889-1956). The marriage produced a daughter, Joyce Dorothy Hutchinson (1917–1997) and a son, Arthur Paul Hutchinson (1922–1924).
Eric Lloyd Hutchinson died on 23 September 1971 in Cowra, New South Wales.
The Australian War Memorial holds a diary, a draft and a typed copy of a 'Report on Lockhart Mission epidemic, 1943', and biographical notes written by Eric Lloyd Hutchinson.
If you are a copyright holder, a relation, or a descendant of Eric Lloyd Hutchinson, please contact the Memorial via email on Digitised.Collections@awm.gov.au.
Collection number: PR86/391
Mario Bakerini-Booth, 1902 – 1977
Mario Bakerini-Booth was born in 1902 in Egypt to Italian parents.
He was a composer, a musician and a conductor.
During the Second World War, Mario Bakerini-Booth fled Europe with his wife, Dorothy Muriel née Fairhurst, also known as Dorothy “Dolly” Baker (1910–1995), for Asia. In 1942, Mario and Dorothy Bakerini-Booth were interned in Santo Tomás Internment Camp in Manila. During his internment, he composed and performed music for internees. After the camp was liberated in February 1945, Mario (choosing to go by “Morris”) and Dorothy Bakerini-Booth came to Australia.
Mario Bakerini-Booth died in 1977.
The Australian War Memorial holds sheet music scores composed by Mario Bakerini-Booth.
If you are a copyright holder, a relation, or a descendant of Mario Bakerini-Booth, please contact the Memorial via email on Digitised.Collections@awm.gov.au.
Collection number: PR03257
Stephen Lawrence Hannam, 4 July 1917 – 7 May 2003
Stephen Lawrence Hannam was born on 4 July 1917 in Rockhampton, Queensland, to Gertrude Emily Absell (1875/6-1964) and Willoughby Arthur Hannam (1872-1938).
During the Second World War he served as QX6472 Captain SL Hannam in Johore Military Forces and 2/26 Battalion. After the fall of Singapore in 1942, he was taken prisoner by Japan and initially posted to Changi prisoner-of-war camp, and then the Tonchan South Camp in Thailand where he worked on the Thai–Burma railway. He was returned to Singapore in 1944 and remained there until the relief of Singapore in September 1945.
On 27 November 1945 he married Isobel May Hannam née Short (1920–2019). Their marriage produced a daughter, Hilary Vujica née Hannam (1952–2001) and two sons, David Hannam and Christopher Hannam.
Stephen Lawrence Hannam died on 7 May 2003 in Townsville, Queensland.
The Australian War Memorial holds a memoir donated and written by Stephen Hannam, which covers the period 1941–45.
If you are a copyright holder, a relation, or a descendant of Stephen Lawrence Hannam, please contact the Memorial via email on Digitised.Collections@awm.gov.au.
Collection number: PR85/117