Seeking copyright holders
The Memorial’s Research Centre Digitised Collections team digitises archival collections at risk of deterioration. This process preserves the original items and enables the selected collections to be accessed online into future.
The Memorial is seeking permission from the copyright holders to publish the collections listed below on the Memorial’s website. If you are a copyright holder, a relation, or a descendant of persons named, please contact the Memorial via email: Digitised.Collections@awm.gov.au
Daniel Borley, June 1906–October 1957
Daniel Borely was born on 29 June 1906 at Murren Murren, Western Australia, to Rose Ellen Rosa Borley (née Goldfinch) and Daniel Borley.
Before enlisting in the Second Australian Imperial Force in 1941, Daniel worked as a concrete labourer in Townsville, Queensland. During the Second World War he served as QX24703 Private Daniel Borley in the 2/20th Australian Infantry Battalion. Soon after the fall of Singapore in February 1942, he was reported as a prisoner of war. He was later recovered from a prisoner of war camp in October 1945 and returned to Australia the following month.
In 1936 he married Grace Mooney (1907–1979), from then known as Grace Borley. Before the war their marriage produced one child (name and details unknown) but the marriage dissolved soon after Daniel returned from war. He was later remarried to Mavis “May” Hobman (1952–1990), from then known as Mavis Borley. Their marriage produced two daughters, Faye Borley (1952–2005) and Sue Borley (dates unknown).
Daniel died in October 1957 in Canberra at the age of 51.
A poem written by Daniel Borley appears within the private collection of Rosslyn Langford Perceval. If you are a copyright holder, a relation, or a descendant of Daniel Borley, please contact the Memorial via email on Digitised.Collections@awm.gov.au.
Collection number: PR03074
Sergeant W. Guthrie, 1999–2000
The Australian War Memorial holds a Private Records collection that contains a postcard produced by the International Force East Timor (INTERFET), as part of Operation Stabilise East Timor 1999/2000. The postcard front displays a photograph of soldiers interacting with locals of East Timor taken by Sergeant W. Guthrie.
If you are related to Sergeant W. Guthrie or know Mr. Guthrie’s descendants, please contact us via email on Digitised.Collections@awm.gov.au
Collection number: PR01523
Francis Louis Huston, September 1918–May 1992
Francis “Frank” Louis Huston was born on 4 September 1918 at Box Hill, Victoria, to Irene Florence Everes Huston (née Spry) and Louis Archibald Bell Huston.
Before enlisting in the Second Australian Imperial Force in 1940, Francis worked as a brush maker. During the Second World War he served as VX32694 Driver Francis Louis Huston in the 8 Australian Division Petrol Company. When Singapore fell in 1942 he was taken as a prisoner of war and moved to various working camps. In October 1945 he returned to Australia from Vietnam; he discharged in December 1945.
He married Lesley Patricia Edwards in 1946, from then known as Lesley Patricia Huston. Francis died in May 1992 in Macleod, Victoria, at the age of 73. Lesley died in January 1997 in Melbourne, at the age of 75.
Parody song lyrics written by Francis Louis Huston appear within the private collection of Jack Wilfred Turner. They were sung by Turner while performing in musicals within the prisoner of war camps of Singapore, Burma, Thailand and French Indo-China.
If you are a copyright holder, a relation, or a descendant of Francis Louis Huston, please contact the Memorial via email on Digitised.Collections@awm.gov.au.
Collection number: PR00651