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Accession Number | PR03336 |
Collection type | Private Record |
Record type | Collection |
Measurement | 1 wallet: 1 cm |
Object type | Letter, Papers, Notebook |
Maker |
Price, Charles Laurie |
Place made | Singapore |
Date made | 1942-1945 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Price, Charles Laurie (Staff Sergeant, b.1913 - d.1957)
Description
Collection relating to NX55503 Staff Sergeant Charles Price, 2/10 Australian General Hospital, 1942-1945. It comprises papers documenting his experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war in Changi. It includes a series of letters written to his wife Marion and a note with information on patients' and soldiers' fates during captivity and recipes. Other papers include Price's paybook, telegrams to his wife and reports on the Malayan campaign.