Price, Charles Laurie (Staff Sergeant, b.1913 - d.1957)

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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
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.