Place | Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Ambon, Pulau, Ambon |
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Accession Number | S04321 |
Collection type | Sound |
Measurement | 19 min 41 sec |
Object type | To be confirmed |
Physical description | micro cassette; Dictaphone MC60; mono |
Maker |
Ruxton, Bruce Carlyle Billett, Janet Roberts |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Albert Park |
Date made | 30 August 2002 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Permission of copyright holder required for any use and/or reproduction. |
Bruce Carlyle Ruxton as president of the RSL Club of Victoria speaks about the assistance he provided to the Gull Force Association during the mid 1960s.
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Bruce Ruxton as president of the RSL Club of Victoria speaks about the assistance he provided to the Gull Force Association during the mid 1960s. The Gull Force Association was giving medical and other aid to the residents of Ambon (in recognition of their assistance to Australian POWs during their incarceration there.) Ruxton relates that during excavation of the old POW camp kitchen at Ambon, typed documents were discovered and later destroyed by Brigadier Athol Brown, Commonwealth War Graves Director. Ruxton was told that the documents contained details of misdemeanours of soldiers during the period they were prisoners of war on Ambon, from 1942 - 1945.
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Bruce Carlyle Ruxton as president of the RSL Club of Victoria speaks about the assistance he provided to the Gull Force Association during the mid 1960s.