| Accession Number | P11245.001 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Colour - Print hand-coloured black & white |
| Maker |
Unknown |
| Date made | 1945 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Outdoor portrait of NX27147 Corporal (Cpl) James Charles Parsons and his wife, Jane, reunited ...
Description
Outdoor portrait of NX27147 Corporal (Cpl) James Charles Parsons and his wife, Jane, reunited after Cpl Parsons spent four years as a prisoner of war (POW). A butcher from Katoomba, NSW, he enlisted with the rank of Private (Pte) with the 2/30 Battalion on 24 June 1940 and married Jane Agnes Sefton on 20 December 1940. Pte Parsons embarked for Singapore on 29 July 1941 aboard HMT Johan Van Odenbarnevelt. In January 1942 he was promoted to Acting Corporal and served as a medic for his battalion. With the fall of Singapore to the Japanese on 14 February 1942, Cpl Parsons became a POW and was interred in several POW camps, including Changi gaol and Mount Pleasant. He was a member of F Force, which endured forced labour on the Thai-Burma railway. Cpl Parsons was repatriated to Australia at the end of the war and arrived in Sydney on 13 October 1945 to be reunited with his family.