Folder 2 of 2 - Eyewitness account of the executions of Corporal Breavington and Private Gale, c.1942

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Accession Number RCDIG0001290
Collection number PR04859
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type Folder
Item count 1
Object type Papers
Physical description 2 Image/s captured
Maker Unknown
Date made c.1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Source credit to This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.
Description

Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX621 Private Pierre Michael Walton, 8 Division Provost Company, including the period he was a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese, c. 1942.

Wallet 1 of 1 contains two folders.

Folder 2 of 2 contains a single folio eyewitness account of prisoner executions, handwritten on Japanese note paper, and recounts the escape, recapture and subsequent death by firing squad of Australian prisoners-of-war, VX63100 Corporal Rodney Breavington and VX62289 Private Victor Lawrence Gale on 2 September 1942 at Changi. Several Australian officers witnessed the execution including NX70416 Lieutenant Colonel [Frederick] Gallagher [Galleghan], Officer Commanding the 2nd AIF at Changi. The author of the account is unknown.