Collection relating to Norman Frank Wild and Ellen 'Nell' Wild

"Harold (deceased) Jock (deceased) Arthur (deceased)"[?an assumption inscribed by Nell]. The soldier are all men of Headquarters 8th Division and are posed in front of a truck, Jock (crouched at front) and Harold and Arthur holding a sign with a tiger's head inscribed "Tiger Tribe Club, Headquarters, Another Tiger". Harold (left) is possibly NX32679 Harold Frank Gahan and Arthur (right) is most likely NX58218 Driver Arthur George Grant (who was discharged in July 1946) One of eight photographs relating to the service of Nell Wild, National Emergency Service and her husband NX54905 Corporal (Cpl) Norman Frank (Jock) Wild, HQ AIF Malaya, of Manly NSW, who died as a POW at Thai Camp on 31 January 1944. He was a member of A Force, the first group of POWs sent from Changi to Burma, initially working on the aerodrome at Tavoy before going to work on the Burma-Thai Railway. In January 1944, along with most of the POWs who had worked on the railway, he was sent to a camp at Tamarkan to recuperate, but contracted dysentery, was hospitalised and died. Jock, nicknamed for his red hair, was a local identity in Manly, being a popular former Rugby Union player in the Reserves and Firsts between 1936 to 1938 and President and coach of Manly Junior Rugby Union at the time of his enlistment.