| Places | |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | PR91/073 |
| Collection type | Private Record |
| Record type | Collection |
| Measurement | 3 wallets: 5cm |
| Object type | Papers |
| Maker |
Bostock, William Dowling Commonwealth of Australia Mickle, Grangie Stuart News Corp Australia Pfeiffer, Francis William Unknown |
| Place made | Australia: Queensland, Brisbane, Australia: Queensland, North Queensland, Townsville |
| Date made | 1940-1945 |
| Access | Open |
| Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM315 419/120/015 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copying Provisions | Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required. |
Yeowart, Robert Alfred (Squadron Leader, b.1915 - d.1980)
Description
Papers relating to the Second World War service of 270647 Squadron Leader Robert Alfred Yeowart, No 6 Squadron RAAF, Australia and New Guinea, 1940-1945.
Collection contains three wallets relating to Squadron Leader Yeowart's secret reconnaissance mission to Truk via Rabaul in February 1942, in which he discovered enemy force in Toll Harbour and the potential threat to Rabaul Harbour.
Wallet 1 of 3 contains a typed inverview with Yeowart about the Truk mission in Brisbane, August 1943. This wallet also contains personnel records i.e. officer's certificate of service, returned from active service certificate, statement of Special Forces deferred pay, war gratuity entitlement paperwork as well as personal letters to Yeowart from relatives of men who went missing (i.e. VX20713 Staff Sergeant William Stuart Patterson and 403831 Flying Officer John Francis Pfeiffer).
Wallet 2 of 3 contains a flying log book that Squadron Leader Yeowart used from 1941-1945, and three RAAF pay books. This wallet also contains a newspaper article entitled, "Resurrection of the Tin Goose: From Margaret Wilson in New Guinea" that was published in The Australian on 22 March 1975, an RAAF pamphlet called "Glenn Martin Turret Tips", an RAAF recruitment booklet, and a copy of a pilot's checklist.
Wallet 3 of 3 contains 17 newspaper clippings including a series of five articles by Air Vice-Marshall William Dowling Bostock regarding the state of the RAAF during the war in the Pacific. Bostock's articles were published in The Courier-Mail in June 1946. This wallet also includes an untranslated propaganda leaflet or "security pass" dispersed by the United Nations to members of the surrendering Japanese forces.