Wallet 1 of 1 - Notebook belonging to Clement Douglas Coridas, 1942-1945

Place Asia: Singapore
Accession Number AWM2019.22.12
Collection number PR05986
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 1
Object type Notebook
Physical description 63 Image/s captured
Maker Coridas, Clement Douglas
Place made Singapore
Date made 1942-1945
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

Notebook relating to the Second World War service of VX46480 Clement Douglas Coridas, 2/29th Australian Infantry Battalion. This notebook complied using scrap pieces of paper, was made by Coridas during his time as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese. This notebook was used between 1942 and 1945 and contains: a roll of name (possibly of those in his company of the 2/29th Australian Infantry Battalion) with marks next to those who died; drafts of letters to his mother; pages of money tallies and a hand written calendar with the dates marked off.