Place | Asia: Burma Thailand Railway |
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Accession Number | AWM2019.22.100 |
Collection number | 3DRL/2691 |
Collection type | Digitised Collection |
Record type | File |
Item count | 1 |
Object type | Diary |
Physical description | 49 Image/s captured |
Maker |
Varley, Arthur Leslie |
Place made | Burma |
Date made | 1943 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Source credit to | This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government. |
Diary of Arthur Leslie Varley, 2 September 1943 - 26 March 1944
Diary relating to the Second World War service of NX35005 Brigadier Arthur Leslie Varley, 22nd Australian Infantry Brigade. This diary, referenced as diary 4, covers the period from 2 September 1943 - 26 March 1944, and details conditions, rations, illness, executions, work and movements.
This file includes one of six diaries secretly written by Varley when he commanded "A" Force, a group of prisoners of war including Australians, Americans, British and Dutch, working from Thanbyuzayat towards Three Pagodas Pass on the Burma portion of the Burma-Thailand road and railway in 1942-43. This diary was buried at Singapore for safe-keeping before the embarkation of prisoner to Japan on board Rakuyo Maru and were recovered by the AIF after the war.