Series 4 - Resistance papers, 1943-1956

Peck, John Desmond (Lieutenant, b.1922 - d.2002)

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Accession Number	AWM2021.22.37
Collection number	PR03098
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	Series
Item count	1
Object type	Papers, Newspaper cutting
Maker	British War Office Various
Place made	Australia, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom: England
Date made	1943 - 1956
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 VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine, Greece, Crete, Italy, Switzerland and England, 1939-c. 2000.

This collection contains 12 series

Series 4 of 12 - Contains 10 wallets containing papers and correspondence, written mainly in Italian and German, concerning the resistance movement in Italy and Lieutenant Peck's trial in 1945, at Vercelli, Italy.