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Accession Number | PR00700 |
Collection type | Private Record |
Record type | Collection |
Measurement | 2 wallet: 5 cms |
Object type | Newspaper cutting, Papers |
Maker |
Rogers, Leonard Bert |
Date made | 1944-1949 |
Access | Open |
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM371 96/0559 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Rogers, Leonard Bert (Lieutenant, b.1916)
File of material relating to Lieutenant Leonard Bert Rogers work as an Army Intelligence Officer at the Tatura Prisoner of War and Internment Camps and with the Commonwealth Department of Immigration between 1944 and 1949. The main part of the collection comprises of documents relating to investigations by Rogers into the whereabouts of, and capture of escaped German and Italian Prisoners of War and Internees. Also included is a copy of evidence given by Rogers at an inquiry into alleged activities of the Nazi Party within the Tatura camps, a hand drawn Party membership card, a set of newspaper clippings relating to the Allied liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps in 1945, a set of maps of New Guniea, two Allied Air Force Intelligence Summaries in the form of reconnaissance photos and a copy of a plan of No.1 Internment Camp Tatura. Drawn by an internee, H G Duffner, the original of this plan is part of the Memorial's collection of plans and charts.