Rogers, Leonard Bert (Lieutenant, b.1916)

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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
Description

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.