Begley , Colin Neil (b.1932)

Place Asia: China, Canton
Accession Number PR00841
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement 1cm (4 items)
Object type Papers
Date made 1942-1944
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM371 96/0266
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Description

Papers of Colin Neil Begley associated with his internment in Yang Chow CAC ('Civil Assembly Centre') Camp C, China between 1942 and 1945. They include an identity card, nominal lists of internees in the camp, list of camp committee election candidates, and 1944 report cards from the camp's Boys' School for Begley and his brother. Begley's parents were Australian Salvation Army officers working as missionaries with refugees from the Sino-Japanese war, the family being interned in Yang Chow in March 1942.

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