Studio portrait of NX2466 Corporal (Cpl) Malcolm Stuart Don, 2/1st Battalion, of Willoughby, NSW. ...

Studio portrait of NX2466 Corporal (Cpl) Malcolm Stuart Don, 2/1st Battalion, of Willoughby, NSW. Cpl Don, a former North Sydney Rugby Union footballer, amateur boxer and wrestler, worked as an accountant prior to enlisting on 3 November 1939. In 1941 he was captured in Crete whilst fighting against the German land and airborne invasion. He was interned as a Prisoner of War (no. 10237) in Stalag XIIIc in Hammelburg am Main, Germany, where he conducted boxing and wrestling classes for fellow inmates. Cpl Don died of meningitis on 12 April 1943, aged 31. He was given a funeral with full military honours, attended by 4000 Allied troops interned in the camp. Following his death, Cpl Don's parents received letters of consolation from the Padre, Doctor, and Man-of-confidence at the camp, and a note from a soldier friend who described his burial at Hohenfels Cemetery: 'Cpl Don, a sportsman and a gentleman, was buried beside a Welshman and another Australian. A cross of beechwood fashioned by Australians, stands at his head.'

• A group of Australian servicemen, accompanied by a local woman and boy, enjoying a drink in a ...
• Portrait of NX2466 Corporal (Cpl) Malcolm Stuart Don, 2/1st Battalion, interned as a Prisoner of ...
• Group portrait of Australian Prisoners of War at Stalag XIIIc in Hammelburg am Main, Germany. ...
• Allied Prisoners of War, interned at Stalag XIIIc in Hammelburg am Main, Germany, attending the ...