Accession Number | PR01912 |
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Collection type | Private Record |
Record type | Collection |
Measurement | 1 wallet: 3 cm |
Object type | Letter, Newspaper cutting, Papers, Photograph, Postcard |
Maker |
Nichols, George Frederick Arnold |
Place made | Australia, Singapore: Changi |
Date made | 1939-2001 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copying Provisions | Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required. |
Nichols, George Frederick Arnold (Lieutenant, b.1913 - d.2001)
Description
Letters, service-related documents, POW postcards and related personal records of NX40490 Lieutenant George Frederick Arnold Nichols, who served with 2/18 Battalion and subsequently as a prisoner of war in Changi and on the Burma Thailand Railway. Post-war items relate to his newspaper work with the 'Inverell Times', community and charity work in Northern NSW, a major unit association re-union in 1995 and Nichols' funeral service.