Conflicts

• Second World War, 1939-1945

Events

Units

• Services Reconnaissance Department

Places

• Leongatha
• Paddington
• Sarawak

Related Objects

• Wallet 3 - Decoded signals May 1945, track reports, maps, medical outfits and lists of goods, stores and supplies
• Wallet 11 - Reports related to reconnaissance and patrolling of Trusan River area, events regarding armistice and recommendations for awards for members of Semut I
• Wallet 14a - Reports, decoded signals and correspondence between Major Harrison, the Australian 9th Division AIF, the British Borneo Civil Affairs Unit and members of the Semut 1 party
• Wallet 19 - Correspondence post war administration, hand over following the Japanese surrender, Semut I operatives requesting to stay and assist in the post war clean up
• Wallet 22 - Correspondence and photographs related to training, commemoration of crew of 200 Flight B24 Liberator missing following the successful drop of Semut I reconnaissance party, and an account of Operation Semut III by party leader Maj William Sochon
• lists of goods, stores and supplies
• Correspondence Semut 1 request to stay on and Japanese surrender
• Correspondence Semut 1 party mainly in the Trusan area
• Correspondence demobilisation and hand over to civil administration including payment and rewards to local soldier
• Correspondence Lt Alfred Blondeel, Lt Robert Pinkerton and Cpl Allen Wheelhouse