Salmon, Alfred William (Lieutenant, b.1907 - d.1979)

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Kokoda Trail
Accession Number PR00297
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement Extent: 8 cm; Wallet/s: 5; Oversize: 1
Object type Papers
Maker Salmon, Alfred William
Vernon, Geoffrey Hampden
Place made Australia, New Guinea
Date made 1940-1972
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM371 93/0461
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copying Provisions Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction.
Description

Collection relating to the Second World Service of VX117107 Lieutenant Alfred William Salmon, 39th Infantry Battalion, New Guinea and Australia, 1940-1972.
Wallet 1 of 5 contains a faux-leather wallet which houses a notebook in which Salmon recorded names and information of his fellow servicemen as well as writing poetry, his army pay book, and a photograph of Salmon and his wife Edna "Gwen" Salmon. The wallet also contains nine letters to his wife written between 1942 and 1945, and describe searching for Japanese planes which had been shot down, the sinking of the MV Macdhui, being wounded and his time spent in hospital, and the fighting at Wewak. The wallet also contains a newspaper clipping of the obituary for Gerard Wardell, developer of the Owen Gun.

Wallet 2 of 5 contains a Japanese language publication titled "Nanke-Shetei", containing the war diary of the Japanese 114th Regiment in New Guinea.

Wallet 3 of 5 contains an Engllish translation of "Nanke-Shetei".

Wallet 4 of 5 contains a page of poetry titled "Bomana Dawn" by Stuart Hawthorne, an issue of the current affairs bulletin of the Australia-Japan Society dated December 1972, an invitation to Mr and Mrs Salmon from the Australian Ambassador to Japan, photocopies of newspaper clippings, a map of Port Moresby and the surrounding area, an address given at the 39th Battalion Association Pilgrimage to Kakoda in 1967 and two photographs of the event.

Wallet 5 of 5 contains a manuscript by Dr Geoffrey Vernon titled "A War Diary. The Owen Stanley Campaign: July - November 1942", and a letter accompanying it from John D Wilkinson gifting it to the 39th Battalion Association.

The collection also contains 1 oversized map.