Johnstone, Brian William Wallace (Captain, b.1920 - d.1988)

Place Europe: Balkans
Accession Number PR00355
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement Extent: 5.5 cm; Wallet/s: 1
Object type Scrapbook, Certificate, Document, Letter, Map, Serial, Souvenir
Maker Johnstone, Brian William Wallace
Place made Australia, France: Paris, Greece, Switzerland: Geneva, United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London, United States of America, Yugoslavia
Date made 1940-1949
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM371 94/0067
Conflict Period 1940-1949
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Copying Provisions Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required.
Description

Collection relating to the United Nations Committee of Investigation in the Balkans service of Captain Brian William Wallace Johnstone, Australian Army, Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, 1947.

Wallet 1 of 1 consists of a bound scrapbook containing documents, photographs and ephemera of Johnstone's service as a member of the Australian delegation to the United Nations Committee of Investigation in the Balkans from January to May 1947. The scrapbook includes tickets, photographs, programmes and correspondence related to Johnstone's voyage from New York to Europe, as well as tickets, correspondence, photographs, clippings and paper currency collected during his journey from London to Paris, Toulon and then Greece. Thereafter, the scrapbook features photographs, news clippings, maps, correspondence, reports and instructions related to the Committee of Investigation, its delegates and Johnstone's work in Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Geneva, and contains references to Major General John Chapman, the Australian Military Representative in Washington DC and a member of the Committee of Investigation, to whom Johnstone was serving as aide-de-camp. Certificates, documents and photographs related to Johnstone's service in the Second World War and in the Interim Army until 1949 have also been inserted into the front of the scrapbook.