The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX30417 Signalman (Sig) Robert Charles Chaney who served with 8 Division Signals. Comprises a small notebook kept by Sig Chaney whilst a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese. The notebook has been handmade by Sig Chaney using his Malaya Command Military Driving Licence as the cover, and contains his handwritten poems and thoughts as a POW. Two of the pages include a letter written by Sig Chaney to his wife Alyce. Sig Chaney died of malnutrition in Japan on 23 December 1943. The notebook was brought back to Australia by NX71812 Sig Frederick de Renzie Duncan, a fellow POW in Naoetsu Camp in Japan.
Letters, personal papers, and photographs of Trooper George Eric Armstrong who served in 2/20 Battalion and was a Japanese Prisoner of War during the Second World War. Tpr Armstrong was also in posses
NOTEBOOK, REMINISCENCES AND SOUVENIRS OF CAPTIVITY IN CHANGI AND LATER JAPAN. ALSO INCLUDES A RANGE OF POEMS AND SONGS TRANSCRIBED FROM FELLOW POW'S
Collection relating to the service of Signalman Robert Cecil Lent, Malaya Command Signals, British Army, 1945, and later of 7 Division Signals, Australian Army. Collection consists of a booklet conta
Collection relating to NX40864 Warrant Officer Class 2 Jack Finely, 2/18 Infantry Battalion, Second World War. Collection comprises service documents, including two of Finlay's paybooks; three photo
Collection relating to 2377 Private (Pte) Alfred Charles Hill, 2nd Pioneer Battalion. Comprises a notebook containing a handwritten transcription of letters and postcards written by Pte Hill, to his f
Eating good food for a change, in the mess of the British hospital ship Tjitjalengka, are these released prisoners of war (POWs), mostly from Naoetsu prison of war (POW) camp in Japan. Standing rear l
