The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
CANBERRA, ACT. 1957-05-03. ONE OF THE FOUR MAPS DRAWN ON PALE GREEN FLIMSY PAPER AND A LETTER WRITTEN IN PENCIL ON RULED PAPER. THESE DOCUMENTS ARE CONNECTED WITH THE ESCAPE OF EIGHT AUSTRALIANS FROM A JAPANESE PRISONER OF WAR CAMP AT SANDAKAN, BORNEO IN 1943-05 TO 1943-06. THE ESCAPEES ARRIVED AT TAWI-TAWI AND WERE MET BY SAIRI USANIN, WHO WROTE THE LETTER SHOWN HERE. THE ESCAPEES LATER SERVED WITH THE GUERRILLA COMPONENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FORCES IN THE PHILIPPINES, WHERE ONE OF THEIR NUMBER, DRIVER R.W. BUTLER, WAS KILLED IN ACTION. THESE DOCUMENTS WERE PART OF DRIVER BUTLERS PERSONAL EFFECTS. AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL ACCESSION NO. 20425.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of SX2600 Sergeant Rex Nelson Butler, 8 Division Ammunition Sub Park, Australian Army Service Corps [AASC]. Collection consists of four hand-drawn
CANBERRA, ACT. 1957-05-03. A COMMEMORATIVE COPPER PLAQUE FROM THE NORTH TOWER OF THE MOHNE DAM. THIS WAS ONE OF THE DAMS BREACHED BY THE FAMOUS ROYAL AIR FORCE, "DAMBUSTERS" SQUADRON IN THEIR RAID ON
Collection relating to the Second World War service of SX2600 Sergeant Rex Nelson Butler, 8 Division Ammunition Sub Park, Australian Army Service Corps [AASC], 1943. Wallet 1 of 1 - consists of fou
CANBERRA, ACT. 1957-05-03. "HIS MASTER'S VOICE" GRAMOPHONE AND A COLLECTION OF RECORDS USED IN TOBRUK AND OTHER THEATRES OF WAR BY BRIGADIER A.W. MCILVEEN, SALVATION ARMY. FOR SEVEN MONTHS DURING THE
MOROTAI ISLAND, 1945-05-13. TROOPS OF 49 TRANSPORT PLATOON (DUKWS) AUSTRALIAN ARMY SERVICE CORPS, LEAVING THE LANDING CRAFT VEHICLE AFTER DISEMBARKING FROM THE UNITED STATES ARMY TRANSPORT SEA CAT AT
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX10532 Gunner Leonard Christopher Patrick McLaren, 2/2nd Field Regiment, prisoner of war in Crete, 1941. McLaren, a 25-year-old traveler and dri