The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Manuscript details Shute's escape from a POW work camp at Mahr Trubau in 1945 with an American girl. Covers journey to Prague through retreating German and advancing Russian lines, linking with American forces and return to England.
Manuscript titled `As I saw it', describing experiences in Dutch forces during the Second World War. Covers imprisonment in German POW camps in Europe, escape to Switzerland, training in Australia wit
39 page manuscript entitled "CMJ Memoirs August 1940 to end WW11". Manuscript details much of the service of C.M. Johnson during the Second World War, with the majority of the text being on his captur
Manuscript entitled "The Lost Years" by Frank Mauri (Pen name of F.J. Giles, VX39092). Details the experiences of the author through the Second World War. First chapters deal with enlistment, prelimin
Manuscript entitled "World War 11 Memories of Normal Stanley Gibb Service No. VX5842 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion". The manuscript details the experiences of Private Gibb through the Greece and Crete c
Silver Russian ruble (or rouble), 3.3cm diameter. Impressed edge. The obverse features Cyrillic script and a coat of arms. The reverse features two figures and a radiant sun above the inscription '192
Typed photocopy of Le Souef's autobiography "To war without a gun" which was published by Artlook, Perth, 1980. Bulk of manuscript covers capture in Crete, life as a doctor treating fellow prisoners o