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"The Body Snatchers" typescript account of Leemon's service with 26th War Graves Registration and inquiry units in Australia, New Guinea, Burma and Thailand. He provides a detailed account of the role of the unit and the methods they used to identify bodies, the exhumation process, and reburial; mentions the role of the local people in location of cemeteries and graves, the role of the ANGAU controllers and the surrendered Japanese. It is detailed and well written providing a good account of post war Singapore, Bangkok (including the behaviour of liberated prisoners of war), Rangoon and the September 1945 trip to survey the grave locations along the Burma Thailand Railway including Thanbyuzayat and Kanchanaburi, with Padre Babb, Jack Sherman and others. This section includes comment on the condition of the cemeteries and the recovery of buried records. He also mentions the role of conscripted coolie labour and their death rate. Also see Padre Babb's account at 3DRL/6012(A).
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 72732 Chaplain Henry Cecil Babb, British Army, prisoner of war, Thailand and Burma, 1945. Wallet 1 of 1 - Consists of a diary maintained by Chap
Three Pagoda Pass, Thailand. c. October 1945. Informal group portrait of War Graves Commission survey party members at Three Pagoda Pass, on the Burma Thailand border. Left to Right; Warrant Officer 2
Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Padre H. C. F. Babb (British ex-prisoner of war (POW)) and a bare-chested Lieutenant Jack Leemon, 26th Australian War Graves Unit standing on a stretch of th
Nakom Paton, Thailand. 22 September 1945. Informal group portrait of the War Graves Commission survey party, including former prisoners of war (POW) who acted as guides. The survey party's task was to
Collection relating to the Second World War service of SX10112 Private Jack Wilfred Turner, 2/27th Infantry Battalion and POW, 1941-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 consists two original diaries plus a typescri
Diary kept by Corporal Keating, Military Staff Clerk for 13th Australian Infantry Brigade Headquarters. Detailed account of daily life, including bombardments, lice,conditions of dugouts, air battles,