The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX53590 Private John Anthony Shrimpton, 2/4 Australian Infantry Battalion, Thailand, 1945.
Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection consists of one six-page letter from Private Shrimpton to his sister Emma, dated 26 September 1945. In his letter, written from a hospital camp in Thailand, Private Shrimpton shares his experiences of being a prisoner of war of the Japanese. He writes about the delays in people being notified that their family members were prisoners of war, Australian prisoners being beaten and killed by Japanese guards, being beaten for not saluting, a brigadier being forced to watch the execution of eight of his soldiers, being on a vermin-infested prisoner of war ship, the very large number of prisoner deaths, digging graves for his mates in the middle of the night, hiding in slit trenches while the camp was being bombed by Allied aircraft, and working on the Burma-Thai Railway. He then goes on to write about his excitement to be home again and see his family and friends.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX30261 Private Clifford Haist, 2/12 Field Ambulance, Thailand and Singapore, c 1942-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 – Consists of one postcard and one lett
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX55757 Private Leon Silman, 2/9 Field Ambulance, Malaya, 1945. Collection consists of one letter from Private Silman to Miss Margot Kochen (lat
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX27787 Private John Henry 'Jack' Jones, 2/20 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Singapore and Australia, 1945. Wa
Collection relating to the Second World War service of QX1832 Private William Thomas Whalen, 2/1 Australian Ordnance Stores Company, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, 1941-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 – Con
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX56162 Private Maurice Joseph Kelk, Second Australian Imperial Force, Germany and Australia, 1944-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 – Consists of three items
Collection relating to the Second World War of NX13187 Private John Lewis Smart, 2/1st Infantry Battalion, prisoner of war in Germany, 1943. Collection consists of a photograph album containing black