The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Scrap book of articles and cuttings relating to the life and work of Private Bob Fox. He served as a horse breaker in the 3rd Light Horse Brigade in the 1914 - 1918 war and then in the 1939-1945 war with 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion. As part of Blackforce he was taken prisoner of the Japanese in Java and later moved to Thailand with Dunlop Force. He is remembered for his work making artificial legs for men whose limbs had been amputated. Included are photographs of Bob Fox and of the war time tributes to him from the surgeons in the POW hospitals and an account of his post war life.
Collection relating to SX5313 Private Robert Eldon Fox, 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion, 1943-1945. Collection consists of an album containing illustrations of the different types of artificial legs Fox mad
"The Gap is bridged" the unit history for the 2/6th Field Company Royal Australian Engineers. Covers their service in West Java and later imprisonment by the Japanese as part of Blackforce in Java, Th
Nakom Paton, Thailand. 1944-45. Various types of improvised prosthetics and artificial limbs used by soldiers who had lost either all or part of their leg and/or foot. They were locally manufactured b
Nakom Paton, Thailand. 1944-45. Various types of improvised prosthetics and artificial limbs used by soldiers who had lost either all or part of their leg and/or foot. They were locally manufactured b
MANUSCRIPTS, PROOFS AND PRESS CUTTINGS OF ARTICLES AND VERSE CONCERNING EXPERIENCES OF SOLDIERS IN THE LIGHT HORSE BRIGADE AND CAMEL CORPS. INCLUDES AN EULOGY TO A SOLDIER KILLED DURING THE CAPTURE OF
An artificial collection of press cuttings, mainly letters to the editor of national newspapers, unedited articles submitted to those papers by Dr Hank Nelson and Dr David Horner. They were all writte