The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Related to the Second World War service of NX76282 (N101861) Lieutenant Veronica Ann Clancy, 2/13th Australian General Hospital and POW. Collection consists of photocopied annotated memoirs in typescript form. They cover initial war service in Hay, her service in Singapore, her three and a half years internment as a Japanese POW on Banka Island and in Sumatra, liberation and repatriation to Australia.
[item 1] Photocopied typescript covers enlistment, service in Hay nursing internees, arrival in Malaya, the withdrawal to Singapore, the evacuation, the sinking of the "Vyner Brooke", association with Vivien Bullwinkel, and initial incarceration as a POW, as well as how they almost became comfort women. Note, there is no overall pagination. Arranged in 'chapters', there is individual numbering for each chapter.
[items 2.1 - 2.3] Includes copies and variations of some pages from item 1. There are also pages that do not appear to fit in with items 1, 3 and 4.
[items 3.1 - 3.2] Photocopied typescript. Arranged in chapters with overall pagination pp. 129-414. Covers 1943, and includes a detailed look at life as a POW with such topics as cooking, use of water, administration, elections, entertainment, the Men's camp, Christmas 1943 and other European female POWs. Some pages are missing and some are duplicated.
[items 4.1 - 4.4] Variations of some sections from item 3.1.
[item 5] Photocopied typescript. Arranged in chapters with overall pagination pp. 415-697. Covers final years as a POW, 1944-1945. Topics include Banka Island, illness, Christmas 1944, the loss of fellow POWs, return trip to Sumatra, liberation, repatriation to Australia aboard 'Manunda', and the welcome home Lt Clancy and other ex-POW nurses received.
Typescript of Field's manuscript history of his militia service and war time experiences "Warriors for the working day". Item (1) carbon copy with manuscript amendments. Chapters 1-12 plus extra copie
Draft chapters for "These are facts : the autobiography of Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams KBE, CB & DSO". This covers his service in the 1914-1918 war and the 1939-1945 war and traces the beginnings
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Private NX66840 Dudley Norman Wilkinson, band member with 2/30 Battalion. Collection consists of one small original handwritten diary kept by Wil
Photocopy of a typescript Second World War memoir (26 pp) titled 'Return From Singapore' written in 1986 by Clarence J Weir (formerly Wx4034/VX156487 Signaller Clarence J Weir) who served in M Section
Letters to Commander Hay of the Salvation Army from McKenzie. One telegram from Hay to McKenzie. Collection PR84/150 is another collection relating to McKenzie and contains letters he wrote to his wi
Original diary, numerous letters to his wife and children, articles, photographs, postcards and official correspondence relating to Chaplain Major McKenzie's First World War service and the award of h