The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal group portrait of 8th Division personnel, ex-Prisoners-of-War of the Japanese, outside their hut ‘Australia House’ in the Kuching POW and Internment Camp, which they occupied from June 1943 to September 1945. Twelve of the thirteen men are identified, but positions for most are unknown: NX15952 Sergeant Colin Bruce Lander, 2/18th Infantry Battalion, from Paddington, NSW; VX45832 Corporal Gilbert William Gunning, 2/2 Pioneer Battalion, from Merino, Victoria; TX8132 Private (Pte) Hilton Phillip Riseley, 2/29 Infantry Battalion, from Hobart, Tasmania; NX33432 Pte Roy Edward Kent, 2/20 Infantry Battalion, from Ashfield, NSW; NX24301 Pte Eric Francis Davis, 2/20 Infantry Battalion, from North Bondi, NSW; QX16801 Driver Reginald John Alexander Fraser, 3 Reserve Motor Transport Company, from Charleville, Queensland; NX69641 Driver Bruce Walter Stephenson, 2/3 Motor Transport Reserve Company, from Cammeray, NSW; NX33861 Pte Dick Rixon (standing, second from right wearing white shorts and singlet), 2/18 Infantry Battalion, from Bega, NSW; VX57346 Lance Corporal Norman Weekes (standing on verandah, with pipe in mouth), Base Ordnance Depot, from Albert Park, Victoria; NX65330 Pte John Keith Simpson, 2/18 Infantry Battalion, from Ulladulla, NSW; NX25645 Pte Frederick Bindon, 2/18 Infantry Battalion, from Lismore, NSW; and NX37369 Pte Sidney Murray Outram, 2/30 Infantry Battalion, from Yass, NSW. (The original caption lists 2 soldiers who were in this hut but not in the photograph: NX2817 Pte William Walter Charles Kent, 2/20 Battalion, from Croydon, NSW, (brother of Pte Roy Kent) and 13731 Pte M E Lawler, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force.)
Informal group portrait of 8th Division personnel, ex-Prisoners-of-War of the Japanese, outside their hut ‘Australia House’ in the Kuching POW and Internment Camp, which they occupied from June 1943 t
Group portrait of ex-prisoners of war. Identified from left to right: NX3861 Private (Pte) R Rixon, 2/20th Battalion (possibly NX33861 Pte Dick Rixon 2/18 Battalion, from Bega, NSW); VX45832 Corporal
Informal portrait of NX34509 Private (Pte) John Thomas Glennon, 2/3 Pioneer Battalion, standing outside a tent. Pte Glennon, a plasterer and motor driver from Willoughby, NSW, enlisted on 18 June 1940
Group portrait of seven Australian former prisoners of war (POWs) at the Notogawa POW camp. These men of the 8th Division were captured when Singapore fell in 1942. Identified from left to right: VX27
Informal group portrait of Australian ex POWs from Saigon with an Australian flag made from mosquito net, handkerchiefs and red body belts. The flag was made by NX1847 Gunner Leslie Peade, 2/15th Aust
Released prisoners of war (POWs) speak with the first white women they have seen in years. Pictured left to right: Lieutenant A Ziske of Minnesota, USA; NX58351 Signalman William John Jones, 8 Corps o
