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Black and white photocopy of a 285 page typed manuscript titled 'Guests of the Samurai, by D.C Hutchinson-Smith'. Written by NX70289 Captain David Chadwick Hutchinson-Smith, it covers the period from the Japanese landing in Rabaul in January 1942 until the end of the war. Describes the author's surrender to the Japanese, transport from Lassul Bay to Rabaul on board the Duranbar, internment at Malaguna POW camp, removal of a large group of civilian internees on the ill-fated Montevideo Maru which was sunk by an Allied submarine, transport to Yokohama in Japan by the boat Naruto Maru along with a group of Army nurses, and internment in a camp at Zentsuji. Highly descriptive account of life in both POW camps, including treatment of prisoners, theft of food, sabotaging the Japanese war effort, inter-service rivalry of Japanese forces, aid and treachery of New Britain natives (Kanakas), hygiene and disease, forced labour, visits by International Red Cross delegate, allied air raids, and Japanese disregard of international law. Also describes brief time spent at Nishi-Ashibetsu on the island of Hokkaido until the end of the war and repatriation to Australia in September 1945. Captain Hutchinson-Smith's original manuscript is located in the Manuscript Collection, MSS1293.
Narrative account of captivity by the Japanese following the fall of Rabaul and imprisonment on New Britain, shipment to Japan and movement to Zentsuji POW camp. Details of camp life are recorded, inc
NISHI ASHIBETSU, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN. 1945-08-20. GROUP PORTRAIT OF REPRESENTATIVES OF AUSTRALIAN AND AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR WHO WERE ENTERTAINED AT DINNER BY THE MITSUI COMPANY, WHICH PROBABLY OWNED T
CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORT CONCERNING NEWS OF THE END OF HOSTILITIES, DINNER MENU PRESENTED BY THE JAPANESE AND A COPY OF A PERSONAL ACCOUNT DOCUMENTING LIFE AS A POW FROM THE TIME OF CAPTURE AT RABAUL
Manuscript titled 'Dave's way: A POW Memoir' compiled by Cherie Lawton in 2014 from taped cassettes containing the oral memoirs of the wartime experience of VX64170 Driver David Herbert Clark. Driver
Manuscript by Huckins, a Gunner in 22 Battery, 9th Coast Regiment of the Royal Artillery. Describes service in Singapore at the time of war in Europe, the fall of Singapore, Changi, and Burma-Thailand
Letters, telegrams and POW postcards written by VX46415 Driver Edward Foster ('Ted') Hutchinson to his family while serving in Malaya (1941-1942) with 1 Company, Petrol Section, Australian Army Servic