The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection of QX62238 (Q52) Lieutenant Alan Hooper, Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU). It includes letters and messages from outposts mentioning food, wireless sets, and Japanese movements. Many of these are written on scraps of paper, indicating shortage of supplies. Includes letter from civilian asking advice on safe location for his family, also providing information about Japanese movements and Kanakas loyal to Japanese. Includes Japanese occupation currency, envelopes of philatelic interest, and folder titled `published correspondence'. Hooper published a book titled `Love, War and letters'.
Manuscript titled "The Love, War and Letters of Q52", traces author's experiences in New Guinea 1940-1945. Narrative is based around letters sent to his fiance (later wife). Discusses Japanese advance
Collection includes service records, transcripts of oral history tape recorded in 1983, prisoner of war diary and lettercards, telegrams and correspondence between Sergeant Heckendorf, his family and
Letters home describing camp in Egypt, service in France and hospitalization in England. The letters also comment on political issues. Also includes a bound typescript titled 'Closer to the Cannon's M
Letters to `Maggie' describing training in England, inspection by the King, German air raids by zeppelins, and the weather in Australia. Two letters to Clive from mother discussing family news, and pr
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX44767 Driver Kemble Alexander McNeill Thompson, 2/3 Motor Ambulance Convoy, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Malaya and Thailand, 1
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX18011 Sapper George Arthur Kelly, 2/6 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, prisoner of war, Java, 1942-1945. The collection consists of