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Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX63817 Signalman Henry Wilfred Leo Woodgate
Wallet 1 of 1 contains three diaries of Woodgate, spanning November 1941 to October 1945. Entries describe the boat trip to Singapore (with extended stopover in Darwin), shelling by the Japanese and experiences as a POW at Changi and Selerang. The diaries also mention bee keeping, attending lectures, the behaviour of officers, buying goods from natives and growing vegetables, the circulation of 'furphies', working parties, and work on the Burma-Thailand Railway with attendant decline in conditions and health.
The collection also includes a letter from a Dutch friend in 1946 describing continued illness and poor conditions in Singapore, new clippings, a prisoner of war medical history card, a sergeant's certificate, recipes written on the back of a prison receipt, and miscellaneous papers.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX63817 Signalman Henry Wilfred Leo Woodgate Wallet 1 of 1 contains three diaries of Woodgate, spanning November 1941 to October 1945. Entries
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX63817 Signalman Henry Wilfred Leo Woodgate Wallet 1 of 1 contains three diaries of Woodgate, spanning November 1941 to October 1945. Entries
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX30281 Corporal Austin Carr, 2/21 Battalion. Collection consists of a diary and letters written on opened cigarette packets, kept while a priso
Collection relating to NX70508 Major Charles Patrick Tracey, 2/26 Battalion, Second World War. Collection comprises of five diaries written by Tracey documenting his service from the fall of Singapor
Collection relating to the Second World War Service of VX39006 Major John Kevin Lloyd, 2/29th Battalion, Singapore and Burma, 1942-1945. Collection consists of two handwritten diaries, one small and o
Collection relating to the First World War service of Lance Corporal Adrian Henry Edmonds (1061) who served on the Western Front. Collection consists of four diaries wrapped in a canvas satchel. The
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX45320 Major Kennedy Byron Burnside, 2 Australian Mobile Bacteria Lab, prisoner of war, Singapore, Malaya, 1941-1945. The collection consists o