The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection related to NG33 Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Victor Mervyn Ian Gordon who served with 2/30 Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War. The main items in the collection are five handwritten notebooks kept by WO2 Gordon whilst he was a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese in Changi. All of the notebooks contain extensive and detailed food recipes, and one also contains recipes to make household cleaning agents. Additional items include a small handwritten memo concerning an AIF Concert Party, a copy of a typed agreement relating to the transfer of a piano accordion between WO2 Gordon and the Changi POW Camp Headquarters, signed and dated 28 January 1945, and ten loose pages of paper with handwritten notes from meetings of POWs in Changi in 1943, including a list of speakers and their lecture subjects from May to August 1943.
Diary kept by Parsons during his period as a POW (prisoner of war) of the Japanese. Handwritten entries in ink describe the surrender, the move to Changi and then River Valley Camp (work on the Cabbag
Collection relating to the service of Signalman Robert Cecil Lent, Malaya Command Signals, British Army, 1945, and later of 7 Division Signals, Australian Army. Collection consists of a booklet conta
PERSONAL DIARIES, DRAFTS AND COPIES OF OFFICIAL WAR DIARIES, REPORTS AND LECTURE DETAILS FROM THE "CHANGI UNIVERSITY", NOTEBOOKS, MAPS AND PRINTED MATERIAL RELATING TO BRIGADIER TAYLOR'S SERVICE ON SE
Two handwritten diaries and a typed transcript detailing Gunner Miggins' time as a prisoner of war (POW) in Changi, with 'D' Force working on the Burma-Thailand Railway, being transfered to Japan, wor
Papers of Corporal Gordon Binns relating to his service with 2nd Machine Gun Company during the First World War. Items in the collection include record of service notebooks, service papers, menus, c
Diary of Lt White written whilst he was a POW in Changi and with 'F' Force on the Burma-Thailand Railway. The diary details the daily struggle of POWs against disease, starvation and the Japanese guar