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Typescript memoirs (39 pages) of Warrant Officer Eric Woolmer, No. 463 Squadron RAAF. They relate to his service as a wireless operator with the squadron, flying Avro Lancaster aircraft, and then as a prisoner of war (POW) of the German Army after being shot down over Germany on 6 November 1944. The recollections include a transcript of his diary kept from 6 November 1944 to 21 May 1945; photocopies of two pages of the original diary written on the back of cigarette packets; a transcript of a report written by Woolmer on their forced march from Stalag Luft 7 at Baukau, Germany, in January 1945; contemporary and modern photographs of RAAF crew, the author and memorabilia. The diary transcript and the report of the forced march include details of his interrogation, recreation activities in the POW camps, their reactions to air raids, attempted escapes by others and finally their release by the Russians and transfer to the American Army.
Manuscript written by Ronald Charles Mackenzie, "An ordinary war 1940-1945", based on diaries he kept during the Second World War. Mackenzie documents his training as a wireless air gunner in Austral
MATERIAL RELATING TO DRIJBER'S COMPLETION OF THE RAAF AIR OBSERVERS COURSE IN AUSTRALIA. AUSTRALIAN MEMORABILIA AND FOUR PAGES OF NOTES WRITTEN IN DUTCH IN A JAPANESE DIARY
Illustrated and typed transcript (37 pages) of personal diary originally written by 3154 Sapper William Augustus "Bill" Wilkinson of 5th Field Company Engineers. Diary spans November 1915 to December
Papers of NX32826 Sergeant John Leslie Lennon, General Base Depot, 8th Division AIF, relating to his service in the Second World War and especially the fall of Singapore and his time in Changi Prisone
Collection relating to the Second World War service of TX50 Private Patrick Joseph Lattin, 2/12 Battalion. Collection consists of a diary kept in a notebook (and copy) written by Lattin while a priso
Photocopied handwritten and typed memoirs (67 pages total), titled "From Sydney Through Hell to Sydney Remembering 50 years 1945-1995", by NX47238 Lieutenant M H Felsch of 2/20 Battalion. Memoirs cove