The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Rockhampton, Qld. 1945. Portrait of QX12327 Private (Pte) Norman Joseph (Derry) Derrington, 2/26th Battalion after he had been repatriated to Australia after four years in Japanese prisoner of war camps. Pte Derrington was amongst the working parties on the Burma-Thailand Railway and after completion of the railway late in 1943 he returned to Changi Gaol. He had his 21st birthday in March 1944 while in camp and his mate QX12881 Pte Wally Cave made a key for him from the metal of a crashed Japanese Zero fighter and engraved the key with nails. Pte Derrington who had originally been under age when he enlisted also served as 1/400067, in the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) in Korea where he was wounded at the Battle of Kapyong. (Donor N. Derrington)
Aluminium key and tag manufactured from a piece of aircraft metal. Hand engraved on one side of the tag is 'QX12327 2/26TH BN / N T DERRINGTON'. On the other side is 'from Wally / CHANGI / 9-3-44'. E
Ten yen to feed the sacred deer of Japan. Private (Pte) Norman Derrington of Rockhampton, QLD, is buying a basinful of feed from a Japanese woman in the deer park at Miya Jima, Japan. Looking on (left
Ten yen to feed the sacred deer of Japan. Private (Pte) Norman Derrington of Rockhampton, QLD (in front of sign), and Pte Bill Morley of South Brisbane, QLD (obscured, wearing a slouch hat) are feedin
Studio portrait of QX11305 Private (Pte) Reginald Joseph Valmadre, 2/26th Battalion, of Bowen, Qld. Pte Valmadre enlisted on 6 July 1940. When Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, just
Australian soldiers assembling as Prisoner of War (POW) work parties. This negative features an image of 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches in size. It is one of 202 images relating to the service of NX37745 Privat
NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. MEMBERS OF THE A.I.F. PLAYING CARDS AFTER THEY HAD DRIVEN THE JAPANESE FROM KOMIATUM RIDGE. SITTING ON THE CASE WITH JAPANESE LETTERING IS PTE. WALLY FORD, OF COBURG, VIC.,
