The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the Second World War service of SX13712 Captain Osmar Julius Blau, 27 Brigade Field Workshop, 74 Light Aid Detachment, 22 Brigade, Australia, 1942-1945.
Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection contains typescript of an address by Osmar Julius Blau that he presented to the Toowong Boy Scouts and Cubs on 24 April 1997, concerning his captivity as a prisoner of war of the Japanese, 1942-1945. It describes the military situation and fighting leading to the fall of Singapore, and Blau's part as a POW in 'A Force' under Lieutenant Colonel George Ramsay at Mergui (building an airstrip), Tavoy and Thanbyuzayat (building and maintaining part of the Thailand-Burma railway, including the Hintok bridge). It also comments on the Japanese system of work parties, the Australian officers' roles and medical conditions, including the incidence of jungle typhus.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of SX13712 Captain Osmar Julius Blau, 27 Brigade Field Workshop, 74 Light Aid Detachment, 22 Brigade, Australia, 1942-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 - Collect
Collection relating to the Second World War service of SX13712 Captain Osmar Julius Blau, 27 Brigade Field Workshop, 74 Light Aid Detachment, 22 Brigade, Australia, 1942-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 - Collect
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX70153 Captain Arthur William Hence, MBE, 2/18 Australian Infantry Battalion. Consists of one original handwritten diary and nominal roll kept b
Thanbyuzayat Allied War Cemetery, Burma. c. 30 January 1955. Situated approximately sixty five kilometres south of Moulmein, Thanbyuzayat was the starting point of the Burma-Thailand railway construct
Collection relating to 7950 Sergeant John Slater, Armoured Car Company, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force, 1942-1949. It comprises correspondence written by Slater to his wife Anne, 1942-1945, in
Collection relating to the First World War service of 706 Captain Clarence Wallach MC, 19 Battalion. Collection consists of a transcript of a diary covering troopship journey, arrival at Gallipoli in
CHANGI DIARY OF CAPT ROGERS, NOTES ON VARIOUS CAMPAIGNS, IDENTITY CERTIFICATE, VARIOUS ORDERS OF THE DAY, INCLUDING ONE RE SIGNING OF PROMISE NOT TO ESCAPE 1942-45