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Personal and service related records of VX34955 Corporal Leslie Edgar Bower of 2/10 Field Company (8 Division). Bower's personal diary was written while he was a POW (1942-1945); other items include his paybooks; a photo of Bower with other soldiers and sailors on board HMS Speaker; service-issued notebooks; letters and POW postcards written to and from Bower and his family. Incorporated on 8 May 2002: three letters relating to Corporal Bower's time as a POW of the Japanese in Malaya and Japan, comprising an official letter from AMF Records Office Victoria (dated 25 June 1942) informing his wife that Cpl Bower had been posted as 'missing'; a letter dated 11 August 1943 to Cpl Bower's wife in connection with a Japanese POW radio broadcast and a letter to Bower from his mother, dated 24 August 1943, in which she expresses the delight felt by her family on hearing Cpl Bower's broadcast on Tokyo Radio. Also included in the additional items are three official Japanese POW and Japanese Red Cross Society envelopes used for the Bower correspondence.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 404478 Sergeant Frank Graham Bower. Collection consists of approximately 70 personal letters written by Bower, covering the periods of enlistm
Collection relating to the Second World War service of QX13417 Sapper Bernard Leone Young, 2/11 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, Indonesia and Australia, 1940-1945. Folder 1 contains: one
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX124 Lieutenant Colonel James Miller, 2/31st Infantry Battalion. Collection consists of three letters written by Miller home to his family. Th
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX35415 Acting Corporal Barry Vincent McGinley, 2/19th Australian Infantry Battalion, Malaya 1941-1942. Collection consists of three letters and
Collection of three original letters handwritten by WX8167 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) William Eric Rule (known as Eric) Dennis, who served with 1 Independent Company, to his mother in Australia. Two lette
Collection of personal and official records relating to 325 Private Aubrey George Farmer DCM, who served with 3rd Battalion AIF and was Killed In Action on 29 April 1915: two transcripts of undated le