The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX26580 Private Merton Nelson Short, 2/18th and 2/19th Infantry Battalions. Collection consists of sixteen personal letters written by Private Short to a friend, Mary Owen, 1941-1942. Many of the letters are decorated with comical illustrations. Also included are thirty six photographs mainly of Singapore and Malacca, taken by Short prior to 1942.
Private Short was taken prisoner of war following the fall of Singapore, and died of illness in Sandakan POW camp on 13 July 1945.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX26580 Private Merton Nelson Short, 2/18th and 2/19th Infantry Battalions. Collection consists of original letters and cards written by Private
The four letters in this collection were sent to Nelson Ong after the Second World War and concern the death in 1943 of his friend QX17257 Acting Sergeant Desmond Mackay, while a POW in Thailand. Nels
Collection relating to the service of NX53734 Gunner Walter Castle Nelson, Middle East, Italy, German, England, 1939-1945. Collection consists of: thirty-six letters from Nelson to his mother; nine
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX30281 Corporal Austin Carr, 2/21 Battalion. Collection consists of a diary and letters written on opened cigarette packets, kept while a priso
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX30008 Private Douglas John May, 22 Infantry Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Singapore and Borneo, 1942. Collection consists of two prisoner o
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX87621 Private Norman John Tolley, 2/2 Pioneer Battalion. Collection consists of eight letters written by Tolley to his brother Mick. The lett