The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NX51530 Private Arthur Walter Charlton, 2/18 Battalion, of Canberra, ACT, points to where the rising sun badge used to be on his original five-year-old slouch hat. He was a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese for three and a half years and was recovered from Naoestu camp in Japan. Asked where the badge had gone, he said, "a man gets very hungry in these POW camps and the Japanese like souvenirs. For a badge you could get a small bowl of rice to keep you going for a while".
New Guinea. This Japanese prisoner of war (POW) was left behind by his comrades when they evacuated the Sanga River area. He was too weak to keep up with the retreating army. At Rear Headquarters food
An Australian soldier is depicted reclining back on a two wheeled cart as he gets pulled along by a native man in Colombo, Ceylon. The soldier has his feet up and is smoking a cigarette as he proudly
222410 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Francis Austin Darcy, of East Maitland, NSW, a security guard with the RAAF at Vung Tau, South Vietnam, checks the pass of a visitor to an air force establishment. LA
Portrait of a serviceman from the Australian Army Medical Corps; his shoulder patch 'AMC' just visible in the portrait. He also wears the Rising Sun badge on the left shoulder of his uniform and his s
A small white porcelain bowl base without a lid. In dark blue it has a design of mountains and Japanese text around the base. This small bowl (lid missing) was collected in Hiroshima, 1945, by Merc
RICE DISTRIBUTION IN MALAYAN WAR ZONES. THIS CHINESE GETS A BAG OF RICE FROM GOVERNMENT STOCKS. HE TIES IT TO HIS BICYCLE. HIS MOTHER LOOKS PLEASED.
