The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Group portrait of allied prisoners of war (POWs) who shared a hut in Stalag 383. Identified are Bill Baxter (front left) and VX5489 Lieutenant (Lt) William Stephen George Foxwell MM, 2/7th Battalion. Lt Foxwell was captured by the Germans in 1941 and spent time in Stalag VIIa before being transferred to Stalag 383. He was held there as a POW until 22 April 1945, when the camp was liberated and he left for Paris on a motorcycle. He later flew to England and returned to Australia on board the RMS Otranto in August 1945. (Donor B. Foxwell)
Informal portrait of allied prisoners of war (POWs) in Stalag VIIa. Identified are Bill Walker (far right) and VX5489 Lieutenant (Lt) William Stephen George Foxwell MM, 2/7th Battalion. Lt Foxwell w
Four original handwritten diaries and a 1996 typescript transcript of the diaries entitled 'The Second World War diaries of Lieutenant W.S.G. Foxwell M.M. (VX5489) 2/7th Battalion: April 14, 1940 to S
"Ersatz Ashes". Book of colour sketches and scores of the cricket series played between Australian, New Zealand and British prisoners of war at Stalag 383, Hohenfels, Germany in 1943. The book was com
SYDNEY, NSW 1945-09-29. NX8604 CORPORAL NORTHROP, 2/4TH BATTALION, WAS GREETED BY HIS WIFE AND FAMILY AT THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOWGROUNDS. HE AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN EX PRISONERS OF THE GERMANS HAD RET
Album of 36 pages containing 85 black and white photographs relating to the service of WX4057 Private (Pte) Robert Thaddeus Roger, 2/7 Field Ambulance. Pte Roger, of Maylands, WA, was a prisoner of wa
SYDNEY, NSW 1945-09-29. AUSTRALIAN EX PRISONERS OF WAR COMING DOWN THE GANGWAY OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEAMER (RMS) OTRANTO. THESE MEN HAD BEEN CAPTURED BY THE GERMANS AND HELD IN PRISON CAMPS THROUGHOUT E
