The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal group portrait of Australian ex POWs from Saigon with an Australian flag made from mosquito net, handkerchiefs and red body belts. The flag was made by NX1847 Gunner Leslie Peade, 2/15th Australian Field Regiment, from Stanmore, NSW, who is on the left. Others in image from left to right: NX20501 Private William James Stevens, 2/19th Australian Infantry Battalion, from Lostock, NSW; TX4493 Driver Geoffrey Albert Woolley, 2/3rd Australian Motor Ambulance Convoy, from Bruny Island, Tasmania; TX4477 Driver Roy Patrick Taylor, 2/3rd Australian Motor Ambulance Convoy from Hobart, Tasmania, SX14921 Driver Lenard Lancelot Chapman, 2/2nd Australian Motor Company from Murray Bridge, South Australia.
ALBURY, NSW. 1945-09-19. THE FIRST BATCH OF PRISONERS OF WAR RELEASED FROM JAPANESE PRISON CAMPS TRAVELLED BY NSW HOSPITAL TRAIN TO ALBURY WHERE THEY WERE TRANSFERRED TO 6TH AUSTRALIAN AMBULANCE TRAIN
SINGAPORE. 1945-09-13. PRISONERS OF WAR RELEASED FROM CHANGI PRISON CAMP WERE EVACUATED FROM SINGAPORE BY THE AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL SHIP MANUNDA, THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN SHIP TO ARRIVE AT SINGAPORE AFTER T
BANGKOK, THAILAND 1945-09-21. AUSTRALIAN FLAG MADE BY EX- AUSTRALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR AT NUMBER 8 CAMP SAIGON. THEY USED A MACHINE BORROWED FROM THE KOREAN GUARDS. THE FLAG IS MADE FROM MOSQUITO NETS,
Tas. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of TX4471 Driver Walter Percy Chapman, 2/3rd Motor Ambulance Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
TROOPS LEAVE THE TRAIN AT THE HARBOURSIDE WHARF, READY TO EMBARK FOR MALAYA. SECOND FROM LEFT IS PRIVATE JUDGE, NEXT TO HIM CORPORAL E. JENKINS, AND ON FAR RIGHT PRIVATE TILSON, ALL OF 2/3RD MOTOR AMB
PORT MORESBY AREA, NEW GUINEA. 1943-12-02. NX139809 DRIVER A. F. WEATHERALL (2) OF THE 2ND AUSTRALIAN MOTOR AMBULANCE CONVOY DEMONSTRATES THE NEWLY DESIGNED JEEP AMBULANCE. ALSO SEEN ARE: NX103811 LAN
