The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Private Hubertus Petrus Verwayen, Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. Pte Verwayen was a prisoner of war of the Japanese. While in Java D camp he sent a postcard to his wife which is written in Malay. Roughly translated, he tell his wife that he is in good health as he hopes they are, and how happy he would be if he were able to see them all once more. He also states that any response must be sent by way of a postcard also written in Malay. Pte Verwayen died while a prisoner of the Japanese, working on the Burma-Thai railway and is buried in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery in Thailand. His wife and son settled in Australia after the war.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of SX9236 Private (Pte) John James Boyall Noble who served with the Australian Army Service Corps, 8th Division Ammunition Sub Park. Pte Noble died
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 7950 Sergeant John Slater, Armoured Car Company, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force, 1942-1949. It comprises correspondence written by Slater to his wife Anne, 1942-1945, in
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX37385 Private Francis Prosser, 2/29th Australian Infantry Battalion, Malaya, Singapore, Australia, 1941-1946. Collection consists of: - One
Collection of seven letters written by 13428 Sergeant Desmond Vandergrift Giblin, 4 Pahang Battalion, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force (FMSVF) and two by his wife, written to family at home in T
Collection relating to the First World War service of 4930 Private Henry George (Harry) Whiting. Wallet 1 of 1 - consists of an original four page handwritten letter by 4930 Private Henry George Whi