The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX36354 Driver Albert Grady, 2/21 Battalion. Collection consists of a photocopy of a diary maintained from enlistment in June 1940, attachment to 2/21 Bn, transport to Darwin, posting to Ambon, a brief account of the fighting and eventual escape from Ambon via Ceram to Thursday Island. Also in the collection is a digital file and hardcopy of a typed transcription of the diary, including footnotes, compiled by Marilla Rootsey in 2015.
ACCOUNT OF THE WARTIME EXPERIENCES OF PTE HARRIS INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHTING IN AMBON AND OF HIS POW EXPERIENCES IN AMBON AND HAINAN. ALSO PHOTOCOPY OF "BATTLE OF AMBON", A JAPANESE ACCOUNT O
Collection related to Corporal Thomas Clark, 2/21st Battalion. Photocopy of diary extracts from 31 January to 2 April 1942, detailing the defence of Ambon, retreat across the island and eventual esca
Original diary kept by Armstrong while serving with the 2/21 Battalion and later as a POW of the Japanese. The diary covers the period 13 Dec. 1941 - 1 Sept. 1943. There is also a typed copy and a pho
REPORT PREPARED BY R C GABRIEL COVERING THE PILGRIMAGE TO AMBON IN 1985 BY MEMBERS OF THE 2/21 BN ASSOCIATION AND 13 SQN RAAF ASSOCIATION
DIARY, WRITTEN ON A DAILY BASIS, RECOUNTING THE RETREAT FROM RABAUL BY FOOT, ESCAPE FROM NEW BRITAIN IN THE PINNACE "BLACK MARIA" AND EVENTUAL RETURN TO PORT MORESBY BY RAAF CATALINA. THE ACCOUNT WAS
DIARY COVERING TRAINING ON THE SALISBURY PLAIN, POSTING TO 66TH BN AND MG TRAINING, ATTACKS ON BROODSEINDE AND PASSCHENDAELE, LATER WOUNDING AND EVACUATION TO THE UK