The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX12153 Lieutenant William Richard Bates. Collection consists of a black and white photocopy of a diary, covering the period May to October 1941 and April to May 1945. The first part of the diary commences in May 1941 with the surrender of 2/1 Battalion on Crete, and recounts Bates' experiences as a prisoner of war on Greece, and his journey across Europe to a prisoner of war camp in Lubeck in the north of Germany. The second part of the diary re-commences in April 1945 and recounts his liberation from a prisoner of war camp in Bavaria in the south of Germany. The photocopied diary is accomanied by a typed transcript. Also include are comments made by Bates on the diary of Lieutenant Maurice Grant Boydell (a fellow POW), with further description of Bates' own experiences. Boydell's diary is held at PR86/004.
The Memorial also a book about Bates' experiences, 'Kriegie 3294 : a prisoner of war in Germany' by Toni Gallagher and Michael William Bates, held in the Memorial's library collection at F 940.530994 G162k.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of QX6141 Maurice Grant Boydell, 2/1 Anti-Tank Regiment, prisoner of war in Germany. Collection consists of four original hand written diaries writ
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX30312 Private John William Bates, prisoner of war, Second Australian Imperial Force, Singapore, 1942-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 – Consists of one dia
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX35135 Gunner Francis William Christie, 4 Anti-Tank Regiment, Singapore, Japan, 1941-1945. Wallet 1 of 2 - consists of a diary transcript rela
Diary for 1941 with retrospective entries for the period 30 May to 22 December 1940, compiled by Lieutenant (then NX24403 Private) William Lancaster Carter of 7 Division Ammunition Sub-Park. Associate
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX16593 Corporal George Loughlin Blore, HQ 20 Australian Infantry Brigade, England, 1940-1941. Collection consists of a handwritten diary written
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX129332 Lieutenant William Henry Larkin. Collection consists of correspondence, notebooks, a memoir, papers, souvenirs and ephemera relating to