The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX71456 Corporal John Gilbert 'Tom' Morris, Australia, 1982-83, 2000.
Wallet 1 of 7 - contains memoirs titled, "A soldier's reflections forty years on", Morris' account of his experiences while serving with the 22nd Infantry Brigade in Malaya and Singapore, in particular time spent as a POW of the Japanese in Thailand and Burma. Dated 25 March 1983.
Wallet 2 of 7 - contains photocopies of five appendices, four of which consist of selected extracts from: 22 Brigade Headquarters war diary; diary of Major Charles Green 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion; Lieutenant Colonel C W G Anderson's written report 1945; and statements by Lieutenant Colonel Tom Hamilton, Major W E Fisher, Lieutenant Colonel A E Coates, Major K J Fagan and Lieutenant Colonel E E Dunlop. Fifth appendix is a report on conditions, life and work of POW in Burma and Siam 1942-1945.
Wallet 3 of 7 - contains bound volume "The personal memoirs of NX1456 Cpl J G 'Tom' Morris HQ 22 Aust Inf Bde 1941 - 1945". Dated 24 October 1983.
Wallet 4 of 7 - contains 2 copies of "Nominal roll of 22 Bde. HQ and attached troops 1941-45".
Wallet 5 of 7 - contains a paper presented at the International Colloquium held at ANU on 20 August 1991, The history of the construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway. Morris' paper "Memories of the Burma-Thailand Railway" contains his personal memories of the railway construction and the 55 Kilo Hospital in Burma and comments on the railway in the period 1944-1945. The colloquium participants included ANU academics, Japanese academics and former prisoners of the Japanese.
Wallet 6 of 7 - contains part 1 of a "Photographic Supplement to the personal memoirs of NX71456 Cpl J.G. 'Tom' Morris H.Q 22nd Aust. Inf. Bde. 1941-1945". Includes extra annotations, photos, drawings, maps, letters, articles and official documents..
Wallet 7 of 7 - contains part 2 of a photographic supplement.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 65126 (TX2092) Colonel Charles Mervyn Fotheringham, 1942-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 contains a copy of the diary and memoirs of Colonel Charles M Fothe
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX76556 Lieutenant Rae Norman Nixon, 8 Australian Division Signals, Australian Army, Burma and Thailand, 1942-1994. Wallet 1 of 7 contains mate
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX35139 Captain Roy Markham Mills, 2/10 Field Ambulance, Burma-Thailand Railway, April-November 1943. Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection contains nomina
Collection relating to the Second World War service of SX10761 Major Alan Frank Hobbs, 2/4 Casualty Clearing Station, Thailand, 1942-1945. Wallet 1 of 2 - Consists of a photocopy of Hobbs' personal d
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX60066 Lance Corporal Frank Baylis Mackenzie, 8 Division Headquarters, Australia, Thailand, Burma, 1919-1995. Collection consists of three wall
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 65126 (TX2092) Colonel Charles Mervyn Fotheringham, 1942-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 contains a copy of the diary and memoirs of Colonel Charles M Fothe
