Stories
Affadavits
Affidavit from A J Hambley WX10745 – Fukuoka sub-Camp 17
Japan’s 1942 Invasion of Burma and capture of vital Airfields
Krasnostein Affadavits regarding Beatings of POWs at Fukuoka sub-Camp No. 17, Omuta, Japan and in particular his own beating in April 1945
Colevas WX10609 Affadavit AWM 54 1010/4/34
War Trials. Hinnrichsen, Frank WX8198 from Kawasaki-Kobe House (Osaka area)
John Leahy’s account of life at Osaka Camp No. 9, Notagawa, Japan.
Camps
Omuta & its Mafia – just when you thought you have read the worst story!
POWS from Sumatra Flown to Perth
Sandakan – Ranau – Detailed Map of Camps – Portrait Photos of Soldiers
Showa-Denki – One of the Kobe Factories
Nacompaton Camp
Java & POW Camps
HAKENSHO – FUKUOKA SUB-CAMP NO. 9 – Roy Deveson and William ‘Pop’ Davey
Hindaine Camp 10.7.1943 – 31.8.1943
Kobe House, Japan
The Singapore POW Camps
Korea – Destination for Ted Roots, Jack Taylor, Jim Clancy, Bill Gray and Hubert ‘Dutchy’ Holland
KILOMETRE CHART OF THE THAILAND-BURMA RAILWAY
Adam Park Revisited
Doctors
TANBAYA HOSPITAL CAMP – 50 KILO CAMP, 1943 and MAJOR BRUCE HUNT, MEDICAL OFFICER (MO) ‘F’ FORCE
Dr Albert Coates & Dr Claude Anderson
The remarkable Dr Phil Millard, Kanu No. 2 Camp – by Mick Wedge
Captain Claude L Anderson WX3464
Events of War
The 1945 Bombing of Kobe
Tanjong Priok, the main harbour Java February 1942
Report on urgency of recovering POWs in Japan
Northam to Perth March
Original 2/4th Flag
Leave Denied
Japanese Atrocities
Honours and Awards
Members of 2/4th nominated for Medal but not awarded
Hill 200, Ulu IV (Mapanyang) 12th February 1942
Adam Park – Recovery of bodies at Hill 200
Selarang Barracks Changi & 2/4th story
Two Came Home – The Firing Squads
‘E’ Company, Special Reserve Battalion – South West Bukit Timah, 11th February 1942
‘D’ Company No. 13 Platoon, Lim Chu Kang Road 8th February 1942
Force & Work Parties
‘J’ FORCE & ‘WALES MARU’ PARTY
‘D’ Force S & T Battalions, Thailand
Pakan Baroe – Moearo Railway Line, Sumatra
‘Awa Maru’ Story
‘H’ Force Group No 3
X10 Party, Changi
‘A’ Force Burma, Java Party No. 4 Williams Force
‘B’ and ‘E’ Forces, Borneo – Sandakan & Ranau
The ‘Both’ story – SAIGON PARTY, French Indo-China
‘Aramis’ Story
Harris Party & WO II John Dooley Party
Black and Williams Forces – Java Parties No.s 3 and 4
Dunlop Force – Java Party No. 6 – O and P Battalions
Robertson Force, Java Party 5A
“Six out of 2500 escaped to tell the tale.”
‘A’ Force – Green Force No. 3 Battalion
‘D’ FORCE, U BATTALION
‘F’ FORCE
‘D’ Force V Battalion Group 6
AWOL Fremantle – ‘Blackforce’ Java
Sandakan Marches
Bukit Timah & Johore Bahru
Changi Camps – Work Parties
Need for ‘Puff, Puff Makin’ for Road works at Singapore Golf Course
Leadership
Anketell, Michael Joseph, Lieutenant-Colonel , Commanding Officer, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Newspaper Reports
News received at home from POWs in1943
Anniversaries
Diplomat Gets a Grim Reminder
British Belief in Own Propaganda
For your tomorrow they gave their today
WA was hit by fear
News of POWs 1943 and 6 degrees of Separation!
1940 Population of Western Australia was 466,686
Personal Stories
Soldiers of 2/4th who were ill and returned to Australia and those who were not taken POW
Hutchinson, Wally’s bath at Kobe, Japan
Baxter, ‘Slew’ WX8140 – by Wally Holding
Fuhrmann, Henry Charles, WX7852 Acting Corporal, DCM
Fitzgerald WX5425 Affidavit – ‘Scarface’
POWs Put Ordeal On Record
Salute to Victory
A man who fought but had no vote
Escape from Singapore & the Sumatra Story
Jimmy Smith entertains -A glorious moonlit tropical night
Tom Lewis WX74412 – His was a most Unfair Life!
Smith Ryan’s lucky escape from a Japanese firing squad 1942
Ridgwell, Bill Reeves and ‘Bushy’ Simmonds Return to West Australia 1945
Obituary for John Lane (formerly Ramsbottom) A Fairbridge Kid
COCKING – Released Prisoner of War – Survived sinking of Rakuyo Maru – rescued by USS Pampanito, returned November 1944 Western Australia
Clay & Wade return to Singapore
Frank Armstrong – First Sandakan Tragedy and Korean & Formosan Guards
Anketell Street, South Perth.
The Elliott family visit Singapore for the 75th Anniversary of Fall of Singapore 2017
Holding, Wally WX17634 His Story – Part 2
WX8493 Bert Norton’s recollections as per his diary
Holding, Wally WX17634 ~ His Story (Part 1)
Correspondence between Mrs Trigwell (mother of Vern Trigwell) with H.T. Bunker who survived Rakuyo Maru sinking
Fuhrmann, Harry WX7852
Pte. Harry Tysoe WX9226
Cpl. William James Paterson WX9073
Schurmann, John Henry WX5007 – Random Recollections
Three Newling Brothers
Pte. Tom Wayman WX7502
Burchell Brothers – Fairbridge
Poetry by Slim Pitts
Digger’s remains found at last – 2001 story of Rolf Newling
Lesley William McCann WX17837 Escape From Death
Jack George Kyros (Kyriakos) WX10715
McGlinnn, Fank WX8478 His Diary written after the war.
Jim Elliott obituary, March 2011
Heppingston, Ian – obituary 1999
Wally (Walter George) Worth WXC10012
Alf Worth and Jim Elliott – 2010
Lawyers On The Notorious Burma Thailand Railway
Carlyon, Bill – Changi Veteran recalls POW hell
Angela Gazey – Premier’s Student Tour Group 2012
Joe & Daniel Pearce
Dimopoulos Peter ANZAC of the year 2013
Borrow, Joseph WX8712 – Born 4/12/1916 & Died of wounds 15/2/1942, Singapore.
2002 Visit by Joe Pearce & John Morgan to Lim Chu Road (8 February 1942)
Dick Ridgwell’s POW’s story – never assume Japanese do not speak English!
Dick Ridgwell encounter with a Sikh, Singapore
Hodgson, Leonard Sydney ‘Tim’ – WX9231 – died Khonkan 5.5 km camp, Thailand 24 September 1943
Nicknames
Morrissey, Albert Edward (Bert) WX15751 ‘A’ Company
Dorrizi brothers – Sandakan
Post War
Pre-War & After War Work Place Deaths and Accidents
Lemnos Hospital for Mentally Incapacitated Soldiers
Lady Mitchell Convalescent Home, Eric Street, Cottesloe
Singapore Club
We still remember
A drink at the Alhambra Bar (1946)
Sentences passed on Japanese Criminals
Ships & Submarines
Pampanito, Queenfish, Barb & Sealion
HMAS Speaker, Manila to Sydney 1945
‘Aquitania’
Hospital Ships evacuation of sick, injured to Ceylon February 1942
Harukiku Maru – SS Van Waerwjick Party, Sumatra
Rakuyo Maru
Where Did They Come From?
Boyanup War Memorial
Wylakatchem WW2 War Memorial
Merredin War Memorial
Donnybrook War Memorial
Yarloop War Memorial
Collie & Worsley – Timber Area
Wesley Colllege, South Perth – 2/4th Soldiers who were former students who lost their lives WW2
Gnowangerup/Tambellup/Ongerup
Old Scotch Collegians
Shackleton Community’s Tribute to Langdon & Venemore,
Cripps & Northampton enlistments – Rakuyo Maru
Five from Mundijong
The Boys from Muckinbudin
Indigenous Western Australians who joined 2/4th
Fairbridge Farm School
Beacon Memorial
Donnybrook Boys – Vern Trigwell, Allan Trigwell, ‘Harry’ Cain & Bert Wall
