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Bendigo Military MuseumCurrency - CURRENCY, JAPANESE OCCUPATION, Japanese Government, c.1942
... Occupational currency issued by Japanese Occupational ...Occupational currency issued by Japanese Occupational Forces to control economic activity. Part of the collection of "Thomas Leslie Wilkinson", enlisted CMF V29622 and transferred AIF 3/8/42 on VX843388. Served on Morotai 2/9th Aust General Hospital.Miscellaneous Occupational Currency. 1. Ten Peso note, white paper, blue shaded, black stylised edges, image of palm trees on right. Back is brown on white No.10 in each corner and ten Pesos written in middle. 2. One Gulden note. Both sides brown writing and images in brown. Number "One" on both sides to the left and right. 3. Five Gulden note. Both sides predominately in green. Pictures of coconut trees to left and right and stamped SG. 4. Ten Dollar notes, country unknown. Pictures of coconut and banana trees on front and No. 10 in each corner. Foreground in dark green on front and light green on back.1. Inscribed "THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT" TEN PESOS. 2. Inscribed "DE JAPANSCHE REGEERING EEN GULDEN". 3. Inscribed 'DE JAPANSCHE REGEERING VIJF GULDEN" 4. Inscribed "THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND TEN DOLLARS."occupational currencies, thomas leslie wilkinson, ww2 -
Bendigo Military MuseumCurrency - CURRENCY, OCCUPATIONAL FORCES, Japanese Government, c.1942
Notes issued by Japanese Forces to be able to control economies of Occupational countries. Part of a collection re Thomas Leslie Wilkinson 2nd AIF. Refer Cat No 7996.6 for his service history.Six - One Centavo notes from Philippines during WW2. White paper with greenish shape in centre. The No.1 in each corner over black stylistic patterns and some Japanese writing at bottom. On back patterns are green with the No's 1 in corner and centre.On front is written "The Japanese Government", "One Centavo" and stamped "PK".currency, japanese occupational forces -
Bendigo Military MuseumCurrency - CURRENCY - INDONESIAN, Imperial Japanese Govt, c.1942
Part of collection of "Thomas Leslie Wilkinson" 2nd AIF. Refer Cat No 7996.6 for his service history.Two notes of Tien cent (10) denomination of Japanese issued occupation currency for Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, during WW2. Purple in colour on white paper. No.10 in each corner and "Tien Cent" on front.De Japansche Regeering Tien Cent.occupational currencies, thomas leslie wilkinson -
Bendigo Military MuseumCertificate - INSTRUMENT OF SURRENDER - JAPANESE
... . Japanese Surrender WW2 Certificater KEVIN JOHN HERDMAN Large ...Facsimile of the Instrument of Surrender of the Japanese Forces in New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville and adjacent Islands. Part of the "Kevin John Herdman" No. 397661 Collection. See Catalogue No. 5942P for details of his service.Large rectangular certificate with text in black type. Various fonts used for text. Japanese writing on bottom of page.japanese surrender, ww2, certificater, kevin john herdman -
Wangaratta RSL Sub BranchNewspaper - Framed newspaper article, The Age, 15/1/2024
The Age newspaper dated Monday January 15, 2024, page 30 - Obituaries - Frank McGovern October1,1919-May 24,2023 W11’s great survivor lived to be 103 - In 1939 McGovern aged 19 enlisted in the RAN and served on HMAS Westralia for 18 months prior to being deployed to HMAS Perth. On February 28 1942, two weeks after the fall of Singapore and having survived the Battle of Java HMAS Perth together with USS Houston entered the Sunda Strait coming into contact with the Japanese invasion convoy. HMAS Perth was vastly outnumbered and with no ammunition remaining the order came to abandon ship. Frank survived the sinking but 347 sailors including his older brother, ultimately perished. Frank became a prisoner of war and put to work on the Burma Railway for 12 months prior to being transported along with over 1000 Australian and British prisoners aboard the Rakuyo Maru to Japan. On September 12 1944 Rakuyo Maru and another prisoner transport ship were struck by American torpedos. As a result 1559 POW’s perished of which 543 were Australian. For the second time Frank survived a torpedo attack only to become a prisoner of war. Frank was a prisoner of war for 3 1/2 years and in 2019 was awarded the Order of Australia for services to veterans and their families, HMAS Perth Association and HMAS Perth Prisoner of War Association.Black frame containing newspaper article with three imagesfrank mcgovern, ran, ww2, pow, hmas perth, battle of sunda strait -
Bendigo Military MuseumBook - SKETCHES, WW2, Geoff Tyson, "OESAPA - BESAR AND OTHER REMNANTS", 1947
Item in the collection of "William John SULLIVAN" VX 57829. Refer to Cat No. 9523P for his service details. All illustrations by Geoff Tyson.SOFT COVER. Cover - cardboard, green colour with embossed finish. Black colour print on front and back. Front - illustrated with a sketch of a soldiers kit. Spine - metal staples. 40 pages (not numbered), cut, plain white paper. Collection of black and white drawings, sketches and maps from the POW's in Japanese hands.books, ww2, pow, william john sullivan
