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Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Book, The Piper of Pax
The Piper of Pax The Life Story of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Bt. Of Pax Hill, Bentley, in the County of Hampshire Author: E K Wade Publisher: C Arthur Pearson Ltd Date: 1924Label on spine cover with typed text RH 923.6 POW Pastedown front endpaper has sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Librarywarrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, great ocean road, book, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, warrnambool public library, the piper of pax, sir robert baden-powell, baden-powell, e k wade -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Photograph
Photograph of soldiers taken circa 11 October 1914 All enlisted on the 17th of August, 1914 at Wangaratta unless stated otherwise, assigned to the 7th Battalion C Company and identified as follows:- Colour Sergeant William Baker 290 - Prior to enlistment at Essendon was serving with the 58th Battalion. He embarked Australia on the 21/10/14. Brothers Charles POWLEY 347 and John Hall POWLEY 348 from Boweya - Embarked 19/10/14 on HMAT Hororata. Charles aged 21 years KIA 25/4/15 at Gallipoli and John returned to Australia on 31/10/15. Charles attended Wangaratta High School. John Crocker 346 was born at Clunes and enlisted at Broadmeadows. He was 36 years old, a butcher by trade and served with the 2nd Scottish Horse in the Boer War. His mother was listed as next of kin residing in Bracknell Tasmania He was wounded at Gallipoli and discharged on 19/1/1917 Nelson Albert Hardy 363 Born in England and a butcher by trade .KIA 23/8/1915 at Gallipoli aged 22 Edward Fahey 364 Ovens Street Wangaratta, Aged 29 years, a Painter by trade. He returned to Australia in December 1915 and appointed a Recruiting Sergeant. He resigned from this position on 8/5/1916, went AWOL and on 21/7/1920 discharged due to desertion. Joseph Cowham 360 enlisted at Broadmeadows on 19/8/1914. Thomas Peter Williams 404 - Aged 24 and a Blacksmith. He received a gunshot wound to the wrist on 26/5/1915 and returned to Australia. Joseph Nathaniel O'Brien 376 or John William O'Brien 365 both of Rowan Street Wangaratta Handwritten on rear “Wangaratta Boys C Company 7th Battalion October 11th 1914 From Private John Crocker 346”Sepia photograph of 11 men six standing and five kneeling dressed in military uniform wearing forage cap with row of pine trees in background. Photograph is mounted on brown cardboard with handwriting across top border.Rear - Wangaratta Boys C Company 7th Battalion October 11th 1914 From Private John Crocker 346 Front - list of names handwritten in ink J Powly, Col Serg Baker? Corp Naldress?, Private Couham?, C Powly, L Williams N Hardy J Crocker, E Lahy?, J?? K Jarrot? wangaratta, c company, joseph cowham 360, nelson hardy 363, john crocker 346, charles powley 347, john powley 348, hororata, gallipoli, edward fahey 364, thomas peter williams 404, william baker 290, joseph nathaniel o'brien 376, john william o'brien 365, ww1, 7th battalion -
Bendigo Military Museum
Document - DOCUMENT, SOLDIERS STORY WW2, Brenda M Tranter, "FROM GLOEGOER", 2013
Refer to Cat No. 7944. Item in the collection of "Arthur E. Tranter", V50166 - VX52843 2/29th Bn. P.O.W.Document - copy of a soldier's story from WW2. White colour paper with black print. Illustrated front page - black and white portrait of A.E. Tranter; and a colour cartoon on Page 30. 66 pages - cut, plain A4 paper. Loose pages stored in plastic sleeve.Information on title page (front page); "From Gloegoer/ A book written for his little daughter Brenda,/ between June 21, 1943 and / December 17, 1943/ by Lieut. Arthur E. Tranter, VX52843/ whilst a POW in Gloegoer, North Sumatra". "(included are two lectures by Lieut. Wessels, a Dutch POW, in October and November/ 1943, his notes)".document, booklet, ww2, arthur e tranter -
Bendigo Military Museum
Film - PHOTOGRAPHS
The photos belonged to Alf MASHELL VX25221 POW. They were given to Alf by a mate in Alf's unit, Sergeant D T MOORE who was also a POW & worked on the railway. Refer Reg No 2485 for Alf MASKELL's service history.Photos, black / white, copies of originals. The photos are a mixture taken during the building of the Burma Railway, DR's at work on the railway, the surrender in Singapore & the search after the War.pow’s, military, burma railway -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Hans Knorr
Hans Knorr was a sculptor, ex Arandoora Star and Dunera interned in Camp 1, Tatura group and later POW Camp 13 when status for merchant seamen changed to POW. Hans was a sculptor in wood and metal postwar Victoria.Black and white photograph of Hans Knorr. Brown/black wooden framearandoora star, dunera, internment camp 1, internment camp 13, hans knorr, internment camp sculptors, german sculptors -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Stone carving, Stone Carving of a pig playing flute, c.1943
Made by unknown Italian POW for the children of Cpl. McGlade.Painted figure of a pig playing the flute carved in to stone.sone carving, italian pow, camp 13, handcrafts, carving -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Audio - CD, Hans Wettl, 2004
Interview with former POW Hans Wettl in Vienna 2004.Plastic CD case. Silver cd.former pow's, hans wettl -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Box - copper, Von Hardenberg
Made by POW at camp 13 made by Von HardenbergHand crafted copper box with hinged lid. Lid lined with leather.camp 13 crafts, von hardenberg, adolf wilkie -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Kitbag, 1940s
Sent from Germany to survivor of Kormoran POW Camp13Circular canvas bag with reinforced base. Metal eyelets around top, threaded with ropeW. Elmecher 985tatura, personal, effects, travel, goods -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Folio Wartimes Camps, Italian Internees and Prisoners of War, c. 2000
Lists of Italian Pow's interned in Australia during WW2.List of names of prisoners of war held in Australia during WW2. Recollections "Voyage of an Alien" by Vittorio Tolaini.Black two ring folder with printed material enclosed in plastic sleeves. -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Sewing Kit, 1940's
Made at Camp13 by POW and used there as sewing repair kitHandmade fabric folding sewing kit with tapes for tying. Has piece of felt as lining with buttons of various sizes and colours attached. Main material is green in ncolour,innerlining is beige,felt maroon. Inside pocket is a piece of card wound with white thread. Label stitched with the words Red Cross, Qld Division, Australia and a redform of a cross in centredomestic, items, sewing -
Bendigo Military Museum
Uniform - PEAKED HAT
The Museum holds other items (POW) of "Vern Hufer".This is a British pattern peaked cap. It is of black wool. The peak is black leather. It has a red band around the crown and a thin red piece if piping around the top of the brim. Badge - a band of Oak leaves, a Crown at the top with two crossed swords in centre of Oak leaf wreath.Inside the plastic liner is a ticket with this on it:- A3/92041 CAPT. D.F.V. Hufer. Stamped underneath leather hat band is B.W.^D. ?04.vern hufer, ww2, vietnam war, passchendaele barracks trust -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Magazine, Wild Life, June 1947
Australian nature magazine featuring articles written by POW Adolf Wilke about bearded lizards. Title of article "My Prison Companions" (part 1). Part 2 C7685. Adolf was a POW at Camp 13 Murchison. Article page 207.Soft covered magazine stapled at spine, has black and white illustrations throughout. Front cover features red coloured flower heads (waratah). Title is also in red. Vol 8 no 6. Price 1/-.Miss Joan Graf, 25 Lothair Road, London N4 England Wilkeadolf wilke, my prison companions, camp 13 murchison, pow camps, australian nature magazine -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Railroad to Burma, 1991
Stamp - Thailand Hellfire Pass. (Ex POW project fund. See John W. Toon OAM, 11 LLoyd Ave Narre Warren 3805 - 7046866 John W Tooen VX 30397 Ex POW "D" force Thailand 1943. Soft cardboard cover. Illustrated, sepia photographs, black print, green print beige colour cover. Pages 198. Black and White photos.books-military-history, burma railroad -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Binder, Kurt Strassewski
Information relating to Kurt's time as an internee in Camp ?. Letters and cards to and from other ex POW's. Dossier on Kurt. The names of many other POW 's are mentioned. To be translated. Including some lovely sketches. ALL IN GERMAN. Document years 1981 and 1986.2 ring blue binder A4 size containing over 100 plastic sleeves each with a sheet of paper with typed information and some documents relating to Kurt Strassewski who was an internee in Camp. Including some lovely sketches. ALL IN GERMAN. Document years 1981 and 1986.kurt strassewski, german pow's -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph - copy, 1989
One of the many illicit stills used by POW's and internees in the camps.Black and white photograph. A primitive distilling machine several containers and bottles.loveday, south australia, opium crops, internment camp loveday -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Chest of Drawers, 1940's
Chest of drawers made by POW's and used in huts at war camps.Handmade wooden cupboard with 2 drawers at the top, 1 drawer beneath. 2 door opening to one shelved cupboard space. Cupboard is supported on 4 corner blocks of wood. Cupboard is painted brown, edged with white. Drawers and door have white paint handles. Handle missing from long drawer.chest of draws, internee wood work -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Leisure object - Board game - chess, Alfred Jahn, Chess Set, 1940's
used by POW's at camp 13, made by Albert Jahn, an internee.Carved wooden miniature chess set (31 pieces). 2 kings, 2 queens, 4 bishops, 4 knights, 4 rooks, 15 pawns. A khaki bag with a draw string top for storage. 15 pieces made of dark coloured wood. 16 pieces made of light coloured wood. (1 piece missing)albert jahn, chess set, miniature chess set, pow games, internment camp board games -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
sea bag, 1940s
Sent from Germany to survivor of "Kormoran" POW in Camp13 & GraytownCircular burgundy canvas bag. Two straps attached to side of bag, metal eyelets around top, threaded with leather lace. Small flap on toptatura, personal, effects, travel, goods -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Army Cooks, 1940
Dhurringile POW camp Army cooks, left is Sid BradfordBlack and white photograph of three cooks in white traditional uniform. Bucket atop two on ground. Behind is a tank stand.dhurringile pow camp, dhurringile cooks, army cooks, sid bradford -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Record - gramaphone, Marc Roland "Parade march der Langen Kerls, 13.3.41
Possession of POW in Camp 13, Murchison.Recording of Nazi wartime marchCircular 78 musical record (German) On label in centre is written "Grossdeutscher Rundfunk" above logo (eagle over swastika) Dated 13.3.41. Music by Marc Roland "Parade march der Langen Kerls". In brown paper sleeve. Record details on separate paper slip.64102Rtatura, musical, grammaphone records -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Camp 13 Reunion
Camp 13 Murchison Reunion of ex guards and pow's in 1974 1 Black and white photograph of Gerhard Kruger, wearing a tartan tie check shirt, pen in right hand. gerhard kruger, murchison, camp 13 murchison, camp reunions -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Camp Siren, 1940's
Used as a warning signal at the POW and Internee camps during WW2Camp Sirens - 2 bugle like sirens connected to a long bolt with a nut on one end of the bolt.siren, camp, merrigum museum, tatura, ww2 camps, security, alarms -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Vase
Object found at POW Camp 13. Used to hold flowersBrass shell case made into a vase with engraved palm tree design. Engraved into base are letters and numbers: F8 other unreadable marksvase, camp 13, murchison, tatura, metalcraft, brassware, harvey ponting snr -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Lieut. Commander Herbert Bretschneider
Identification Photo of German POW.|Lieut. Commander Herbert Bretschneider.Photograph found by Donor when cleaning up after departure of prisoners from Camp 13.photograph, people -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Unknown - Identification Disc, TANG Jong Hwa
Issued to internees/pow's as identification discs during internment in WW2.Brown Bakelite disk with hole punched in centre top. Identification information pressed into it.IJF 50308 TANG YONG HWAidentification discs, ww2 identification discs, internee identification disc, pow identification discs, major jim sullivan, tang jong hwa -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Unknown - Identification Disc, TJIOK Bik Ha
Issued to internees/pow's as identification discs during internment in WW2.Brown Bakelite disk with hole punched in centre top. Identification information pressed into it.IJF 50987 SEKI TJIOK BIK HAidentification discs, ww2 identification discs, internee identification disc, pow identification discs, major jim sullivan, tjiok bik ha -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Per non dimenticare
Contains information on internees and pow's who were interned in Australia. ring binder containing 231 pages of information. Front cover has black writing on a background of a plaque. Back page black. giovanni abbodino, gaetano agnello, emilio ascolese, giulio barbieri, rudolfo bartoli, raffaele bellezza, angelo brigada, ovidio bulfalini, amerigo campagna, carmelo caraccioli, domenico caruso, luigi casadio, guido cavagna, gino cherubini, nicola ciannella, giovanni ciccocioppo, salvatore cirilo, alessandro ciuccariello, antonio colletti, corrado crescenzio, martino d'aniello, cosomo de cataldo, vincenzo de furia, vito de santis, settimio di biagio, michele di conza, gaetano di damaso, gaetano di nino, antonio di pierro, nicola evangelista, angelo faa, bruno fabbri, bruno falai, giuseppe fazzino, luigi fiocchi, vincenzo foresti, luigi fornaroli, saverio foti, antonio fracasso, nicola francavilla, giuseppe frattari, rinaldo fronzoni, enzo galloni, rodrigo gammelli, gennaro gatta, ezio giorgini, antonio grego, domenico lanzano, francesco leone, natale lunghetti, francesco magri, pasquale mancuso, felice marasco, donato margarella, giuseppe mastroieni, eliso mattioli, mario menichelli, michelangelo merola, benedetto miele, stefano mola, pietro monfredi, salvatore morosillo, ugo morra, tommaso mosetti, domenico muscolino, agostino naibo, sante olivieri, alfredo oriolo, giuseppe pierro, arcangelo pignatelli, francesco primiano, antonio primoceri, antonio propati, domenico ramundo, antonino restuccia, alessandro rizi, carmine romano, giuseppe russo, michele salciccia, lodovico salvati, pietro salvati, michele sblendorio, antonio scabari, agatino scuderi, eugenio shivitz, cesare sottocorno, antonio spagnuolo, giuseppe spina, luigi sportelli, orlando vadolato, angelo venditti, cafiero veneri, cresimino viti, carmine vizzari, attilio zanier, giuseppe bassanelli, pasquale bottigliero, giovanni battista battaglia, giovanni cabrini, salvator caruso, erminia centonze, michele cordera, giovanni costa, giuseppe dani, giovanni de maria, michele fagiano, guglielmo fama, francesco fantin, giulio felloni, francesco ferrari, ernesto gandolfo, gino gavioli, girolamo giovainazza, marguerita interlandi, mario roberto librio, pietro lucchesi, graziano maio, giuseppe maresciallo, girolamo marina, fiore martinelli, pietro moscardini, raffaele musitano, pasquale pacitti, marco panozzo, giuseppe rossetto, ilario rossi, luigi sgiarovello, giambattista stasi, alfio torrisi, francesco marco turra, antonio villella, crescenzo divito, guido gonnella, louis jaconelli, riccardo massarelli, colombo riani, orlando ugolini, joanne tapiolas -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, AIR CREW 466 SQD, C. Originals 1944
Items in the collection re "Jack Mitchell". It is not sure if .1) was taken before the Mission. As per .2) The target was Berlin on 21.1.1944. There was 769 Aircraft on the mission which included 264 Halifax's of which 22 were lost. The Crew; Roger John Evans No 410202, Flt/Sgt, enlisted 5.12.1941 age 31 years. (refer Cat No 7467) John Henry Maunder No 412562, Flt/Sgt, (refer Cat No 7467) Jack Mitchell, Flt/Sgt, (refer Cat No 7467) F. Greenwood Sgt British RAF. Sidney Robert McDonald No 413239, P/O, enlisted16.8.1941 age 19 years 3 months. Keith Mossman Tranent No 426402, Flt/Sgt, enlisted 20.6.1942 age 19 years 2 months. (refer Cat No 7467) Patrick John Bourke No 426822, Flt/Sgt, enlisted 11.8.1942 age 21 years. (Later KIA on 11.4.1944, craft No HX274) Black & white photographs laminated. .1) Day light photo shows 7 Aircrew standing beside a Halifax Bomber before take off. .2) Night time photo showing 7 Aircrew standing beside a Halifax Bomber on return from a mission..1) "Jack Evans Flt/Sgt DFC, Jack Maunder Flt/Sgt KIA, Jack Mitchell Flt/Sgt POW, Frank Greenwood Sgt RAF, Bob McDonald Flt/Sgt, Keith Tranent Flt/Sgt POW, Pat Bourke Flt/Sgt KIA". .2) "Back from a raid on Berlin 21.1.1944. Same names but in a different order"photographs, 466, raaf, berlin -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Lamp, 1943
Made by Hans Knorr, sculptor, ex Arandora Star and Dunera. He was interned in camp 1 Tatura Group and later in POW camp 13, when status for merchant seaman changed to POW. Hans was, postwar, well known sculptor of wood and metals in Victoria.Wood turned lamp stand and material shade with electrical cord and plug attached. Stand has circular base on 3 feet and coiled central stand. Shade is shaped, scalloped at base of yellow and white (interior) nylon and wire frame.H/Lhilda knorr, hans knorr, camp 13, camp 1, internment camp sculptures, camp woodcraft