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Bendigo Military Museum
Souvenir - RAILWAY SPIKE, C. WW2
Found at the site of the Rin Tin POW Camp in 2013. refer Cat No’s 3668 and 3669P.Railway spike, black metal, iron.souvenir, railway, burma -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph - copy, German Eagle on stone, 1989 copy
Copy of original black and white photograph of memorial to German POW's erected in grounds of Camp 13.Copy of black and white photograph. German eagle surmounting iron cross set in stone work. Garden beds on both sides. Tree and hut in background.camp 13, murchison victoria, internment camps, german pow's, interment camp memorials -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Painting - Watercolour, Georg Rosenkranz, Our Paymaster, 1941/2
Artist Georg Rosenkranz, crewman aboard the HSK Kormoran, painted this while at Graytown POW CampStylised watercolour painting of Graytown paymasterOur Paymastergraytown pow camp, georg rosenkranz, hsk kormoran, illustrations, watercolour -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Painting - Watercolour, Georg Rosenkranz, 75mm Gun, 1941/2
Artist Georg Rosenkranz, crewman aboard the HSK Kormoran, painted this while in Graytown POW CampStylised watercolour painting of Kormoran crewmen operating a 75mm gun75mm Gungraytown pow camp, georg rosenkranz, hsk kormoran, illustrations, watercolour -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Painting - Watercolour, Georg Rosenkranz, Riding a shark, 1941/2
Artist Georg Rosenkranz, crewman aboard the HSK Kormoran, painted this while at Graytown POW CampStylised watercolour painting of Kormoran crewman riding a shark.Riding a sharkgraytown pow camp, georg rosenkranz, hsk kormoran, illustrations, watercolour -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Painting - Painting - Watercolour, Georg Rosenkranz, The Camp Commandant of Graytown, 1941/2
Artist Georg Rosenkranz, crewman aboard the HSK Kormoran, painted this while at Graytown POW CampStylised watercolour painting of Graytown Camp leadergraytown pow camp, georg rosenkranz, hsk kormoran, illustrations, watercolour -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Painting - Watercolour, In the saw mill at Graytown, 1941/2
Artsit Georg Rosenkranz, crewman aboard the HSK Kormoran, painted this while at Graytown POW CampStylised watercolour painting of the Graytown mill.In the Saw Mill at Graytowngraytown pow camp, georg rosenkranz, hsk kormoran, illustrations, watercolour -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Sketch - Pastel, Georg Rosenkranz, Loading a torpedo on Kormoran, 1941/2
Artist Georg Rosenkranz, crewman aboard the HSK Kormoran, drew this while at Graytown POW Camp.Framed pastel sketch of crewmen loading a torpedo aboard the HSK KormoranLoading a torpedo at "Kormoran"georg rosenkranz, graytown pow camp, hsk kormoran, illustrations, pastel -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Record - gramaphone, Titanin-Marsh by composer Karl Stork, 1941
Possession of POW in Camp13 Murchison. Recording of Nazi wartime march. Title translates to "March of the Titans".Circular 78 musical record (German) WW2 on label in centre is written: Grossdeutscher Rundfunk above logo (Eagle over swastika), dated 13.3.41,"Titanin-Marsh" by composer Karl Stork. In brown paper sleeve. Recorddetails on separate paper slip64104Rtatura, musical, instruments, accessory -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Beyond All Hate, 2006
Written by Major James Sullivan to record the setting up and history of Japanese POW's in Camp 4Red hard cover book gold printing on the spine and front cover. beyond all hate, camp 4, tatura, ww2 -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document, merchant seamen officers interned first in Camp 1
List of merchant seamen officers interned first in Camp 1, then Dhurringile following their reclassification as POW's. -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Waranga Quarry
Original painting owned by Norm Appleby. Painting by Camp 13 POW. H.Hartmann.|Waranga Quarry.Norm Appleby, son of Lieut., Acting Captain Austin Appleby, 8th. Field Reg. & 5th. Aust. Anti-Aircraft Reg. 1945-1947,photograph, painting -
Bendigo Military Museum
Accessory - NOTEBOOK, c.1941
The notebook contains a list of KIA, WIA, Missing, & POW's during April 1941. Book belonged to Allan Frederick LEACH VX13568 2/8th Batt AIF. He enlisted on 2.3.1940 & taken POW on Crete. He was discharged from the 2nd AIF on 31.8.1945. He also held two other Regt No's, 373749 and VX504180..1) Cardboard case covered in leatherette cloth. .2) Army Field notebook insert..2) No 153.documents, military, notebooks -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Magazine, Wild Life, July 1947
Australian nature magazine featuring articles written by POW Adolf Wilke about bearded lizards. This is the second part of "My Prison Companions" (part 1 C7684) Adolf was a POW at Camp 13 Murchison. Original articles was translated from German by Captain Llewellyn Seal, of Army Intelligence and is about bearded lizards. Page 245.Soft covered magazine stapled at spine, has black and white illustrations throughout. Front cover features bird on tree limbs with seed in its beak. Orange splash on birds wings. Title is also in orange. Vol 9 no 7. Wilkeadolf wilke, my prison companions, camp 13 murchison, pow camps, australian nature magazine, bearded lizards, captain llewellyn seal -
Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - BOOKLET, Estimated 1989
On 5.4.43 after a bombing run over Meiktila in central Burma two Blenheim bombers collided with the result that the crews of both planes were either KIA or taken POW. W/O David Thomas Andrew 400247 RAAF KIA, P/O George Atkinson Foster 407418 RAAF KIA, F/O Harvey Besley "MM" 402942 POW, F/O Edward Francis Appleton 400067 KIA, F/L William Roland Matheson 406253 POW, W/O Thomas Joseph Wixted 404225 KIA. Refer 2085, 2088 re David Andrew. Booklet "Fortunes of War". White cover with B & W photos of Airmen and Aircraft. The book is mainly about an incident in 1943 in the air war over Burma involving David Andrew 400247 RAAF. 28 pages."C. Jean Pattison 7 Bannister St Bendigo" " Ted Wixted 23." (Date unclear)books, military, history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Booklet - BOOKLET WW1, POW, William E Thomason, March to Ranau, 1989
March to Ranau, Australian Servicemen at Sandakan, Borneo 1943 - 1945.Soft cardboard cover, black print front & back. Green background, front cover illustration is a line drawing of men in jungle scene by Iain Glanville. Back cover illustration certificate.Handwritten in blue ink on title page: “W E Thomason Nov 1989”booklet, pow, ranua, sandakan -
Bendigo Military Museum
Award - MEDAL, USA POW, Post WWII
United States of AmericaUSA Prisoner of War Medal, minature with ribbon on a pin.numismatics-medals-military, metalcraft, pow, passchendaele barracks trust -
Bendigo Military Museum
Accessory - LIGHT SHADE WW2, 1930's
The item was taken by J.P MURPHY VX17294, 2/29th Bn A.I.F while a P.O.W. Refer Cat No 1090 for his service history.Glass light shade taken from a cellblock in Changi Prison. The glass is clear all through. Shape is more oval than round.lighting - accessories, changi, murphy, pow -
Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - TRENCH ART TIN WW2, 1941 -45
L / Cpl J.P Murphy VX17294 2/29th BN A.I.F P.O.WTin, Aluminium, Rectangular Shape with hinged lid. The top of the lid is engraved with a scene with central plaque with details re J.P Murphy" 2/29 Bn J.P.M A.I.F"containers, personal effects, murphy, pow -
Bendigo Military Museum
Mixed media - NEWSPAPER CLIPS - CARDS, 1942 - 1945
Walter Forbes VX953 AASC 6th Div AIF. Refer 1101, 1103.44, 1106. Brown cardboard piece with the following pasted on. Colour postcard cartoon featuring a soldier on a camel . B&W Cartoon of a soldier on a motorbike. Newspaper clip re A.I.F Liberated P.O.W's from Germany, includes W.FORBES. Small B&W inset paper photo of W.FORBES. Newspaper clip re "Roy Rene" (Mo) who is impersonated by W.Forbes in the P.O.W Camp in Germany.documents - newspapers, military history - army, forbes, pow -
Red Cliffs Military Museum
Razor, Service Shaving Razor WW11, (estimated); 1940 -1945
Razor is part of the A.J. Roddy CollectionAluminium & steel Service razor -No Blade. Handle finshed in knurlingA.S.& Co R45ww11, pow, a j, roddy -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Unframed Photograph, Captured Italian Lorries - WWI
Black and white photo of Italian lorries.On back: 23. Captured Italian lorries with Italian food for Italian prisoners. Publicity section British Embassy Cairo. A.1005wwi, pow, italian, lorries -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph - copy, 1988
Photographed at Exhibition of Camp Memorabilia displayed at Temper Home for Aged, Bayswater, Victoria, in 1981.Colour photograph. Variety of tools made from whatever material one could lay one's hands on. Negative no 20.hand crafts, pow, internment camp, hand tools -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Arthur Knee, 1989
Camp 13, concrete pit, rolled barbed wire, near site of Camp 13 administration area.Camp 13, Camp Road, Murchison, Victoria. Concrete pit and tangled barbed wire.camp 13, murchison victoria, pow, internment camp -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph - copy, D. Clark, German Cemetery Tatura, 1989 copy
German War Cemetery showing gates and flag poles, grave in back ground. Remains from all over Australia for reburial. World War 2 section opened on 16 November 1958. Memorial service held every year. Original photo held by R & L Kuhnle.Black and white photograph of German Cemetery, Tatura, showing gates and flag poles, grave in back ground. on back - German War Cemeterypow, german war cemetery, tatura victoria, ww2 -
Bendigo Military Museum
Certificate - VARIOUS CERTIFICATES, 1) 9.1.1946 .3) & .4) 12. 4.1962
Items issued to Arnold Oakley JORDAN No TX3528 (Tasmanian) POW. Refer 176 for his service history..1) Tobacco Ration Card. Off-white in colour, Area Canteens re TX3528, JORDAN, A.O. Pte. 9.1.46 - 6.2.46. .2) Small canvas cover, brown back with plastic front, black sewn edging. .3) War Pension Certificate, fawn in colour, stamped and folded. No 593, Certificate No X5175. .4) War Pension Certificate, fawn in colour, stamped and folded. No 592, Certificate No 5174.personal effects, documents, certificates, canteen -
Bendigo Military Museum
Painting - PAINTING PRINT, FRAMED, Post WW2
Doctor “Weary” Dunlop as he was known was an Australian Doctor well known for his work as a POW of the Japanese.Brown & gold ornate timber frame. Photographic print of a painting, 3/4 length portrait of SIR EDWARD (WEARY) DUNLOP dressed in a lounge suit. Australian flag draped, bunch of flowers, book on table in the background. Signature in gold print bottom R corner.photography-photographs, frame accessories, doctor, weary dunlop -
Bendigo Military Museum
Certificate - SHIRE CERTIFICATE, FRAMED, 9th June 1941
Merton Charles WILLOUGHBY VX54056 2nd AIF, POW. Refer Cat No 1115 for his service details.Shire of Waranga. Sapper M. C. Willoughby. illuminated certificate commemorating voluntary service signed by resident councillor, Shirt Secretary Black wooden Frame with gilt inner edge.shire cerrtificates, waranga, ww2, -
Bendigo Military Museum
Postcard - POSTCARD POW, C.1941 - 45
Sent by Ron MORRELL4985826 who was a POW in Changi and on the Burma Railway Sent from Camp 4 in ThailandGey coloured Post card Japanese Army Japanese Army issue.postcards japanese, pow’s, -
Montmorency/Eltham RSL Sub Branch
Letter - Burma Railway Memorial – Explanatory Letter
Hellfire Pass was a location on the Burma Railway which POWs constructed under instructions from Japanese military.Letter from Kevin Myers who was a member of the team that constructed the memorial at Hellfire Pass in 1989.