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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document, Ern Whitmore, Loveday Internment Group Barmera SA, 28 February 1946
A concise and interesting story of the Loveday internment group Barmera SA with first hand knowledge and donated to the Museum by its author Ern Whitmore, born 1899. The forward by Lt. E. T Dean DSO VD is particularly worthy of note.A 32 page manuscript each enclosed in an individual clear plastic envelope. The top half of the front page "internment in South Australia" which is superimposed on an indistinct plan of probably be an internment camp. The lower half has a sentry with rifle in a sentry box overlooking a camp at night. On the bottom right hand corner a self adhesive sticker for the inscription on it and that inserted over the 3 cm red flap extension of the back plastic page.Internment in South Australia on the self adhesive sticker hand written "History of Loveday POW and Internment Camps" by Ern Whitmore and on the border the same as in inverted commas plus Bert Whitmore recollections.internment camps, loveday internment camp, barmera south australia, ern whitmore, lt e t dean -
Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - PHOTOGRAPH, c.1941
Item with the collection of Cyril John JOHNSON VX 36298 died as a POW of the Japanese. Refer 3144 for his service history.Sepia portrait of Cyril Johnson 2nd AIF. Soldier in uniform with slouch hat. Frame is yellowish cardboard sitting inside a perspex stand.VINCENT KELLY BENDIGOphotography, framing -
Bendigo Military Museum
Award - MEDAL
Item with the collection of Cyril John JOHNSON VX 36298 died as a POW of the Japanese. Refer 3144 for his service history.Medal, Australian Prisoner of War, set on a black cardboard backing.PRISONER OF WARmedals, military, prisoners of war -
Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - BADGE, post WWII
Item with the collection of Cyril John JOHNSON VX 36298 died as a POW of the Japanese. Refer 3144 for his service history.Badge, circular, Mothers & Widows, depicting a woman with wreath. Under via 2 small links is a clasp with 1 star depicting 1 son lost in the war.On front: FOR AUSTRALIA On rear: A17189 AMOR SYDNEYbadges, military, sacrifice -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book, John Castle, The Password is courage, 1956_
Story of Charles Coward, a British POW who carried out sabotage and resistance activities in various camps including Auschwitz.286 p. pbk.prisoner of war camps, world war 2 -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Artwork, other - Puppet, Crocodile
The puppets were made by German POW's in camp 13 and sent to internment camp 3 as gifts for the children at Christmas time.Hand painted green paper mache head. Teeth and inside of jaw painted red with red fabric lining at back of jaw. Black painted eyes. The body is of green fabric, hand stitched to leather which is tacked to the crocodiles head.hand puppets, internment camp hand crafts, pow puppets, sharon lohe, ww2 camp puppet theatre, crocodile puppet -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Instrument - Jew's harp
Made by a camp 13 POW and given to Private Alan Cunningham, V17394, a guard at camp 13. Harp was made in England.Small harp shape made from metal.Made in Englandjew's harp, private alan cunningham, camp 13 guards, murchison camp guards -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Train watching at Barmera SA, 1989 copy
This was a train that brought internees and POW's to the Loveday Camps at Barmera South Australia. The train and guards are preparing to depart, south of Barmera.Black and white photograph. Train extended full width of the photograph. Several men "guards" standing in the foreground.internees, pow's, loveday camp, internee camps south australia, pow transportation, barmera sa -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document, Henry Lippmann, May 1990
The 50th Anniversary edition of the Dunera News and outlining the program of that reunion, and the brief history of their exciting trip , the Hay POW camp.A clear plastic folder with the inscription "Dunera News" - a quarterly publication , number 16 May 1990, above the cartoon caricature of a museum display.Dunera News50th anniversary dunera reunion -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Heinz Rass, 1940
Heinz Rass, POW Camp 13 Murchison. Photo sent to George Campbell War Historian. Guard Camp 13.photo of Luftwaffe pilot Heinz Rass in Germanyheinz rass, luftwaffe pilots, pow's murchison, camp 13 murchison -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document - Certificate of Registration of Alien Seamen, Viktor Aaltonen
Certificate of Registration of Viktor Aaltonen, Finnish Seaman interned in POW Camp 13 at Murchison during World War 2Copy of Certificate of Registration of Alien Seamen. Includes personal details such as: name, date of birth, hometown, physical description and fingerprints.camp 13, finnish, finnish seamen, viktor aaltonen -
Bendigo Military Museum
Literary work - AIF POW'S IN EUROPE, Post WW2
Item in the collection relating to John Eric Wiles VX16067, refer Cat No 5410P for his service details.Literary work all paper copy joined by a metal clip, all print in black, front has Rising Sun & map of Europe, 27 pages, contains lists of POW’s, casualties, some maps, story is based around the Greece, Crete campaign. On front a hand written note to say this version has been superseded.pow’s, greece crete, wiles -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Mixed media - USB (memory stick), Wilhelm Manzke
Wilhelm Manzke was a German POW held at Camp 13 Murchison Victoria during WW2. USB contains photographs of him prior to WW2, during WW2 as a POW, a family tree of him and his wife and their children, a photo album and letters sent to his wife whilst interned at Murchison. Compiled by his children. Also a copy of a document on the heritage of Murchison Camp 13 (C3594).Lexar usb (white with green plastic cover) containing photographs and information on Wilhelm Manzkewilhelm manzke, german pow, murchison camp 13, manzke family tree, hildegard manzke, hildegard marake -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, WW2, "Sandakan"
"SANDAKAN/ A conspiracy of Silence/ of the 2,434 prisoners massacred by/ the Japanese at the Sandakan POW camp, only 6, all escapees, have survived."Soft cover book. Cover - cardboard; green, blue, yellow and white colour print on front spine and book, illustrated, red colour round blotches on a mottled grey colour background. 400 pages, cut, plain white paper. Illustrated black and white photographs and maps. Title page - handwritten notations.Title page - handwritten notations - grey lead pencil "PSO 985/ ECEA" . Black ink "MS FRANK MARRIOTT".books, ww2, pows, sandakan, japan -
Bendigo Military Museum
Document - PROBATE NOTICE, 30/11/49
Item relates to Merton Charles WILLOUGHBY VX 54056, 2nd AIF, POW. Refer Cat No 1115 for his service details.Notice from Supreme Court of Victoria of Probate for the "Will" of MC Willoughby. Folded cream coloured paper with black text.documents-legal, probate -
Bendigo Military Museum
Accessory - STAMP AND TAG, 1939 -45
Items were collected by F.G.East, served WW1, WW11, POW. Refer 537 medals for service history also 516.7, 517..1) Stamp Japanese. Wooden base, Square metal molded stamp face. Japanese characters. .2) Metal Tag or Badge, aluminium front marked "9196". Japanese characters either side, rear two large Japanese characters.philately - date stamps/seals, numismatics - badges, japanese -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Claim for Special Allowance to Ex-Prisoners of War 1939-45
The book belonged to George Llewellyn Thomas VX58918 2nd AIF, POW. Refer 1075 for service history also 1073.2, 1074P. Soft cover book. Cover is cardboard. Book binding brown ..cloth tape with staples. Covers fawn coloured.Black printing on front cover. 131 pages, paper cut, plain & off white Inside cover on first page handwritten blue ink " G.L.Thomas./7 Creeth St./Long Gully,/Bendigo" book, history -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Work on paper - New Book released in Japan, a Reaction, 'Glorious memories' of death railway
A response to a perceived 'revisionist' history of Japanese military history released in Japan which includes a Japanese version of treatment of POW's in WW2shows attitudes in Australia and Japan 20 years after WW2 in response to a new Japanese bookSingle page from Sun NewspaperHand written on bottom Right: Currant (sic) Affairs. Am DGjapan. ww2 . revisionist history -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Cartridge
Found at POW camp 13 post war by war time guard. Contained in a gold coloured material covered display box.1 cartridge, brass base and part of cylinder cardboard remainder of cylinder with inside sight hole. unloaded. -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Arthur Knee, Camp 13 Decorative pond, 1989
Camp 13, Camp Road, Murchison. Water trough made by POW's. Cream concrete with white octagonal shapes on each side.Camp 13, Camp Road, Murchison, Victoria. Octagonal decorative concrete water trough, in green paddock. Cream concrete with white octagonal shapes on each side. -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Sculpture - Mould - concrete/death mask, Death Mask, 1940's
Death mask mould found in Camp 13 POW rubbish tip by former Army Garrison guard on a return visit to the camp.Concrete casting/death mask of a face, pitted, soiled, part of nose missingdeath mask, death mask mould, camp 13 rubbish tip -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document, Eildon Dam
Written by an engineer to give details of Eildon project and the part played by Ex German POW's in using German produced machinery (Krupp)Olive green cover, black spine. White label on fronteildon damtatura, burns f, tatura, irrigation, engineering, documents -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Leisure object - Dolls Furniture, 1940's
Made in Camp 3 by Mr. Alfons Koenig. Little presents such as these were made by POW's and supplied through the Red Cross presumably.9 parts of handmade furniture, handpainted, mainly floral designs in colours - red, blue, yellow, green and white. All parts fit together into a small packagefurniture, dolls, koenig a, uhlherr h, red cross, camp 3, tatura, ww2 camp 3, toys, doll -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Blankets on the Wire, 2006
This book tells the tragic story of the mass breakout of Japanese POW's from No 12 Camp in Cowra, NSW, on 5 August 1944Soft cover book, narrow red edge, grey background. Picture of war camp. Red text. Back cover 3 Cowra war camp photos on a red background. In Japanese and English.Blankets on the Wirejapanese breakouts, japanese pow excapes, cowra camp 12 -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Camp 13, German POW's
Camp 13, German POWs.|Back: Schafer; Schmitz; Knoll; Brune; Fischer.|Front: Langer; Sauebier; Ohliger; Saluschkar; Pieler?.photograph, people -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Swagger Stick, 1944-45
Made by a German POW about 1944-45 and given to WO11 R. E. O'Hara. R. E. O'Hara, father of the donor, was a WO11 in the POW camp. He left Tatura at the end of the war when he was posted to Manus Island for the war crimes trials against the Japanese. He continued in the Army until 1952. WO11 R. E. O'Hara VX5293. His rank on discharge was WO1 Dark brown wooden swagger stick with large knob on one end which depicts an inlaid map of Australia in a light colour with a brass crown insignia (bade of rank) inside the map of Australiawo11 r. e. o'hara., swagger stick -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Swagger Stick, 1944-45
Made by a German POW about 1944-45 and given to WO11 R. E. O'Hara. R. E. O'Hara, father of the donor, was a WO11 in the POW camp. He left Tatura at the end of the war when he was posted to Manus Island for the war crimes trials against the Japanese. He continued in the Army until 1952. WO11 R. E. O'Hara VX5293. His rank on discharge was WO1 Light coloured wooden swagger stick with large knob on one end which depicts a sphere in dark coloured wood inlaid at regular intervals with a light coloured wood. The top of the knob is covered by a brass crown (badge of rank).wo11 r. e. o'hara., swagger stick -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Norman G Manners, Bullwinkel, 1999
Details the story of Vivian Bullwinkel, sole survivor of a massacre of Australian nurses by the Japanese during WWII.Orange buckram hardcover book with title in gold on cover and spine. Red dust cover with image of nurses and inset colour picture of Vivian Bullwinkel in red, grey and white nurse's uniform. 239 plain paper pages with cut edges and illustrations.On front end paper "John W Bill Toon OAM. 8th Div AASC. Ex POW. VX30397. Siam Burma Death Railway Slave 1942-45" and "Donated by Bgo YMCA" books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Accessory - CIGARETTE CASE, Post 1941
The item was given to Capt R.A. Hanson VX111070 by Japanese POW's in camp in New Guinea. Refer Cat No 5646.3P for his service details.Cigarette case oval shape aluminium, made from an aeroplane strut, each end is covered in perspex, two parts slide together over an inner section, all around has been hand engraved withJapanese symbols, ladies in bathers, mountains and palms."Japanese symbols"accessory, cigarettes, trench art -
Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - MEMORIAL PLAQUE, ENVELOPE, CONTAINER, Post WW1
Lieut William Edwin Cook No 15090 Yorkshire Regt, died of wounds and pnemonia as a POW 24.4.1916. Refer 398P, 399.2, 401, 419..1) Comemorative plaque, brass, round, Re W.E. Cook. Brittania centre with Lion and Seals, Rectangular space for individual name. .2) Envelope, Yellowish colour. square with "Seal" imbossed on back of envelope, holds 1.) for postage. .3) Cardboard postage pack, dark brown, rear folds in. holds .1) & .2) for postage..1) "He died for Freedom and Honour, William Edwin Cook." commemorative, military, history,, plaques memorial