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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Tape- Audio, Walk through Graytown Camp & Cemetery- Side A|Italian POW escapee, Cowra.- \\side B, 1993
... Cowra POW camps... escapee from Cowra POW Camp 10 minutes.... interview with Italian escapee from Cowra POW Camp 10 minutes. audio ...Side a: Guided walk through Greytown camp and cemetery. Sgt Steve Anderson, guide, for Mrs Lindquist, A & L Knee. Side b: Continuation of cemetery walk 12 minutes; Radio interview with Italian escapee from Cowra POW Camp 10 minutes.audio tape 60 minutesGreytown Cemetery/ Italian POWaudio, greytown camp, greytown cemetery, italian escapee from cowra, cowra pow camps -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Dead Men Rising, 1951
... Cowra POW camps... Internment camps Cowra POW camps Soft covered novel based on Cowra ...Originally from South Shepparton Technical School library.Soft covered novel based on Cowra breakout by Japanese POW's.cowra breakout, japanese breakouts, cowra internment camps, cowra pow camps -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Japanese Officers
... Camp 13 in August 1944 after the suicidal breakout from Cowra... from Cowra POW Camp. camp 13 murchison camp cowra camp japanese ...Group of Japanese POW officer's being transferred to POW Camp 13 in August 1944 after the suicidal breakout from Cowra POW Camp.Black and white photograph stuck on coreflu backing depicting a group of men walking through a camp. Guard on the left, trees in background and hug to the back right.camp 13, murchison camp, cowra camp, japanese internees, cowra breakout. -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document, Cowra Times, Printer, A Cowra Breakthrough
... Photocopied article on Italian POW and guard at Cowra Camp.... POW's Photocopied article on Italian POW and guard at Cowra Camp ...Article in Cowra Times.Photocopied article on Italian POW and guard at Cowra Camp.cowra times, italian pow's -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document, Australian Military Forces, Australian Military Forces - Administrative Instruction, 6 September 1939 - 8 January 1945
An interesting insight of the precautions, management, location and distribution and re organisation and number and nationality of the 13,021 POW's in Hay, Cowra, Yanco, Murchison, Tatura, Dhurringile, Graytown, Myrtleford, Loveday SA, Woolenook and Marrinup WA. With a capacity of 23,465 less unguarded good and with token guard 1000 as at 8 January 1945A plastic folder, clear front page, 3 cm border left side extending as the back cover.top of page: "Australian Military Forces 3rd District command" top right hand corner: HQ 3rd District Base SECRET -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Phillips Publications, The 1944 Cowra Incident by Captain W. H. J. Phillips OAM Ed, 2002
Story of the Cowra incident in 1944Book by Captain W. H. J. PhillipsFrom the series Living Historycowra breakout, internment camps, japanese escape, pow;s -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Folder, Australian Military Forces, Australian Archives Brighton May 1991, revised May 1941
The interesting records of Japanese civilian internees in Camp 4. The Rev Len Kentish, pilot Hajime Toyashima and take to Cowra where he became one of the ringleaders of the infamous breakout and died during the attempt and made available with the efforts of the Knee family with the cooperation of the Australian Archives, also Shepparton News cutting, Keith Esson, Alan Fitzgerald. Italian farming soldiers.Seven Australian military forces internee/POW service and casualty forms, overprinted Japanese in individual plastic envelopes, clear plastic cover with a green border and back cover. Also the last page has details of the first Australian POW taken by Japanese on Australia soil and the first Japanese POW on Melville Island and captured by the aboriginals, one of who spoke fluent Japanese.On the green border - Australian Archives Brighton May 1991 Camp 4 Yasukichi and Terese Mupvakami and family internment camp records.rev len kentish, hajime toyashima, cowra, camp 4, keith esson, alan fitzgerald, italian farming soldiers, cowra breakout, shepparton news, japanese internees -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Hugh Clarke, Escape to Death
Purchased by T & D Historical Society.Paperback account of Cowra breakout by Japanese POW's 1944.Escape to Deathcowra breakout, japanese pow's, hugh clarke, camp 13 -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Cowra. The Night of a Thousand Suicides, 1935
White soft covered book with red and black printing. Red "rising sun". Previously called A Night of a Thousand Suicides.Cowra - The Night of a Thousand Suicides cowra, japanese pow's, japanese pow excapes -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Blankets on the Wire, 2006
... breakout of Japanese POW's from No 12 Camp in Cowra, NSW, on 5 ...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