Historical information

Australian Chinese Servicemen from WW1 & WW2 photographs. Exhibition held at the Bendigo & District RSL, post 2010.

Physical description

1.2.3. Photographs on photographic paper, enlarged black and white portrait.
Mount - red and blue colour cardboard, double mount with top area containing the photograph, lower area printed information.
1. Serviceman in uniform, portrait.
2. Serviceman in uniform, portrait.
3. Two Servicemen in uniform, full length informal portrait, WW1.

Inscriptions & markings

Printed information - black ink print.
1. “GEORGE SANG” - served with the 17th Light Horse Regiment in Papua New Guinea, Bougainville and Darwin. He was a prisoner of war under the Japanese but managed to escape.
2. “SAM TONGWAY”enlisted on the 6th June 1917. He tried to enlist in 1916, but was rejected in medical grounds (regulations against those of a Chinese background). He embarked with Reinforcements to A.M.C. on the 6th May 1918. As an Army Signaller he transferred in Egypt to the Division Signalling Company in France in France with his brother Hedley. During World War 2 he served in the Air Training Corps.
3. “COLLIN YOUNG” shown here with his brother ELLIS, joined up in 1842 when he was seventeen and a half. He served in an artillery unit as an anti-tank gunner. With another artillery unit, he toured Queensland and New South Wales, then was posted to an anti-aircraft gun station in Darwin.