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Australian Prisoners of War 1941-1945 (Book)

This is a part of the series, Australians in the Pacific War. It gives a narrative and pictorial account of life in POW camps north of Australia during World War II. Includes Changi, the Burma-…

Bart Richardson - World War II veteran (Army) (Video)

Barton (Bart) Richardson enlisted at Rutherford, New South Wales, in June 1940.

Bill Ennis - World War II veteran (Video)

Bill Ennis was 18 years old and working as a clerk when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in June 1940.

Burma-Thailand Railway and Hellfire Pass

Massive infrastructure projectHerculean tasks were enforced upon semi-starved and enfeebled captives.

Endurance: Stories of Australians in wartime captivity (Book), (Educational)

This commemorative publication is a part of the Century of Service series. It explores the stories of several Australians who were captured as prisoners of war. Each story highlights examples of…

Ernest Edward Dunlop

An Australian hero...everyone that came in front of Weary - a no-hoper, anybody, was a person. And he was an equal of Weary's in Weary's mind — he was a person to be helped.

Fall of Singapore: In Their Own Words (Video), (Online lesson), (Student activity), (Educational)

Hear from Australian veterans about their experiences of the Fall of Singapore during World War II.

Gordon Jamieson - World War II veteran (Video)

Gordon Jamieson was just 19 years old when he enlisted in July 1940.

Jack Thomas - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Jack Thomas - World War II veteran (Video)

Jack Thomas was born in Broken Hill on 4 November 1919. He worked as a grocer's assistant before enlisting in Broken Hill in June 1940.

James Kerr - World War II veteran (Army) (Video)

James Kerr was underage when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in March 1941. He was accepted, nevertheless.

Mixed feelings as POWs waited to be released

Every day that Australians spent as prisoners of war they longed for freedom. They thought about family and friends at home and just hoped to survive for the end of the war.

Norman Anderton - World War II veteran (Video)

Norman joined the army in Sydney in 1940 at the age of 19, and served in the 8th Division Signals.

Prison camps near Hellfire Pass

Camps for Allied prisoners of war and rōmushaThis system of marching battalions into unprepared jungle camps was the [Japanese] policy … in this initial monsoon period

Prison camps of F Force

Hardship and death for Allied prisoners of warIf ever I see home again … I want nothing more … than to forget these awful days—swollen bodies, bloated from beriberi, walking sk

Prisoners of War: In Their Own Words (Online lesson), (Video), (Student activity), (Educational)

Hear Australian veterans share their harrowing experiences of captivity during the Second World War.

Recovering Australia's war dead in Burma and Thailand

The first [cemetery] with 146 graves had sufficient of the original crosses still legible for location to be simple … The cholera cemetery was hard to find … Finally … we

Remembering Australian POWs and the Burma-Thailand Railway

Australian memoriesIn the decades since 1945, prisoners of war (POWs) and the Burma-Thailand Railway occupied a central pla

Robert Goodwin - World War II veteran (Video)

Robert 'Bob' Molesworth Goodwin OAM was an insurance clerk in Brisbane before he enlisted in July 1940 with the Australian Imperial Force (AIF).

Roy Cornford - World War II veteran (Video)

Roy Cornford, a 19-year-old labourer, enlisted into the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in September 1941

Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop

The men would do anything for him and are proud to be with him.

Two working men, Konyu River Camp: Expressions - Commemoration through Art (Online lesson), (Student activity), (Educational)

A printable activity sheet to help develop students' understanding of wartime artworks. British soldier and artist Jack Bridger Chalker created this drawing in 1942. In World War II, Chalker was…

Weary Dunlop: Stories of Service (Online lesson), (Video), (Student activity), (Educational)

Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's story is one of care, compassion, hardship and suffering. Weary enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force after studying medicine. This tells his story as an army doctor…
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