Stories
Affadavits
Affadavit by Geoffrey Thomas UNDERWOOD re death of WX27066 Bill Dwyer
AFFIDAVIT – HUGH WILKES AT OMUTA
Reibe Affidavit – Nikhe Camp
RICHES AFFIDAVIT ‘D’ Force V Battalion
Affidavit Tom Hampton
Affadavits from Fukuoka No. 1 Camp Japan
Affidavit Jim DORE ‘Wales’ Maru to Japan
JEFFERY Affidavit re Bill Dwyer-Brankassi, Thailand & Runge-Japan
Ramsbottom Affidavit
DORE AFFADAVIT OF KAWASAKI CAMP, JAPAN
Fitzgerald Affadavit Nacompassi/Nakom Chassi Thailand
WX13562 Moate, Peter Affadavit – Hintok Camp Bashings
Ken Vidler’s Affidavit
Affidavit from A J Hambley WX10745 – Fukuoka sub-Camp 17
Japan’s 1942 Invasion of Burma and capture of vital Airfields
Krasnostein Affidavit regarding Beatings POWs Fukuoka sub-Camp No. 17, Omuta, Japan and in particular his own beating in April 1945
Colevas WX10609 Affadavit AWM 54 1010/4/34
Affidavit War Trials. Hinnrichsen, Frank WX8198 from Kawasaki-Kobe House (Osaka area)
John Leahy’s account of life at Osaka Camp No. 9, Notagawa, Japan.
Camps
105 KM CAMP, BURMA – THE DESPAIR OF POWS
PUDU GAOL, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYA
Omuta & its Mafia – just when you thought you have read the worst story!
POWS from Sumatra Flown to Perth
Sandakan – Ranau – Detailed Map of Camps – Portrait Photos of Soldiers
Showa-Denki – One of the Kobe Factories
Nacompaton Hospital Camp, Thailand
Java & POW Camps
HAKENSHO – FUKUOKA SUB-CAMP NO. 9 – Roy Deveson and William ‘Pop’ Davey
Hindaine Camp 10.7.1943 – 31.8.1943
Kobe House, Japan (Central Story)
The Singapore POW Camps
Korea – JAPAN ‘B’ FORCE – Destination for Ted Roots, Jack Taylor, Jim Clancy, Bill Gray and Hubert ‘Dutchy’ Holland
KILOMETRE CHART OF THE THAILAND-BURMA RAILWAY
Adam Park Revisited
Company
Reinforcements -2/4th Machine Gun Battalion 15 Feb 1942
SOLDIERS WHO REINFORCED 2/4TH PLATOONS OTHER THAN ‘E’ COY SAILED AQUITANIA
X BATTALION – LT COL BOYES – SINGAPORE WW2
‘B’ COMPANY 7 PLATOON 2/4TH MGB
‘Don’ Company – Fall of Singapore – 12 Feb 2023 Service Kings Park
DON ‘D’ COMPANY HEADQUARTERS
DON COMPANY 14 PLATOON
88TH L.A.D. (LIGHT AID DETACHMENT)
‘B’ COMPANY, 8 PLATOON
4 AUG – 6 SEP 1945 by Tom BUNNING, CHANGI POW CAMP
MEN OF ‘E’ COMPANY SRB (SPECIAL RESERVE BATTALION) 2/4th MGB
‘A’ Company, No. 4 Platoon
Headquarters Company No. 2 Platoon Anti Aircraft
‘D’ Company No. 15 Platoon
‘C’ Company No. 12 Platoon
‘D’ Company (No 16 Platoon) – Vickers Machine Gun Companies – Central Story
‘D’ Company No. 13 Platoon & Lim Chu Kang Road 8th February 1942
Doctors
CAPT JACOB MARKOWITZ, RAMC
SCRUB TYPHUS & death ALBERT CRYER, THAILAND 1943
BLACKWATER FEVER
DR PETER HENDRY, MO ‘F’ FORCE – NEIKHE, LOWER SONKURAI, SONKURAI
Dr Phil Millard saves Tom Hampton’s life
MILLS, Dr Roy – Pond’s Party, ‘F’ Force Thailand
Service for 80th Anniversary Fall of Singapore
13TH AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL, 8TH DIVISION
PAVILLARD, Capt. Stanley Septimus (Medical Officer, Straits Settlement Volunteer Forces)
Weary Dunlop – Misery of POW Camps
Dr Rowley Richards -one of 42 Australian Doctor POWs on Burma-Thai Railway.
Captain David Clive Critchley HINDER NX76302 2/19th Battalion – Medical Officer Thailand & Japan
Khonkan Hospital 55km – William (Bill) Hood WX7471, Tom Davison WX7909, Allan Bamford WX8485 – Khonkan 55 Km Hospital Camp
TANBAYA HOSPITAL CAMP – 50 KILO CAMP, Burma 1943 & MAJOR BRUCE HUNT, MEDICAL OFFICER (MO) ‘F’ FORCE
Dr Albert Coates & Dr Claude Anderson
The remarkable Dr Phil Millard, Kanu No. 2 Camp – by Mick Wedge
Captain Claude L Anderson WX3464
Events of War
Execution of WX16675 Rupert John MILLBROOK & WX7336 Harold Bertram OCKERBY 19 FEB 1942
2/4th Soldiers evacuated to Australia prior to commencement Singapore fighting 1942
WX23079 Bravery & Tragic death of Ron ELLIS, Wagin – 2/4th MGB
X BATTALION – LT COL BOYES – SINGAPORE WW2
SONKURAI WAR TRIALS 1946 – ‘F’ FORCE THAILAND
Read Capt Fred Stahl’s description of conditions on ‘F’ Force Thailand
AUSTRALIAN POWs OF ITALY/GERMANY WW2 – incarcerated Italy
Hiroshima’s First Year High Students die in Atom Bomb 1945
JOHHNY FUNK, SANDAKAN, VISITS WA
COMFORT WOMEN for Japan’s WW2 Armed Forces
Japanese Delegation walks out 1933 League of Nations Assembly
‘Don’ Company – Fall of Singapore – 12 Feb 2023 Service Kings Park
DUTCH HOSPITAL SHIP ‘ORANJE’ ARRIVES WITH 800 POWS DARWIN SEP 1945
Makassar POW Camp, Celebes
JAVA PARTIES to SUMATRA 1944 (To build SUMATRAN RAILWAY)
TENGAH AIRFIELD, Battle for SINGAPORE 1942
Execution – Mr Vivian Gordon Bowden, Australian Trade Commissioner – Muntok, Bangka Island, 17 Feb 1942
Japanese Atrocities Against Nurses Hong Kong 1942
BANKA ISLAND MASSACRE 1942 – 80th Anniversary 2022 & West Australian Nurses Alma Beard, Peggy Everett Farmaner, Minnie Hodgson & Bessie Willmott & Survivors Vivian Bulwinkel & Ellen Hannah
Changi Chocos
BOMBING RAIDS OVER THAILAND – B-24s Liberators
FIRE-BOMBING of TOKYO MARCH 1945 by B-29s – Single most destructive bombing in history
‘CLARK GABLE’
How to address your letters to POWs 1943
Execute all allied POWs once the invasion of Japan begins
BLACKBURN, ARTHUR, VC – ‘BLACKFORCE’ JAVA 1942
Service for 80th Anniversary Fall of Singapore
80th ANNIVERSARY PEARL HARBOUR 7 DEC 2021
British Military Mission 204 – Bush Warfare School, Burma
‘E’ COMPANY SRB – SEARCH FOR BODIES DECEMBER 1942
Fall of Singapore Service 14 Feb 2010 – Kings Park
CHRISTMAS FOR POWS
ATOMIC BOMB HIROSHIMA – 6 August 1945
Fall of Singapore – 20 years later
POWs of WW1
How Singapore Fell – The West Australian big weekend Saturday Feb 9 2002 – Rod Moran report
From Hell to Eternity – WA Gunners nightmare of battle and Prison Torture
Singapore’s Defence Plan Feb 1942
Victoria Point, Burma – Major Green
Successful bombing raid May 1945 steel bridge, Tamarkan
Fremantle Port was Second Largest Submarine Base during WW2
BOONPONG SIRIVEJCHAPAN – saviour of many sick POWs
Atomic Bomb – ‘West Australian’ September 1945
SANDAKAN – Newspaper reports
Atom Bomb Nagasaki – Jack Maude’s memories – Fukuoka sub-Camp No. 24 Sendyu
Aussie Mateship by Otto Kreefft
Borneo Sep 1945 – Owen Colin Campbell one of 6 survivors – 600 Australian POWs reported died
The 1945 Bombing of Kobe
Tanjong Priok, Java Feb ’42 Blackburn & Soldiers of 2/2nd, 2/3rd. etc.
Report on urgency of recovering POWs in Japan
Northam to Perth March
Original 2/4th Flag
Leave Denied
Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra
Japanese Atrocities
Honours and Awards
Members of 2/4th nominated for Medal but not awarded
Lesley William McCann WX17837 Escape From Death
Hill 200, Ulu Pandan IV (Mapanyang) 12th February 1942
Adam Park – Recovery of bodies at Hill 200
Selarang Barracks Changi & 2/4th story
Two Came Home – The Firing Squads
‘E’ Company, Special Reserve Battalion by Major Bert Saggers – South West Bukit Timah, 11th February 1942
Force & Work Parties
‘E’ COY – SRB PRESENTED 82ND ANNIVERSARY FALL OF SINGAPORE SERVICE – POW MEMORIAL, KINGS PARK Sunday 11
PACK OF CARDS BRIDGE, Hintok, Thailand WW2
Reg Jarman NX33194 ‘F Force Orderly
WORK PARTIES AT CHANGI CAMP – 1942-45
‘F’ Force Thailand Diary QX6306 Captain Fred Stahl, 8th Div Signals
JAVA PARTY NO. 20 – MCASKIL
JAVA PARTY 22 – Banks & Booth
Jimmy Quinn’s Red Hot Toilets & Cooked Flies
‘C’ Company 10 Platoon
‘C’ COMPANY, HEADQUARTERS – 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, 8th Division WW2
PONDS’ PARTY – LT. COL POND 2/29th Battalion AIF, 8th Division
H6 OFFICER’S PARTY
‘D’ Force V Battalion Group 6 – Brankassi, Kuii, Hindaine.
SUMATRA – Atjeh Party & ‘Harujkiku’ Maru – SS Van Waerwjick Party- Central Story
‘D’ Force Thailand, S Battalion (incl. T Battalion) – Central Story
‘J’ FORCE to JAPAN & ‘WALES MARU’ PARTY (Central Story)
‘D’ Force S & T Battalions, Thailand
SUMATRAN RAILWAY – Pakan Baroe – Moearo Railway Line
‘Awa Maru’ Story
‘H’ Force Group No 3 – H3 & H6 Officers Party
X, P & W, PARTIES & AERODROME LEVELLING PARTY, JAHORE BAHRU TUNNELLING 1944-45
Java Party No 3 & 4 – Black & Williams Forces – Williams No. 1 Mobile Force – Central Story
‘B’ and ‘E’ Forces, Borneo – SANDAKAN to RANAU – Central Story
The ‘Both’ story – SAIGON PARTY, French Indo-China
‘Aramis’ Story – To Japan
Capt Fred Harris Party & WO II John Dooley Party
POWS from Sumatra Flown to Perth
Black and Williams Forces – Java Parties No.s 3 and 4
Dunlop Force – Java Party No. 6 – O and P Battalions
Robertson Force, Java Party 5A
“Six out of 2500 escaped to tell the tale.”
‘A’ Force Burma – Green Force No. 3 Battalion
‘D’ FORCE, U BATTALION – ‘Roaring Reggie’ NEWTON
‘F’ FORCE THAILAND
AWOL ‘Aquitania’ Fremantle – ‘Blackforce’ Java – Central Story
Sandakan Marches
Bukit Timah & Johore Bahru POW Work Parties
Changi Camps – Work Parties
Puffin Magic – ‘Puff, Puff Makin’ for Road works at Singapore Golf Course
Leadership
WX9392 Lt. Milton Eric WANKEY Awarded Military Cross
BRITAIN’S SINGAPORE FORTRESS WW2
WX3435 LT-COL CHARLES EDWARD GREEN, MBE
VX48789 KAPPE, Lt. Col Charles Henry ‘Gus’ – C.O. ‘F’ Force Thailand, Australian POWs
MRS. L.G. RICHES VOLUNTEERED HER TIME & WAS DEDICATED TO THE WELL-BEING OF POWS
Brigadier Duncan Stuart MAXWELL MC Commanding Officer, 27th Brigade AIF, 8th Division Singapore
8TH DIVISION AIF MALAYA WW2
Curtin’s communication to Churchill 17 January 1942
BLAMEY, CURTIN & MACARTHUR
PERCIVAL, MacARTHUR, WAINWRIGHT, BENNETT & WAVELL
GALLEGHAN, COL. ‘BLACKJACK’ CHANGI, SINGAPORE
BOONPONG SIRIVEJCHAPAN – saviour of many sick POWs
Saggers & O’Sullivan first to arrive home 1945
‘D’ Force V Battalion Group 6 – Brankassi, Kuii, Hindaine.
WX3451 Major Colin Cameron
Anketell, Michael Joseph, Lieutenant-Colonel , Commanding Officer, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Newspaper Reports
AIF ASK FOR REDUCED TRAIN FARES & IMPROVED SERVICES TO & FROM NORTHAM WW2
Track to Hell – Veterans visit to Railway 2003
The Shirker WW1
Agony of PoW’s Nov 11 1997
Tamaroa – Fremantle Oct 1945 with Returning POWS
2/4th Memorial Darwin 2008
POW 1943 News – Jim Elliott, Wally Holding, Ted Feltham
‘Rakuyo’ Maru survivors bring their story to Australia & news Japanese POW Camp conditions
SANDAKAN – Newspaper reports
Saggers & O’Sullivan first to arrive home 1945
Kemp, Wheelock, W.J. Smith, Mellor & De Castilla return ‘Otranto’ 1945
We Sailed For Singapore – ‘Aquitania’ – Athol Stewart, Swan Express (Midland Junction) 15 February 1945)
Rohan Rivett’s (war correspondent) Sept 1945 writing about Bushido
10,000 Western Australians enlisted WW2
1941 Training at Lancelin
WX10370 Hall, WX6067 Dean, WX8441 Mellor, WX4986 Taylor, WX9764 Poulton – POW news during War
2/4th Woodside 1941
Borneo Sep 1945 – Owen Colin Campbell one of 6 survivors – 600 Australian POWs reported died
POWs returned Perth by train 17 October 1945
News received at home from POWs in 1943
Anniversaries
Diplomat Gets a Grim Reminder
British Belief in Own Propaganda
For your tomorrow they gave their today
POWS from Sumatra Flown to Perth
WA was hit by fear
News of POWs 1943 and 6 degrees of Separation!
1940 Population of Western Australia was 466,686
Personal Stories
2/4th Cake Recipe
WX7446 LES KRAS (formerly KRASNOSTEIN) Celebrates Life 1995
2024 PREMIER’S ANZAC STUDENT TOUR – JIM RIDGWELL
WX16236 Albert Victor King survived WW2 – I950 he re-enlisted to fight in Korea
Death of Mrs Joan HAMPTON, WIDOW OF TOM HAMPTON 25 Jan 2024
WX23079 Bravery & Tragic death of Ron ELLIS, Wagin – 2/4th MGB
WX16883 Norm PLATTS KIA 12 FEB 1942 SW BUKIT TIMAH
79 Years Ago, Dec 1944 Sandakan, North Borneo
Glad Cowie celebrated her 100th birthday 5 Nov 2023
Outram Road’s prisoner WX12835 John MCGREGOR sent 1943 Changi Hospital
Tom Zeeb 1914 aged 11 donates to children of Europe’s war
POW CARDS TO FAMILIES SEPT 1943 – FIRST NEWS OF THEIR LOVED ONES
Heal, Baker, Rayner & Gordon Dorizzi farewell Toodyay 1940
‘POP’ Heppingstone’s memories of Tarsau, Tamuang, Konkoita, Chungakai & Tamuang
‘SNOW’ HEWBY & his Brother BILL
AWM’S LAST POST CEREMONY – DAVEY CRIPPS
Australian Camel Corps WW1
The 2/4th soldier named ‘Sue’
Highgate RSL Hall of Honour
25th Light Horse (Machine Gun) Regiment WA
SO WHAT DID HAPPEN IN DOWNTOWN NORTHAM FEB 1941?
WX7248 THAXTER’S DIARY & Mergui Road
WX15654 WALKER, Robert Joseph ‘Bob’ of Bellevue (near Midland & Greenmount)
HINDLE, Herbert Roy ‘Dick’ Lance Corporal WX8869
12 year boy says goodbye to his father as he leaves for war – Bob Kelt never returned
John GILMOUR – Interviews with DVA about Japanese Guards, & other stories
WX8874 FINDLAY, Sandy – POW WW1 & WW2
Napier Waller Art Prize – AWM 2022
Jock Ferrie’s memories of Singapore POW days
JOHN BARTLEY ‘JOCKA’ SKELTON WX6681 drowned in boating accident 1956
Jack Leahy survives boating tragedy 1952
Melbourne Cup Frog Race, Gloe Gloer Camp, Sumatra
LANE BROTHERS – BOULDER
George GLASS former POW who ‘lost his way’ after the war
‘AXE-HANDLE’ RANDALL
A MOTHER’S PREMONITION – CORP. ALBERT DAHLBERG
My First Anzac Day Card!
MARSH & KEARNEY, ‘E’ COY SRB AVOID CAPTURE 24 DAYS
2/4th MGB – HADDEN COUSINS – GILBERT & LLOYD
SAWYER COUSINS – WX7939 CLARRIE & WX7256 THOMAS KEITH
SHAUN MORTON – GRANDSON OF DANNY BEVIS
WX227 Alf STEVENS & SANDAKAN SECRET UNDERGROUND NETWORK
Lt Col Roland OAKES’ BETRAYAL OF 5 AUSTRALIANS – SENT OUTRAM ROAD GAOL
WX7444 ATTENBOROUGH, Bill
How Precious is Freedom by John Ramsbottom (later changed to Lane)
Sutherland, Neale & Rouse family connection – Ainsworth, Ajana.
Mates – WX8690 Hall, WX8709 Blaschek, WX8738 Struthers, WX8706
11th Battalion WW1 – 2/4th brothers/sons/nephews/uncles
Danny Bevis Diary
‘Greater Love Hath No Man – Darwin 1941’
WX11046 RICHES, Leslie Gordon (Pard) ANZAC VETERAN
KUHL and HARRIS – 1941 Adelaide
Wenn Collection Photos
Cousins Ron PAGE & Manson BUTCHER
WX8738 Bill Struthers journey to UBON, Thailand
Butler family & Benedictine Mission, New Norcia
‘Bully’ HAYES & ‘Buck’ ROGERS
Ron BADOCK – Singapore Survivor 70 Years Later
Phil BEILBY – POW on ‘Pampanito’
WX9418 Doug ‘Trader’ Horn
POW 1943 News – Jim Elliott, Wally Holding, Ted Feltham
Bendall WX17864 & Allan Trigwell – died Sandakan
Bill Beard WX7883 – Jim Goldie WX7627 – Charles ‘Bubbles’ Holme WX16416 – George Lake WX17582 died Sandakan 1945
WX8003 Alexander Meora ‘Alec’ HACK died Sandakan 4 February 1945
Neville Matson receives by post from Singapore 1946, his pre-war photographs
Ridgwell’s memories of Tarsau’s Ulcer Ward
2/4th Signature collection by Fred Whitaker WX16274
Mentiplay survives Bayonet through neck
Death of WW1 Soldier taken POW of Germany – Grandfather of WX17615 Ernest James THOMSETT KIA Singapore 10 February 1942 aged 19 years
How MORRISON acquired ‘Snow White’ as his nick-name
Outram Road Gaol – McGregor WX12835 & Dean WX6067 & WX227 Stevens
Khonkan Hospital 55km – William (Bill) Hood WX7471, Tom Davison WX7909, Allan Bamford WX8485 – Khonkan 55 Km Hospital Camp
Vale – W.T. (Bill) Castles WX8792
WX9229 Walter Edward ‘Bill’ Breed – Former POW of Japan, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, man with big personality returns farming Gnowangerup
‘My Grand-Pop was a Hero’ by Amanda Van Hall (granddaughter of Wally Winter WX10373
Helsin Family – WX10095 John Frederick Helsin
Diary of Overland trip Adelaide to Darwin by Sgt Arbery
Stowaway on-board ‘Aquitania’ – WX16931 OSWALD, Henry Christopher (aka Hugh) ‘Horse’ or ‘Harry’
Kobe Japan – Gilmour, Hutchinson and Ramsbottom – POWs of Japan enjoy laugh when possible
WX9055 HARRY PICKETT – one of the lucky few! Rescued by ‘Pampanito’ South China Sea
Prisoners of War of Japan – returning home did not end their suffering and anguish
Soldiers of 2/4th who were ill and returned to Australia and those who were not taken POW
Hutchinson, Wally’s bath at Kobe, Japan
Baxter, ‘Slew’ WX8140 – by Wally Holding
Fuhrmann, Henry Charles, WX7852 Acting Corporal, DCM
Fitzgerald WX5425 Affidavit – ‘Scarface’ at Nacom Chassi, Thailand
POWs Put Ordeal On Record
Salute to Victory
A man who fought but had no vote
Singapore Escape to Sumatra ’42 – Hopson, Magill, Squance, Quinn, Semple, Annear, Burgess, Harold Smith
Jimmy Smith entertains -A glorious moonlit tropical night
Tom Lewis WX74412 – His was a most Unfair Life!
Smith Ryan’s lucky escape from a Japanese firing squad 1942
Ridgwell, Bill Reeves Fly from Singapore to West Australia 1945
Obituary for WX14836 John (Jack) Keneth LANE (formerly Ramsbottom) A Fairbridge Kid
COCKING – Released Prisoner of War – Survived sinking of Rakuyo Maru – rescued by USS Pampanito, returned November 1944 Western Australia
Clay & Wade return to Singapore
Frank Armstrong – First Sandakan Tragedy and Korean & Formosan Guards
Anketell Street, South Perth.
The Elliott family visit Singapore for the 75th Anniversary of Fall of Singapore 2017
Holding, Wally WX17634 His Story – Part 2
WX8493 Bert Norton’s recollections as per his diary
Holding, Wally WX17634 ~ His Story (Part 1)
Correspondence between Mrs Trigwell (mother of Vern Trigwell) with H.T. Bunker who survived Rakuyo Maru sinking
Fuhrmann, Harry WX7852 his personal story
Pte. Harry Tysoe WX9226
Cpl. William James Paterson WX9073
Schurmann, John Henry WX5007 – Random Recollections
Three Newling Brothers – who never returned home
Pte. Tom Wayman WX7502
Burchell Brothers – Fairbridge
Poetry by Slim Pitts
Digger’s remains found at last – 2001 story of Rolf Newling
Lesley William McCann WX17837 Escape From Death
Jack George Kyros (Kyriakos) WX10715
McGlinnn, Fank WX8478 his Diary written of final weeks as POW in Niihama, Japan
Jim Elliott obituary, March 2011
Heppingston, Ian – obituary 1999
Wally (Walter George) Worth WX10012 – Message from POW Camp
Alf Worth and Jim Elliott – 2010
Lawyers On The Notorious Burma Thailand Railway
Carlyon, Bill – Changi Veteran recalls POW hell
Angela Gazey – Premier’s Student Tour Group 2012
Joe & Daniel Pearce
Dimopoulos Peter ANZAC of the year 2013
Borrow, Joseph WX8712 – Born 4/12/1916 Died of Wounds 15/2/1942, Singapore.
2002 Visit by Joe Pearce & John Morgan to Lim Chu Road (8 February 1942)
Dick Ridgwell’s POW’s story – never assume Japanese do not speak English!
Dick Ridgwell encounter with a Sikh, Singapore
Hodgson, Leonard Sydney ‘Tim’ – WX9231 – died Khonkan 55.5 km camp, Burma.
Nicknames
Morrissey, Albert Edward (Bert) WX15751 ‘A’ Company
Dorizzi brothers & Reg Ferguson – From Toodyay to Sandakan
Post War
Thai – Burma Railway artwork collection at AWM
Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, Southeast Asia, WW2
End of War newspaper stories – POWs returning, War Trials, tragedies.
Address for three Dorizzi Brothers & their nephew, Bernie Dorizzi – the late President, 2/4th MGB ex-Members Assoc (Est 1946), – BOYUP BROOK SANDAKAN MEMORIAL SERVICE 12 SEPT, 2023
AUGUST 2023 – 50th ANNIVERSARY OF AUSTRALIA IN VIETNAM
SEARCHING FOR FAMILY OF THIS WW2 SANDAKAN POW’S RING
Highgate RSL Hall of Honour
2018 – WW2 Bombs found Chulalongkorn Railway Bridge, Ratchaburi
50TH ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL SERVICE 1995 – ST GEORGE’S CATHEDRAL
Rod McLennan President 2/4th MGB 2010 – 2018
George GLASS former POW who ‘lost his way’ after the war
Ex-Prisoners of War Association 1947
‘AXE-HANDLE’ RANDALL
Who volunteered to fight in the Korean war? Or serve with British Commonwealth Occupation Forces Japan or Korea
“Dominion Monarch” – overcrowding returning Ex-POWS
Stan Lance, Bill Carlyon, Tom Pilmoor – Borehole July 1992 ‘A’ Force Burma
1953 POWs story on Burma-Thai Railway – West Australian Newspaper
2/4th ASSOCIATION – the beginning
‘HAY STREET OFFICE’ 2/4th MGB – Billy Castles & ‘Tubby’ McGhee
TOJO’S REMAINS
Suspected Japanese War Criminals suffering mental health and physical exhaustion
Major Totaro Mizutani – SINGAPORE WAR TRIALS
Borneo Trials – Baba Masao, Susumi Hoshijima, etc.
SANDAKAN RELICS DISCOVERED
Owen Campbell – 1991 – Last Sandakan Survivor
How Precious is Freedom by John Ramsbottom (later changed to Lane)
Peace & Its Aftermath – John Ramsbottom (later changed to Lane)
75th Anniversary VJ Day 2020 Service, Address given by C. Mellor
War Widows Guild – Lifeline for 2/4th Widows
ANZAC DAY 2020
2/4th Assoc Incorporated advertised April 1946
Fall of Singapore 2000 – conducted byJohn Lane
50th Anniversary – Borehole Bulletin
Country Re-union 1972 – Narrogin hosts Win & Wal Holding
2/4th MGB Association Honour Board – Former Committee Members
Address for BOYUP BROOK SANDAKAN SERVICE 2019
‘Rakuyo’ Maru – 75th Anniversary torpedo attack & sinking 12 Sept 1944
Ted McLaughlin – Man behind Sandakan Memorial, Boyup Brook – 1991
Sandakan Memorial, Boyup Brook – 2/4th Sandakan Committee
Lady Mountbatten visits WA 1946
2/4th First Reunion Ball 1947
Kemp, Wheelock, W.J. Smith, Mellor & De Castilla return ‘Otranto’ 1945
Wankey & Gleeson – War Limbs sent AWM, Canberra
Mates – look after each other, risk their lives for each other…
Gilmour, John Barry WX8622 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion’s last surviving veteran
1946 Formation 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion Ex-members Association
2/4th Members still On Strength end December 2000
Victims of Japan win compo battle May 2001
Outram Road Gaol War Crimes Court 1946
2/4th Kalgoorlie Assoc. 1946
Vale – W.T. (Bill) Castles WX8792
Work Place Deaths & Accidents Pre-War & After War
Lemnos Hospital for Mentally Incapacitated Soldiers
Lady Mitchell Convalescent Home, Eric Street, Cottesloe
Singapore Club
We still remember
Drink at Alhambra Bar, Perth, WA (1946)
Sentences passed on Japanese Criminals
POW Leadership
LT. COL. GORDON BENNETT -Enquiry & Australian opinion
WX3451 Major Colin Cameron
Tribute to Lt-Col G E Ramsay & Ramsay Force No. 1 Battalion – ‘A’ Force
Ships & Submarines
‘FUKAI’ MARU – Singapore to Keijo, (Chosen) Korea 1942 – Jack Taylor, Jim Clancy, Bill Gray, Ted Roots & ‘Dutchy’ Holland
‘WALES’ MARU with ‘J’ Force – Their Journey to Japan 1943
Hellships – ‘A’ Force Singapore to Burma by Rohan Rivett
Rashin (Byoki) Maru Party to Japan
Rescue by Pampanito, Queenfish, Barb, Growler & Sealion – ‘Rakuyo’ Maru sinking Sept 1944. (Central Story)
HMS ‘Speaker’ sails into Sydney from Manila with returning former POWs of Japan – Australia’s dark war history with Waterside Workers
RMS ‘Aquitania’ (& German Raider KOMORAN)
Wu Suii/Wah Sui/ Wusei/Wusueh Hospital Ship evacuation of sick, injured to Ceylon February 1942
Harukiku Maru – Sinking SS Van Waerwjick Party, Sumatra
Tanjong Priok, Java Feb ’42 Blackburn & Soldiers of 2/2nd, 2/3rd. etc.
Rakuyo Maru – the Story – 38 men from 2/4th who perished
Sport & Social Groups
THE ROYAL ORDER of BUFFALOES – Changi Lodge
BOXING & WRESTLING
Anketell Cup – Perth Dinghy Club
Tamuang POW Camp, Thailand 17 August 1944 Australian Rules Football
Tamuang Camp Aug 1944 International Basketball
2/4th Cricket Team, Northam
Football team – 2/4th (Central Story)
2/4th Football Players
Where Did They Come From?
REINFORCEMENTS AT NORTHAM ARMY CAMP 24 SEP 1941
BOANS HONOUR BOARD WW2
GERALDTON & SURROUNDS 2/4th MGB ENLISTMENTS
NEWDEGATE BOYS WW2 – 2/4TH MGB
KALGOORLIE & BOULDER WAR MEMORIALS
NORTHAM WW2 MEMORIAL
‘Lost’ Carlton WW1 Footballer – Codge Thorn’s Grandfather – Carlton’s ‘Pattie’ Paterson
Esperance Boys & Esperance WW2 Memorial
Pingelly War Memorial- WW2 Robert ROUSE WX7656
Popanyinning or ‘Popo’ Hotel Country Reunion- 1970s?
10TH LIGHT HORSE, TOODYAY
Hale School – 2/4th MGB enlistments WW2
LAVERTON ENLISTMENTS FOR 2/TH MGB
MORAWA BOYS WW2
Big Bell Enlistments
NORSEMAN ENLISTMENTS 7 NOV 1941
SONS OF GWALIA MINE, GWALIA, LEONORA, AGNEW
KOOKYNIE – JACK PEERS, LEIPOLD family & VIC DEWAR
2/4th Machine Gun Battalion KELLERBERRIN BOYS
MENZIES WAR MEMORIAL & 2/4th Enlistments
BUDE, CORNWALL WAR MEMORIAL – Tom DAVISON
2/4th KOORDA BOYS – WW2 MEMORIAL
MURADUP WAR MEMORIAL – Includes Kojonup & surrounds
Katanning WW2 Memorial
Youngs Siding, Bornholm, Torbay, Kronkup, Elleker
2/4th Machine Gun Battalion OBE – ‘Over Bloody Eighty’
Midland WW2 Memorial – Men of this area
Boys from Bruce Rock area.
Pingelly WW2 Memorial
Quairading WW2 War Memorial & Dandin Area
Group Settlement Scheme WA – How did it work.
MANJIMUP WW2 WAR MEMORIAL
BRIDGTOWN WW2 MEMORIAL
10TH LIGHT HORSE MILITIA – NOV 1939 to APR 1940
Wooroloo, Mundaring, Mt Helena, Sawyers Valley Enlistments 2/4th MGB
Capel WW2 Memorial
Bunbury War Memorial & 2/4th men from Bunbury
Bill Beard WX7883 – Jim Goldie WX7627 – Charles ‘Bubbles’ Holme WX16416 – George Lake WX17582 died Sandakan 1945
WX8003 Alexander Meora ‘Alec’ HACK died Sandakan 4 February 1945
Boyup Brook WW2 Memorial
Busselton World War Two Memorial
Toodyay Honour Memorial WW2
Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital, WW2 Memorial Plaques
Armadale WW2 Memorial
Esperance Enlistments 2/4th MGB WW2
Gascoyne, Shark Bay, Roebourne, Ashburton and Pilbara Enlistments
Carnarvon 2/4th Enlistments
Australia Remembers
Northampton – 2/4th boys & WW2 Memorial Inscriptions
Abergavenney & District War Memorial, Wales
Wanneroo WW2 War Memorial – Barney Facey, Jim Gibbs and Lacey Gibbs
Gosnells War Memorial
Shire of Brookton War Memorial
Mt Barker War Memorial
The boys from Albany & WW2 War Memorial
Carnamah War Memorial
Denmark WWII War Memorial
Shire of Wagin War Memorial & Prisoners of War of Japan
Byford War Memorial
Guildford War Memorial
Augusta Region
Augusta – Jewel Cave and Spackman
Narrogin War Memorial – WWII
Nungarin War Memorial
Boyanup War Memorial
Wyalkatchem WW2 War Memorial
THE BOYS FROM MERREDIN & WW2 MEMORIAL
Donnybrook War Memorial – 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion AIF WW2
Yarloop War Memorial
Collie & Worsley & COLLIE WW2 MEMORIAL – Timber & Mining Country
Wesley Colllege, South Perth – 2/4th Soldiers – former students who lost their lives WW2
Gnowangerup/Tambellup/Ongerup
Former Scotch Collegians with 2/4th MGB WW2
Shackleton Community’s Tribute to Langdon & Venemore,
Cripps & Northampton enlistments – Rakuyo Maru
Five from Mundijong
The Boys from Mukinbudin
Indigenous Western Australians who joined 2/4th
Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra
Beacon WW2 WAR Memorial, West Australia
Donnybrook Boys – Vern Trigwell, Allan Trigwell, ‘Harry’ Cain & Bert Wall
