Gallery

• WX6623 DAVID WILLIAM THOMAS ‘RAKUYO MARU’ 1944 LOST AT SEA AGED 23 YEARS
•   ‘THE MIDNIGHT STARS ARE SHINING UPON A SILENT GRAVE‘
• Omuta No 17 POW Camp, Japan
•   Note: blankets folded, hanging at end of each bed.  Lovingly crocheted  by West Australian women for soldiers returning from war. Believed to be Lady Lawley, Cottesloe where men with eye problems were initially hospitalised.  (From Tommy Lewis Collection)
• HMT ‘Strathmore’ returned POWs from Melbourne to Perth, 1945. (Photo courtesy Tommy Lewis Collection)
• HMT ‘Arawa’ returned POWs Singapore to Sydney 1945. (Photo courtesy Tommy Lewis Collection)
• From Wally Holding’s writings – Slew Baxter WX8140 born in Kalgoorlie 1910 was quite a character in 2/4th!
• 100 Kilo Camp Cemetery, Thailand