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WX8445 REG CARTER b. Guildford 1913 Departed Singapore with ‘D’ Force Thailand, S Battalion. Reg died of Blackwater Fever Chungkai Hospital Camp 18 Feb 1945, aged 31 years. -
WX9391 Bernard Patrick DOOLAN b. Geraldton 1910 Pioneer Sergeant for HQ Coy No. 3 Platoon Departed Singapore with ‘A’ Force Burma to work Burma-Thai Railway in 1942. Evacuated to Chungkai POW Hospital Camp from Railway & recovered from Kachu Mountain POW Camp at end of war. Please read further about Chungkai Hospital Camp -
WX6841 JOHN STEWART ‘STEWIE’ SMITH Previously enlisted 10 Light Horse Militia 17 Dec 1936 SURVIVED WORKING ON THAI BURMA RAILWAY WITH ‘D’ FORCE THAILAND S BATTALION – SELECTED TO WORK JAPAN DEPARTED ‘RASHIN’ MARU 70 HORROR VOYAGE RECOVERED FROM NIIHAMA JAPAN AT END OF WAR -
WX12156 PETER OMIRIDIS b. Macedonia 1909 Sent Japan with ‘J’ Force on ‘Wales’ Maru to Kobe Moved to Kawasaki POW Camp, Maruyama Park June 45 Peter was one of 6 x 2/4th POWs moved to Wakinohama, Osaka No 14 B Camp – recovered from here. -
TWO FORMER FAIRBRIDGE FARM SCHOOL BOYS JOHN LANE & JACK MAUDE -
DESCENDENTS OF MICK WEDGE WX9553 THEY ANNUALLY ATTEND AND MARCH PERTH ANZAC DAY -
9 YEAR OLD WX13285 JACK MAUDE AN EARLY ARRIVAL IN 1921 AT FAIRBRIDGE FARM, PINJARRA THE CANOE WAS CONSTRUCTED BY MAUDE -
Clive Hellmrich Departed Singapore with “F” Force Thailand to work on Burma-Thai Railway – Clive d. illness Kanchaburi 22 Dec 1943 aged 33 years. He had been ill and evacuated weeks earlier from the Railway to Kanchanaburi Hospital Camp. -
Tennant Creek Water Supply A Stopover on 2/4th journey Alice Springs to Darwin -
AIRCONDITIONED SHOWERING NT -
TRAIN TO ALICE From Burden -
TRUCK CONVOY ALICE TO DARWIN
