Gallery

• 16 Feb 1942 ‘Aquitania’ sails from Fremantle headed for Battle for Singapore with 8th Division.
• Published in newspaper 1949 – for Tom Fury who died in an Allied bombing raid whilst a patient at Thanbyuzayat Hospital, Burma from his mother Sarah Fury (nee Fyche).  Tom  aged 36 years, was a father of 3 sons, and Sarah’s firstborn child. Tom was a hurdle jockey in his younger days and later worked as a miner in Kalgoorlie.
• 2/4th Machine Gunners, Singapore before Japanese invasion Feb 1942.
• October 1945 Returning home to Australia standing with Captain of ‘Highland Bridgade’ Centre:  Lt-Col Charles Edward Green (became Commanding Officer of 2/4th following death of Lt-Col Anketell)  and Right: Mick Wedge
• October 1945 journey home to Australian on deck of ‘MV Highland Brigade’ Left sitting: Alexander Smith and Wally Lynn last right standing with British Nursing Sisters of The Queen Alexandra Nursing Service and other 8th Division survivors.
• Lemnos Hospital, June 2018 – John Gilmour remembers visiting 2/4th mate. Far Rt: John Gilmour with Committee Members Cheryl Mellor, Sylvia Norton Cheryl Johnson and Graeme Jonson, Owen Ashby.
• Wakanurie, Japan. 14 September 1945. After being liberated, former allied Prisoners of War (POWs) from the Niihama POW camp line up to be deloused, fed, clothed and interrogated before being shipped home. They were later put on a hospital ship for Okinawa, then on to Manila. Amongst these prisoners may have been NX6957 Private E Robinson, 2/20th Battalion, AIF, a POW who was in Changi POW Camp, Singapore, before being sent to a camp in Japan.
• WX6623 DAVID WILLIAM THOMAS ‘RAKUYO MARU’ 1944 LOST AT SEA AGED 23 YEARS Please read further about ‘Rakuyo’ Maru
•   ‘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)