Gallery

• Jack Kyros, an active Committee member during his life.
• Frank Noble with his nephew on day he jumped ship (Aquatania) with his Battalion mates to spend one and last day with family, whilst visiting WA on journey to Singapore 1942.  Frank Noble never returned to his family and WA.  He died Sandakan 26/5/1945 aged 25 years.  Like so many families during war, Frank’s parents never recovered from the tragic loss of their youngest son particularly a death in such horrific circumstances.
• Reg & Ivy Ferguson, daughters Daphne and Pauline with ‘Gunner’.  Reg Ferguson perished Ranau 23/3/1945.
• Hotel Camp – Mukden – Manchuria – camp list
• Jim Clancy, front 2nd from left, on the Formidible en route to Sydney post war.
• Hotel Camp – Mukden – Manchuria at wars end Jim Clancy tallest
• On the way home, Jim Clancy, Judda Bee, Doc Brennan. ‘Tiger’ Scott & Roy ?
• John Gilmour – Changi Digger won his battle on athletics field, The West Australian April 17, 2009
• Ex-Members of the 2/3rd and 2/4th Machine Gun Btns taken by West Australian Newspaper
• Ray Barbour’s 1945 wedding, St Mary’s Cathedral, Perth.  Ray’s left leg amputated 9/10/1943 because of tropical ulcer (possibly No. 2 Hospital Camp Non Pladuk)
• Harry ‘Pop” Hammer
• Saturday 14 August 2010, Alf Worth, 95, & Jim Elliott, 90, at POW Memorial Kings Park. Sunday 15th August 2010 was the 65 anniversary of VP Day, Victory in the Pacific though the 2/4th prefer VJ Day for Victory over Japan. “Cruel years buried in salvation’   by Malcom Quekett, The West Australian, Saturday August 14th 2010 It was 65 yars ago but Alf Worth and Jim Elliott remember it clearly. Hope and salvation fell from the sky as their days of hell as prisoners of war in Japanese work camps in Japan ended. The hope came in leaflets US bombers dropped.  Some said the Japanese had surrendered and WW II was over.  Others told the prisoners to paint red crosses on the camp roof to signal where they were.  Then salvation came in 44-gallon drums which burst as they hit the ground, spilling food. Alf Worth was working in a coal mine at Ohama, hauling box cars and remembers hearing the war had ended as the Japanese guards listened to the radio. Jim Elliott was in Niihama as a carpenter and remembers being bitterly cold in one of Japan’s worst winters in 30 years. “We would not have lasted much longer” Jim says.” Read further in Stories……..