Gallery

• Kobe, Japan. Aug 1945. Australian and other POWs retrieve drums of supplies dropped by parachute from USAAF B29 bomber aircraft into Wakinohama POW camp. Two drums are being rolled away, several men are looking skywards as presumably more drums are being dropped. Behind the drum (centre) is John Ramsbottom, 2/4thMGB. (Donor J. Lane)
• AWM:  Birdum, NT. Oct 1941. Cattle trucks transporting 2/4th MGB  to Darwin. (Donor J. Lane)
• AWM:  Hand made grave cross made of poured concrete, with ‘AIF’ cast on lower limb of cross. ‘L. CPL. HILL J. 2/4 M.G. BN 11. 3. 43’ is painted (now very faint) around an impressed brass strip bearing regimental number ‘WX8756’.
• POWS urgently flown to Singapore from Sumatra Railway They all required urgent health care.
• WW2 Poster
• High Tea & Afternoon Dancing! 1990’s at RSL
• 1945-10. ‘KOBE HOUSE’ POW CAMP SURVIVORS ON WAY HOME FROM JAPAN ON HMS FORMIDABLE. (DONOR: B. TAYLOR).
• Osaka, Japan. 1945. Australian prisoners of war (POWs) at  Notogawa Camp near Osaka after the Japanese surrender. The men, on their bunks suffered malnutrition and considerable loss of weight. Pictured, left to right: Private A. W. L. Park of Corrigin, WA (LANCE PARK of 2/4th);  Gunner T. O’Mullane of Brighton-Le-Sands, NSW; Sapper E. V. Smith of Koondrook, Vic; and Private Power of Kyogle, NSW.
• Darwin, NT. c. October 1941. Five members of 5 Platoon, A Company, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion constructing bush beds, cutting bamboo to use with the palliasses at Winellie Camp. When the unit arrived at camp, galvanised huts had been erected, but many were without concrete flooring and windows, requiring the first weeks at camp to be spent finishing off the accommodation. (Donor J. Lane)
• 50th Anniversary 25 Nov 1990 Church Parade, St Georges Tce, Perth
• 50th Anniversary Church Parade 25 Nov 1990 -St George’s Terrace, Perth
• 50th Anniversary Church Parade 1990 St Georges Tce, Perth