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2/20th Battalion

A.I.F.

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ENLISTMENT

Training at Tamworth

R&R Leave

N.C.O. Training

Final R&R Leave

Left Tamworth

EMBARKATION

Leave Sydney

Sail South

Ship Food

Perth, Western Australia

Anger at Cancelled Leave

Leave Fremantle

Sundra Straits

ARRIVE SINGAPORE

MAP (Malay Thailand Peninsula)

Arrive Singapore

Leave From Duty

MALAY PENINSULA

MAP (Johor - Malaya)

Mersing

Arrival

Weapon Pits

Pearl Harbour Bombed

Battle Stations Manned

Anti Personnel Mines

Japanese Land in Thailand   

Back to Mersing

Crocodiles

Barbed Wire

Two Men Lost

CONTACT WITH THE JAPANESE

A Jungle Scout

Area of Operation

Japanese Engaged

A Patrol

Ordered to Attack

O'Brien

Retire Across River

O'Brien Stretchered Out

Ammunition Allocation

Japanese Scout the Area

Some Sleep

WITHDRAWAL TO JEMALUANG

Successful Ambush

Indian Forces Rescued

BACK TO MERSING

Concealed Observers?

Singapore Mersing Road

Japanese Attack 2/18th

2/18th Withdraw

Rearguard

We Withdraw

KOTA TINGGI

Guarded Bridge

Drinking Cordial

Withdrawn From Bridge

Southern Johore Defence Line

Last Across Causeway

SINGAPORE ISLAND

MAP (Singapore)

Initial Battle Stations

Artillery Wanted To Fire

Supplies And Rations

Our Area

Japanese Assault Starts

IN THE BATTLE FOR SINGAPORE 

Battle Raging

Wounded

EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF

Order Given

Ray Nolan

Wounded Lay In Scrub

Cross A Drain

JAPANESE OVERRUNNING AREA

Japanese Mopping Up

Machine Gunner

Chinese Squatter

Tengah Air Force Base

Sniper

WOUNDED TO HOSPITAL IN

GIRLS' SCHOOL

Wounds Dressed

2/10 A.G. Hospital

Tragedy of Nurses

HOSPITAL IN CATHAY BUILDING,

SINGAPORE

Evacuated to "Cathay"

Carried Up Stairs

Shelled By Naval Gun

Ian Affleck

Water

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