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2/20th Battalion

A.I.F.

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EDITION

BOOKS

about

Forster,

Tuncurry

and

nearby

villages.

LINKS

 

TAMARKAN CAMP AND RIVER KWAI

To Tamarkan Camp

Bridge On The River Kwai

History of Bridge

Allies' Bombs Hit Camp

TAMUANG CAMP

To Tamuang

Our Job

Tents

"Attaps"

LEG ULCER

How Ulcer Developed

Hot Packs Applied

Ulcer Cut Out

A Skin Graft

WORK AND INCIDENTS

A Boundary Trench

Sid Sent Off On Hellship

Bombing False Alarm

Shorty Cooper

Underground Storage

XMAS PANTOMIME

Christmas 1944

Cinderella

Officers Removed

Last Show For Many

NAKHON PATHOM

To Nakhon Pathom

Large Buddhist Temple

Built Bridges

Allies Advancing In Burma

Weary Dunlop

CHUMPHON CAMP

To Chumphon Camp

Bombed Bridge

Otters

Attacked By Our Aircraft

One Hour Of Bombing

Buddha Unscathed

Met A Pilot Later

Bombed Again By Ours

Railway Yard Damage

Fish In Rations

Mates

RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS

Barges

Naked Flame And Petrol

Espionage

Dutchy Bayoneted

Rice Bag Carrying Contest

A Railway Engine

First Mail From Home

END OF WAR

Rumours Confirmed

P.O.W.s Head North By Train

European Women!

Ratburi

FREE AT LAST

Commandos Surround Train

Plans To Eliminate P.O.W.s

Three Weeks At Ratburi

Mail Received

RETURN TO AUSTRALIA

To Singapore

Flight Home

9th Division At Labuan Island

Sandarkan Death Marches

Volcano Erupting

Harold Rideout

Seating

Morotai, Biak

Four Years Since Left Australia

Papua

Cape York Peninsula

Home Soil Again

Brisbane

Joyce Hancock (Ivor Rowe)

Crowe Family

TROOP TRAIN TO SYDNEY

Brisbane To Sydney

Welcome Home Tour Of Sydney

Processed At Showgrounds

Strathfield

Home By Train

HOME FROM THE WAR

Arrive Home To "Glen Ora"

Nabiac's Welcome Home

Dawn, My Future Wife

CONCLUDING COMMENTS

YEARS LATER

MAPS:-

Malay - Thailand Peninsula

Johor, Malaya

Singapore Island & Jahor Straits

Burma Thailand, showing railway

and POW camps

 

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