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  • HOPES FOR RELEASE OF 8th DIVISION P.O.W. [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 4 July 1945, page 2
    News 100 words

    The release of Australian Eighth Division prisoners of war was mentioned in the House of Representatives yesterday by Mr. Corser (Wide ...
  • CASH INSTEAD OF CHEERS [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 30 August 1945, page 12
    News 134 words

    Sir: Instead of the talked of holiday when the 8th Division returns, would it not be better for the people of Melbourne and suburbs to show their ...
  • UNRRA Delegates in Informal Pre-Conference Scenes [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 16 February 1945, page 9
    News ILLUSTRATED 319 words

    IN THE SWIMMING POOL. First to sample the cool waters of the pool at the Lapstone Hotel, in the Blue Mountains (NSW), setting for the first conference of the Far East Council of UNRRA, which began yesterday, were Mr J. van Holst Pellekaan, left, secretary to the Netherlands Indies Commission for Australia and NZ, and Colonel L. E. Bunker, US Army, one of General ...
  • MORE ARRIVALS AT DARWIN [ tagged as 8th Division POW's RAAF POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 18 September 1945, page 3
    News 117 words

    Twelve more liberated POW's arrived at Darwin in a RAAF Catalina early yesterday, the Air Department announced. They will leave for ...
  • DIED IN THAILAND [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 14 March 1945, page 3
    News 98 words

    Alexander John Bell, AIF, eldest son of Mrs E. M. Bell, Ballarat, who had previously been reported a prisoner in Thailand, is now reported to have ...
  • EIGHT A.I.F. P.O.W.'s RETURNING SYDNEY, Friday. [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 16 March 1946, page 4
    News 57 words

    A British aircraft carrier now en route to Australia from England, has on board eight members of the A.I.F. who were recently recovered from ...
  • RESCUED POW WAS 15 WHEN HE ENLISTED "All Japs Sadists," Says Victorian [ tagged as 8th Division POW's POW's Recovered ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 17 September 1945, page 3
    News 204 words

    After nearly four years in Japanese POW camps in East Asia and Japan Spr J. E. Bassett, of Launceston (T), who was 15 when he enlisted, has ...
  • FROM CAMP MISERY TO LUXURY P O W's Take Over Japanese City TOKYO [ tagged as 8th Division POW's POW's Recovered ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 20 September 1945, page 20
    News 319 words

    The most fantastic of many strange stories of rescues of Allied POW's from prison camps is the virtual taking over of the important city of ...
  • WAITING TO ENTER SINGAPORE Catalina Mercy Mission to POW's BORNEO [ tagged as 8th Division POW's POW's Recovered ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 10 September 1945, page 16
    News 224 words

    Australia's nine RAAF mercy Catalinas, with medical officers and supplies to help 8th Division POW's, have been riding at their moorings ...
  • MAJOR-GENERAL BENNETT MEETS 8th DIVISION MEN [ tagged as 8th Division POW's POW's Recovered ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 19 September 1945, page 3
    News 73 words

    Fourteen members of the 8th Divisions were among 34 liberated POW's who reached Sydney by train from Brisbane yesterday. ...
  • FUND TO COVER P.O.W. HARDSHIPS [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 13 October 1950, page 6
    News 473 words

    A special trust fund of £250,000 will be established by the Commonwealth Government for payment of compensation to Australian ex-servicemen suffering special hardships as a direct result of their imprisonment by the ...
  • Family Notices [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Family Notices ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 23 March 1953, page 4
    Family Notices 228 words

  • RECEPTION PLANS FOR RECOVERED P O W FROM MALAYA [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Australian Nursing Sisters POW's Recovered ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 21 August 1945, page 2
    News 103 words

    Former 8th Division officers now serving in Australia and New Guinea, and nursing sisters evacuated from Malaya in 1942, would be included ...
  • MELBOURNE DOCTOR AND SON ON POW PLANE [ tagged as 8th Division POW's POW ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 24 September 1945, page 3
    News 145 words

    Colonel A. P. Derham, a Collins st doctor, and his son, Pte T. P. Derham, who were liberated from the same POW camp, arrived in ...
  • DUKE OFFERS PLANE TO TRANSPORT P O W [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 1 September 1945, page 5
    News 81 words

    The Duke of Gloucester offered the use of his four-engincd Avro-York aircraft to assist in the transport of the 8th Division prisoners of war ...
  • IN PARLIAMENT 600 IN DETENTION CAMPS [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 21 June 1946, page 4
    News 542 words

    At present, 600 Servicemen are still in army detention camps, and the Government is examining their case, said the Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) ...
  • Family Notices [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Death Air Crash Death at Sea Death New Guinea POW ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 12 September 1945, page 2
    Family Notices 5697 words

  • No title DIED AT AMBON [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Ambon ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 24 September 1945, page 13
    News ILLUSTRATED 63 words

    Pte. P. J. O'Donoghue, 2/21 Batt, 8th Division, who died while a prisoner of ...
  • Prisoner No More [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Borneo POW Camp Changi Outram Road Gaol POW's Recovered ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 15 September 1945, page 13
    News 232 words

    One seat in the chamber of the House of Representatives which has been vacant since 1940 will be occupied soon, when Sergeant Adair ...
  • 8th Div. Men in Singapore Hospital:: Others in Japan [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED POW's Recovered Stanley Gaol ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 15 September 1945, page 17
    News ILLUSTRATED 212 words

    SOME 8TH DIVISION MEN released from Chongi POW camp are now receiving treatment for malnutrition in hospital at Singapore. From right: T. Chiplin, Cardiff, Wales; F. V. Wart, London; Pte A. J. Campbell, Hay, NSW; Sgt J. A. Damen, NSW; Pte G. W. Rogers, Scarborough, England; ...
  • PRISONER OF WAR NEWS FROM RED CROSS [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Red Cross ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 21 August 1943, page 2
    News 185 words

    When the 14,000 letters from Australian prisoners In Japanese hands, which the Postmaster-General advises can be expected very soon, arrive in ...
  • RELEASE OF AUSTRALIANS FROM MALAYA S E A C Mission In Melbourne [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 22 August 1945, page 3
    News 274 words

    [?] special mission of 11 officers under Major-General D. Harrison to represent Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten arrived in Melbourne ...
  • No title [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 10 October 1945, page 1
    News ILLUSTRATED 33 words

    A PIANO-ACCORDION which contained a secret radio set and yet played perfectly while in Japanese camps was brought back by Victorian POW of the 8th Division who arrived in Melbourne yesterday.' ...
  • THREE YEARS SINCE JAPAN ENTERED WAR Mr Forde Asks For Big Effort In 1945 [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 7 December 1944, page 6
    News 265 words

    CANBERRA, Wed: Although the tide of war had turned strongly in our favour in the Pacific, the Allied Nations were a long way from ...
  • Family Notices [ tagged as 8th Division POW's POW ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 1 November 1945, page 2
    Family Notices 1389 words

  • Family Notices [ tagged as 8th Division POW's POW ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 6 November 1945, page 2
    Family Notices 3432 words

  • TOY-MAKING CONTEST FOR P O W FUNDS [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 16 October 1944, page 8
    News 95 words

    A toy-making competition of eight sections will be held by the 8th Division Auxiliary for prisoner of war funds, entries to be lodged not ...
  • Queues for POW Criticised [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 24 August 1944, page 6
    News 219 words

    Strong criticism of the manner in which women next of kin of prisoners of war in the Far East had been forced to queue up at the ...
  • LETTERS All letters must bear the names of the writers for publication. Pen names are not acceptable. MESSAGES TO PRISONERS [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 28 August 1944, page 4
    News 197 words

    Sir: As the representative of approximately 5,000 next of kin whose menfolk are either missing or POW in Japanese hands, I protest against ...
  • ILLTREATMENT OF POW BY OFFICERS ALLEGED Inquiry Urged [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 3 November 1945, page 3
    News 98 words

    The New South Wales Labour council has decided to press the Federal Government for a searching inquiry into grave allegations into ...
  • EXHIBITION OF TOYS [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 24 October 1944, page 8
    News 107 words

    All manner of toys are assembled at the exhibition arranged by 8th Division (Victorian Unit) Soldiers' Amenities Fund Auxiliary POW ...
  • WAR ARTIST WORKED WHILE POW [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 13 October 1945, page 4
    News 128 words

    The Australian official war artist, Murray Griffin, who was taken prisoner in Singapore while attached td the 8th Division, completed 40 oil ...
  • Murdered By Japs After Mere Sham' Of Trial (A.A.P.-Reuter). LOS NEGROS, Monday. [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Gen Masataka Yamawaki Haruo Watanabe Japanese War Crimes Sandakan ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 31 October 1950, page 3
    News 239 words

    After a "mere sham" of a trial Japanese murdered an Australian signals officer and sentenced other prisoners of war to long ...
  • PERSONAL [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 14 November 1945, page 2
    News ILLUSTRATED 348 words

    Cr Connelly,Lord Mayor, and Mrs Bernard Heinze, Lady Mayoress, yesterday entertained interstate delegates to the WCTU conference now ...
  • LAST WITNESSES AT BENNETT INQUIRY Counsel's Addresses Begin Today [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Lieut General Gordon Bennett's Escape ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 12 December 1945, page 6
    News ILLUSTRATED 848 words

    Evidence was completed yesterday at the inquiry into Lieut-General Gordon Bennett's escape from Singapore. ...
  • TIME OF SURRENDER BIG ISSUE AT BENNETT INQUIRY [ tagged as 8th Division POW's General Gordon Bennett's Escape General Yamashita ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 27 November 1945, page 1
    News 405 words

    "When do you say the surrender took place?" This question, put by Mr Justice Ligertwood to Mr Dovey, ...
  • MEN OF THE 8th COME HOME FROM SINGAPORE Grim Stories of Life Under the Japs; Survival Due to Courage and Resource [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Changi Japanese Cruelty ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 20 September 1945, page 3
    News ILLUSTRATED 1553 words

    Though thousands of their mates perished in jungle slave gangs, either from Japanese cruelty in violent form, from starvation and disease, ...
  • JAPANESE MARCH INTO SINGAPORE CITY HOIST FLAG ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS FROM AAP AND OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT LONDON, Monday. [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Fall of Malaya and Singapore General Tojo Lieut-Gen Yamashita ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 17 February 1942, page 1
    News 885 words

    AS A SEQUEL TO THE BRITISH SURRENDER OF SINGAPORE YESTERDAY, ROME RADIO ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING THAT A JAPANESE ARMOURED DIVISION HAD ENTERED SINGAPORE CITY AT 8AM LOCAL TIME (NOON IN MELBOURNE), AND THAT ...
  • A I F PRISONERS IN SINGAPORE Pay and Allowances To Continue [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Army Pay ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 24 February 1942, page 1
    News 105 words

    CANBERRA, Monday. — Pay and allowances of members of the 8th Division, AIF, who were taken prisoners in ...
  • DIED IN THAILAND [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 28 July 1945, page 8
    News ILLUSTRATED 84 words

    Pte Gordon M. Allan (2/29th Battalion, 8th Division), only son of Mr and Mrs M. Allan, 9 ...
  • SHOT PRISONERS TO SAVE FACE (A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Wednesday. [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Itsui Japanese War Crimes Kennichi Togoro ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 12 October 1950, page 1
    News 196 words

    Three Australian prisoners of war from the 8th Division were shot to death in Burma "merely from a Japanese idea of saving ...
  • SYDNEY MAN'S BROADCASTS FROM TOKYO "Contrived To Help Allies" TOKYO [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Bunka Camp Major Charles Cousens ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 5 September 1945, page 3
    News 536 words

    Captain Charles Cousens, formerly of Sydney, who, after his capture with other members of the Australian 8th Division at Singapore, ...
  • No title [ tagged as 2-2 Pioneers 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 15 September 1945, page 1
    News ILLUSTRATED 87 words

    FIT AND IN HIGH SPIRITS, these 8th Division men arrived at Yokohama railway station with a hand-made flag. From left: Pte G. Carroll (Towong, V), Pte J. Kay (Bega, NSW), Cpl F. Lawrence (Nowra, NSW), Pte J. White (Jerilderie, NSW), Pte D. Mayers (South Melbourne), Pte H. Ramsay (Clayton, Melbourne), Pte J. Dwyer (Brisbane), Pte W. Williams (Sydney), Pte Bill Mayne (Richmond, Melbourne), and Driver A. Hunt ...
  • No title [ tagged as 8th Division Pow's Catalinas ILLUSTRATED POW's Recovered ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 17 September 1945, page 1
    News ILLUSTRATED 52 words

    VICTORIAN POW's FROM SINGAPORE enjoy a cup of tea in Sydney after arriving by Catalina flying-boat yesterday afternoon. They are three of the first batch of prisoners-of-war from the 8th Division released in Singapore. From left: Dvr G. W. Allan (VX35470), Pte T. S. Cooper ...
  • NEWS OF COLONEL KENT HUGHES [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 30 August 1945, page 1
    News ILLUSTRATED 115 words

    News that Colonel W. S. Kent Hughes, MLA, was alive and well at a prison camp near Mukden, near where ...
  • LIFE INSURANCE "DRAMATIC STEP TO SOCIALISATION" [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 4 July 1945, page 5
    News 930 words

    Resuming the second reading debate on the Life Insurance Bill in the House of Representatives, Mr Menzies said the Government's ...
  • FOOTBALL AND DISCIPLINE Ben Barnett Talks to Boys [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Army Honours Changi ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 20 October 1945, page 9
    News 166 words

    Captain Ben Barnett, former Test wicket-keeper, who has just returned from a POW camp, received a great welcome when he presented football ...
  • PRISONERS OF JAPAN [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 5 December 1944, page 6
    News 247 words

    Sir: As another narent who has a son in Japanese hands, I congratulate Mr A. D. Cooper (Dec 1) on his outspokenness on the intolerable ...
  • IN BRIEF CZECH NATIONAL DAY [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 27 October 1945, page 12
    News 466 words

    Czechoslovakia will celebrate its Independence Day tomorrow. In honour of the occasion the Czechoslovak community in Melbourne has ...
  • RESCUE OF 462 SIKHS AMONG PRISONERS Jap Atrocities And Ill-treatment [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Japanese Atrocities Sikhs Singapore to Kuala Lumpur ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 12 May 1944, page 3
    News 588 words

    Stories of Japanese cruelty to prisoners of war captured to Malaya were told by Indian troops rescued by Americans when they landed on the ...
  • 135 POW's FLOWN TO DARWIN BROUGHT FROM SINGAPORE BY CATALINAS 50 Victorians In Party LOOKING REMARKABLY WELL AFTER THEIR FLIGHT FROM SINGAPORE, 135 AUSTRALIAN POW'S FROM THE JAVAMALAYA AREA ARRIVED AT DARWIN YESTERDAY IN EIGHT CATALINA FLYINGBOATS. They comprised 131 Army personnel, all of the 8th Division, two survivors from HMAS Perth, and two members of the RAAF, all of whom were dressed in British Army jungle uniforms. [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Catalinas Survivors HMAS Perth ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 15 September 1945, page 1
    News 316 words

    The Army personnel included 50 Victorians, 31 South Australians, 11 Tasmanians, three West Australians, one ...
  • AUSTRALIAN POW's SEEN IN SARAWAK Signals to Pilots BORNEO [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED Kuching POW ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 29 August 1945, page 1
    News ILLUSTRATED 169 words

    "Welcome, AIF. All well here!" read a sign printed in large, white letters at a POW compound three miles from ...
  • MORE EVIDENCE OF JAP BRUTALITY Interviews With P O W's In Hospital Ship TOKYO BAY [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Japanese Cruelty Japanese War Crimes Kawasaki POW Camp Ofuna Prison Camp Omori POW Camp ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 5 September 1945, page 20
    News 765 words

    Further evidence of maltreatment of Allied POW's by the Japanese was found in the hospital ship Benevolence yesterday during interviews ...
  • GRIM STORY OF DEATH MARCH SIX AUSTRALIANS OF 1800 SURVIVE BORNEO HORROR R A A F Rescues Last Four of Sandakan Tragedy LABUAN, BORNEO A BRAVE STRUGGLE TO RESCUE THE LAST KNOWN SURVIVORS OF THE SANDAKAN DEATH MARCH AND THE ATROCITIES WHICH PRECEDED IT, ENDED SUCCESSFULLY YESTERDAY, WHEN FOUR 8TH DIVISION POW'S WERE FLOWN FROM THE HINTERLAND OF N W BORNEO TO SAFETY IN FOUR TINY RAAF AUSTER OBSERVATION PLANES. The pilots first had to overpower and disarm some Japanese who were not aware of the end of the war. The rescued men make a total of six survivors of 2,500 POW's taken by the Japanese to Sandakan, including 1,800 Australians. [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Japanese Cruelty RAAF Ranau Sandakan Death March ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 22 September 1945, page 1
    News 633 words

    The four men brought in yesterday were WO1 William Stricpewich, Newcastle, former international speedway rider; ...
  • HUGE AIR ARMADA GATHERED FOR LANDING IN JAPAN GENERAL MACARTHUR ON OKINAWA OKINAWA, Wednesday. [ tagged as 8th Division POW's General Yamashita Japanese Surrender Kobe Camp Okinawa Osaka Camp ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 30 August 1945, page 1
    News 1566 words

    Okinawa is "almost groaning under the weight" of hundreds of giant transports which will take off to-morrow with troops for the occupation of Japan. General MacArthur has arrived from Manila. Immediately after General MacA[?]r's plane, "Bataan," touches down at ...
  • GEN BENNETT'S STORY OF HIS ESCAPE Left in Sampan Hour and a Half After Surrender [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Lieut General Gordon Bennett's Escape ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 27 October 1945, page 3
    News 872 words

    In a long statement setting out his rearons for escaping from Singapore, Lieut-General Gordon Bennett said he thought it was advisable that he ...
  • Died While POW [ tagged as 2-22nd Battalion 8th Division POW's Army Casualties Lists ILLUSTRATED POW RAAF ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 12 October 1945, page 8
    News ILLUSTRATED 330 words

    Sgt J. W. Jones, of the 13th Ant[?] ...
  • RETURNED MEN RESENT LIGHT PENALTIES ON JAPS FOR CRUELTY SYDNEY, Monday. [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Changi Prison Japanese Cruelty ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 19 March 1946, page 4
    News 150 words

    Members of the Eighth Division, who were prisoners of the Japs for 3½ years, are seething with anger at the light sentences imposed by the ...
  • SERVICE QUERIES WHY HAS THE 8th DIVISION BEEN FORGOTTEN? [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Forgotten 8th Division ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 3 October 1944, page 6
    News 943 words

    In view of the widespread bitterness that is being engendered by the Federal Government's failure to make an equitable distribution of the ...
  • 4 MORE JAPS TRIED FOR ATROCITIES From a Special Correspondent LABUAN (BORNEO) [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Australian Nursing Sisters Borneo Captain Nakata Captain Takino Japanese War Crimes Kuching Labuam Lieut Ojima Lieutenant Yamamoto Lintang POW Camp POW Sister Natalie Storey ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 18 December 1945, page 3
    News 167 words

    With the resumption of war criminal trials at Labuan, Borneo, on Saturday, four Japanese officers faced trial on charges of having ...
  • Duke Offers Plane For Return of War Prisoners GOVERNMENT UNABLE TO ACCEPT [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 1 September 1945, page 2
    News 81 words

    The Governor-General, the Duke of Gloucester, offered the use of his 4engined Avro Anson aircraft to transport 8th Division prisoners of ...
  • No title [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Changi ILLUSTRATED Liner Largs Bay ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 11 October 1945, page 1
    News ILLUSTRATED 56 words

    VICTORIAN POW FROM SINGAPORE who reached Sydney in the liner Largs Bay yesterday brought back from Changi gaol the old piano taken to Singapore by the 8thDivision. At the piano is Signaller Harry Smith, at one time spruiker outside Hoyts Plaza, who gave a solo concert at the liner steamed up the Harbour. ...
  • 8th Div POW Arrive in Melbourne and Sydney [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 10 October 1945, page 11
    News ILLUSTRATED 39 words

    SOME OF THE 300 MEN of the 8th Division who arrived in Mel bourne yesterday cheered when they dumped their kits on Spencer street platform and awaited transport to the Showground. ...
  • A.I.F. PRISONERS EXISTED ON DOG MEAT (From Our Correspondent, George Johnston) TOKYO, Thursday. [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Naoetu Prison Camp Yokohama ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 7 September 1945, page 1
    News 171 words

    Rescued from Naoetu prison camp on the west coast of Honshu, 231 members of two battalions of the illfated Eighth Division have arrived ...
  • SYDNEY'S WELCOME TO FIRST POW's FROM SINGAPORE 110 Brought By Catalinas [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Burma-Thailand Railway Changi Prison ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 17 September 1945, page 3
    News 551 words

    Sydney gave a tumultous welcome yesterday to ex-POW's of the 8th Division—the first to arrive in Australia—when Catalina flying-boats ...
  • Died While POW [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED POW Ambon ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 24 October 1945, page 16
    News ILLUSTRATED 435 words

    Pte Wynne Baragwanath, younger son of Mr and Mrs Alex Baragwanath of the State Savings Bank. Richmond, is ...
  • 8th Div. Men Leave Changi Prison Camp for Darwin [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Changi POW's Return ILLUSTRATED ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 21 September 1945, page 9
    News ILLUSTRATED 233 words

    FIRST PICTURES of 8th Division boys moving out of Changi POW camp, Singapore, for transport to Australia by the hospital ship Oranje, which is due at Darwin today. Above: Scene at the camp, showing an ambulance moving away, while others wait their turn outside their huts. Top right: Pte Breen, of Hobart, who lost four stone in weight, and Cpl G. W. Ewins, Caulfield, who lost three stone. (Photos on this page were taken by ...
  • TOUCHING SCENES AT HEIDELBERG Reception of Prisoners of War [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED oranji POW ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 20 September 1945, page 10
    News ILLUSTRATED 1045 words

    "The crowds. Real Melbourne crowds. We never dared hope it would be just like that..." His voice was quiet and terribly ...
  • 8th Div. Men Come Home:: Welcomes at Heidelbero [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED POW's Recovered ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 20 September 1945, page 11
    News ILLUSTRATED 189 words

    RESIDENTS OF BENALLA came to the train with flowers and comforts for the 8th Division POW's who passed through on their way to Melbourne yesterday. MUCH TO HIS SURPRISE, Driver W. Presswell, ot Preston (left), ...
  • RECALLS HARD LABOUR AS POW Moj-Gen Gallaghan In Melbourne [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 3 October 1945, page 4
    News ILLUSTRATED 280 words

    "I don't want to go gardening again as long as I live," was Major-General Cecil Callaghan's brief, but expressive, comment yesterday when ...
  • CITY GREETS MEN OF THE 8th STREET DRIVE OF POW's STIRS CROWDS Cheering Thousands Give Great Homecoming MELBOURNE GAVE 119 LEAN, WAN-FACED MEN AN UNFORGETTABLE WELCOME YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. THEY WERE THE FIRST GROUP OF AUSTRALIAN POW'S RECOVERED FROM THE JAPANESE HANDS TO REACH VICTORIA. INCLUDED IN THE GROUP WERE 63 VICTORIANS, FOR WHOM THE WELCOME WAS SPECIALLY MEMORABLE. Cheering thousands in the city lined the route, flags were waved excitedly, home-made confetti was flung in profusion by laughing girls over the decorated cars which carried the soldiers, and wave after wave of cheers accompanied the rapidly moving procession. [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED POW's Recovered ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 20 September 1945, page 1
    News ILLUSTRATED 810 words

    Due at Spencer st at 4.5pm, the hospital train actually arrived 10 minutes later. Long before that time, however, ...
  • POW's STREAM INTO MANILA MORE AUSTRALIANS ARRIVE FROM JAP CAMPS Receiving First Real Comforts In Years FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS IN MANILA THE STREAM OF AUSTRALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR FROM JAPAN TO MANILA IS GROWING IN VOLUME, AND IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE DAILY ARRIVALS WILL NOW INCREASE RAPIDLY. Two escort carriers and four destroyers have also arrived from Formosa with Allied POW's, including 1,050 British and 12 Australians, who had been captured at Singapore. [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED POW's Recovered ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 13 September 1945, page 1
    News ILLUSTRATED 1330 words

    Immediately the POW's arrive at Manila they are given a hot meal, irrespective of the time of day or night, and are ...
  • No title [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 4 October 1945, page 9
    News ILLUSTRATED 14 words

    EVERY ONE OF THE LIBERATED POW'S awaiting repatriation at Bangkok wanted to shake hands with Major-General Csllsghan, who flew from Morortai to say good-bye before he left for Australia.He arrived in Melbourne this week. His rank and appointment as GOC of the 8th Division have been confirmed. ...
  • PRISONERS RELEASED IN JAPAN [ tagged as 8th Division POW's ILLUSTRATED ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 11 September 1945, page 1
    News ILLUSTRATED 160 words

    Australian POW's and internees liberated in Japan whose names have been released are: VICTORIA ...
  • THE FIRST STEP HOMEWARD. Australians of the 8th Division leaving [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Changi Prison ILLUSTRATED Oranje Hospital Ship ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 21 September 1945, page 1
    News ILLUSTRATED 46 words

    Changi gaol, Singapore, to embark on the hospital ship Oronje, due in Darwin today. Other pictures of these liberated POW's are published on page 9. They were taken by Norman Smith, staff photographer of THE ARGUS. ...
  • MASSACRE OF NURSES ON BANKA BEACH Australian POW Demand Japs Be Brought to Justice. [ tagged as 8th Division POW's Australian Nurses Massacred Banka Island Japanese War Crimes Muntok Rohan Rivett Sister Vivian Bullwinkel ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 19 September 1945, page 3
    News 1023 words

    The story of the massacre of 20 Australian nurses on the beach of Banka Island has been one of the most carefully guarded secrets of the ...
  • POW from Singapore and Rabaul:: Tokyo Ceremony [ tagged as 18 Australian Nurses Freed 8th Division POW's General Tojo ILLUSTRATED Naoetsu Camp POW's Recovered Totsuka Yokohama Yacht Club ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 14 September 1945, page 11
    News ILLUSTRATED 273 words

    PTE ARTHUR CHARLTON, of Canberra, points to the place on his original AIF hot where the rising sun badge was. He sold it to a Japanese guard for a bowl of rice when in desperate need of food. (Australian Official photo.) ...


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