Diary of voyage to Australia via Panama in Stirling Castle with returning Australian and New Zealand troops, 18 June 1945-01 July 1946
- Component identifier:
- Item ff.99-118
- Content Summary:
- Subjects include: ill discipline of Australian troops; reception at Wellington given by acting New Zealand Prime Minister; Duke of Gloucester comes on board at Darling Harbour to welcome Australian troops; journey to Newcastle to camp at Gan Gan; news of atom bomb at Hiroshima; description of Gan Gan camp inhabited by kookaburras; change in orders due to collapse of Japan; camp struck and handed over to Australian Army; return to Aden; recall to Australia to evacuate camp at Moore Park; sailed to United Kingdom on Arawa.
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- M2636
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