World War I and II ephemera, publications and cuttings, 1912-c.1946

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Containers:
Box 145
Component identifier:
File 3
Content Summary:

Comprises a range of publications and ephemera, mostly for troops in World War II, including:

Australian fundraising and recruitment flyers.

Notices to troops: mostly in New Guinea Pidgin and Japanese, also German, Italian, French and Polish.

Three pages of handwritten translations to 'all nations of the Sepik', and 'officers and men of the Japanese forces', annotated 'Ern, as promised, Charles'.

Booklets of instructions to troops:Air intelligence section, North-Eastern Area booklet. Instructions to air crews on what to do in the event of forced landing in New Guinea-Papuan area.

Directorate of Intelligence Headquarters Allied Air Forces South West Pacific Area. Instructions to air crews. Notes on living and travelling in New Guinea, Papua and New Britain.

Troop newspapers: Guinea Gold, 1 June 1943; and L'Arc en Ciel, Apporte au Peuple Beige par l'Aviation des Nations Unies, 16 June 1944.

Blank prisoner of war post aerogram for British prisoners of war.

Also includes F S Burnell How Australia took German New Guinea : an illustrated record, c.1914; and newsletter for the 6th Imperial Bushmen of NSW (South African War), Kogarah, 1912.

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Parent Restrictions:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn742484).
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. Copying for research purposes is permitted for material created by E A and V I Crome. Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is generally permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material. Written permission to publish unpublished manuscript material must be obtained from the copyright holder(s).
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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