Untitled folder on loss of Australian prisoners on the Montevideo Maru

Containers:

Box 21 (MS Acc12.115)

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File

Content Summary:

Including: 'Silence is broken on Australia's worst maritime disaster', ABC 7.30 Report, 6 Oct 2003, print version of story: Maxine McKew, Mark Simkin, Elsie McMillin, Hank Nelson, Yoshiaki Yamaji, Hisahi Noma, Albert Speer, Ts., 6pp., with note to Mr Noma from Albert Speer, 29 Nov 2003; Sergeant G.R. Vazenry, Central Army records office, Vicroria barracks, Melbourne, to Editor Army Newspaper, 29 May 1969, in response to article on NGVR, 22 May, Ts., 1p.; T. Orejas, 'Wreckage of ';suicide' US warship found in Subic', Philippine Inquirer, 14 Nov 2003; 'Aust POWs return to Japan', ABC -AM Report, 19 Apr 2004, transcript: Tony Easrley, Mark Simkin, Neil Macpherson, Fuyuko Nishizato, Ts., 2pp.; Alan Gill, 'Without a Trace' Good Weekend, 17 Nov 2003 (?), 3pp.; Alan Gill, 'Obscure tragedy recalled on Anzac Day', SMH, 22 Apr 1987; Patricia Hopper, letter to Editor SMH, in response to article by Alan Gill above, pointing out that there is a memorial to the men who perished in the Montevideo Maru on the foreshores of Rabaul harbour, Ts., 1p.; Hisashi Noma, letters to Albert Speer, 2 and 12 Dec 2003; Letters to Albert Speer from Dept of PM and Cabinet, 20 Nov 2003, and Senator Robert Hill, 12 Jan 2004, re Montevideo Maru; Tony Stephens, 'Diggers Rest', SMH News Review, 29-30 Jun 2002; Neil Wilson, 'Witness raises hope on survivors', Herald-Sun, 28 Jun 2003; 'Death, No Trial. Jap. Genreal's Order', SMH, 9 Apr 1947; Anne McCosker, 'Australian Women in Papua New Guinea', Una Voce, No.1, 1994; Anne McCosker, 'At birth I heard the drums',and 'Preamble', Una Voce, No.4, 1995; Albert Speer, letter to Hisashi Noma, 29 Nov 2003, ms., 2pp., p/c; Don Wall, Heroes at Sea, 1991, exctracts re sinking of the Montevideo Maru, p/c; Yuki Tahaka, Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II, extracts, p/c; copy of letter from John L. May to Rev. G.E. Johnson, 26 Nov 1945, re Dan Oakes' departure from Rabaul on the Montevideo Maru in June 1942, Ts., 2pp.; Commemorative Service for those who died 1st July 1942 on board the Montevideo Maru, Ballarat Botanical Gardens, 7 Feb 2004.

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

Subjects:

Pacific
Society and culture

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