Around the world, 1939-1945

 
Component identifier:
File 1989/1/3
Content Summary:

Service on troop ship Orion; among troops boarding at Bristol contigent of Australian Royal Engineers; joining convoy; entertainment on board ('two up'); sick parade and minor surgery; Freetown; collision with Revenge; Cape Town - Australian's unkempt image; Bombay; Colombo; Singapore - tour of city, duty at Queen Alexandra Hospital; Orion repaired; tension in city among Malays and Chinese; Japanese bombing raids (8 December 1941); sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse; hospital on war footing; Japanese landings in Malay peninsula; loaded with evacuees bound for Australia (31 December 1941); Fremantle 'a dump of a place'; Perth; Melbourne 'clean and neat'; Sydney - doing the sights; billeted at Sydney showground; Kuringi; voyage to Auckland; Australian air crews on board; better reception by the New Zealanders than received in Australia; comparative treatment of Aboriginals/Maoris; voyage across Pacific via Panama; wireless blackout; voyage to Halifax to take on Canadian troops; Canadians take over command of the ship; docking at Gourock.

114p and p81 (miscellaneous) (typescript).

Processing information:
M2569

Online content

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
Available for Access.
Parent Terms of Access:
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material. Permission to publish these papers or any part thereof must be sought from The Contemporary Medical Archives Centre. Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Euston Road, London.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
Contact: