| Place | Asia: Borneo, Tarakan |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | PR00719 |
| Collection type | Private Record |
| Record type | Collection |
| Measurement | 1 wallet: 1 cm; plus 3 oversize items |
| Object type | Papers |
| Maker |
Monk, Clive |
| Date made | 1945-1991 |
| Access | Open |
| Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM371 95/0688 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Monk, Clive (Flight Lieutenant, b.1915 - d.1992)
Description
Typescript account titled 'Clive Monk's Journal' of his war service, particularly his part in the Allied attack on Tarakan in May and June 1945. Monk was a Senior Mechanical Engineer Officer (Flight Lieutenant) in No. 1 Airfield Construction Squadron (serving later in 62 Works Wing). The account is critical of the RAAF higher command's conception, planning and execution of this operation, one of whose aims was to construct an airfield to facilitate air support to continuing operations against Japanese forces on Borneo. Also includes an issue of 'Wings' with an article on the Tarakan landing; a GHQ Southwest Pacific Area terrain evaluation 'Tarakan Island North Borneo'; and comic-style posters titled 'Tit-Bits from Darwin' (with crude and racist caricatures of Aboriginal women) and 'The Anjo Landing', drawn by cartoonist Eric Jolliffe.