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  1. Brownlow Medal : Corporal L A 'Peter' Chitty, 2/2 Australian Motor Ambulance Convoy

    Heraldry

    Maker: Robert Pringle & Sons Unknown

    Small circular sterling silver medallion with a decorative scroll attached to the top. The front of the medallion has a hammered finish with a gold shield in the centre. The shield is surrounded by a ...

    REL32808

  2.

    Button embroidered with flowers : Mrs C M Levison (nee Touw), civil internee

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    Small fabric covered button with embroidered cotton flowers. There are seven flowers in all. One of each, in red, purple, light green, dark blue, orange, light blue, and yellow. The reverse side of th...

    REL25336

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    Civilian internees armband : B 3681 Alice Neville, Yangchow Civil Assembly Centre 3, Shanghai

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    Red cotton lace-up armband with black embroidered number 'B 3681'.

    REL25080

  4.

    Civilian internees cotton armband : B392 Ruth Frances Brown, Yanchow Camp, Shanghai.

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    Red cotton lace-up armband with black printed number 'B392' on outward facing surface. White tape letter 'F' on inward facing surface. Black ink circular stamp 'BRA - BRITISH RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION OF ...

    REL25090

  5.

    Colonel Edward "Weary" Dunlop and Captain Jacob Markowitz working on a thigh amputation, Chungkai

    Art

    Maker: Chalker, Jack

    Two doctors, with two assistants, operating in the hospital theatre at Chungkai. The theatre was a small area of about twelve square feet within a bamboo and attap hut lined with old green mosquito ne...

    ART91848

  6.

    Cut throat razor : Sergeant S Bryant-Smith, 2/29 Battalion

    Heraldry

    Maker: T R Cadman & Sons, Sheffield

    Folding cut throat type razor with black bakelite handle. Razor is stored in a handmade webbing pouch with button closure, and a remnant cardboard sleeve. Black bakelite handle is stamped in gold on o...

    REL25220

  7.

    Dental Instruments : Surgeon Lieutenant S E L Stening, RAN

    Heraldry

    Maker: Glasgow, Robert Valentine

    Three improvised dental instruments - a root elevator, excavator and scaler, made from fencing wire.

    RELAWM30730

  8.

    Embroidered 'Australian Changi quilt': Female internees, Changi Prison

    Heraldry

    Maker: Aldworth, Edna Jessie Auger, Beatrice Maud 'Trixie' Austen-Hofer, Eunice Elizabeth Barnes, Betsy Florence Nea ‘Nea’ Bell, Mary Elizabeth Blackman, Elaine de Souza Blackman, Hazel Ivy Bloom, Freddy Bond, Elizabeth 'Betty' Boston, Joan Margaret Brown, Iris Dora Bruhn, Sheila Philomena Winifred Burgin, Valerie Roberts Burns, Margaret Burstall, Mary Louise Cogan, Geraldine Mary Corley, Constance Doris Haigh 'Doris' Cornelius, Mary Dorothy 'Dorothy' Early, Sheila Ennis, Marion Elizabeth 'Elizabeth' Fletcher, Lucy Francis, Edith May 'Kay' Good, Dorothy G E ‘Judy’ Gottlieb, Valentine Gladys 'Gladys' Gough, Elise Rose Griffith-Jones, Anne Laugharne Phillips Grist, Isobel Jeanne Harness, Caroline Annie Heath, Kathleen Margaret Hegarty, Bridget Hughes, Mary Campbell Crawford Chalmers Hunt, Ena Jenkins, Isobel Helen Jones, Eileen Jones, Nora Janet Kennard, Kathleen Getrude La Cloche, Alice Louise Lacey, Hilda Grace Latta, Helen Anne Logan, Diana Margaret MacKenzie, Sybil Kathleen Macdonald, Dorothy Mather, Dorothy May McCubbin, Jessie McIntosh-Whyte, Joan Mary McIntyre, Vera Amy Victoria McIvor, Judy McMorine, Martha Garrick Millard, Betsey Mitchell, P J Moir, Ellen Agnes Mulvany, Ethel Rogers Murphy, Edith Harle Hickie Nealson, J H Pape, Agnes Milroy Parfitt, Iris Gladys Joyce Rackham, Anne Reilly, Rodney Florence Russell-Davis, Freda Elaine Scott, Mary Pearl Shorthouse, Muriel Smalley, Betty I Smallwood, Margaret Sowerby, Olive Stanley-Cary, Joan Frances Lois Thomas, Mary Tompkins, Lilian Gladys 'Gladys' Uniacke, Elizabeth Mary Unknown internee Von Hagt, Ethne Von Hagt, Violet Walker, Barbara Watson, Alice May 'May' Watson, Marjory Webster, Marie Alma Whitehead, Irene Williams, Gladys Marion Williams, Sue Wills, Helen Redpath Logan de Moubray, Katherine Mary

    Quilt made up of 66 embroidered squares, each 'signed' in embroidery with the maker's name. All the squares are edged with turkey red chain-stitch. The squares are bounded by a broad white cotton bord...

    REL/14235

  9.

    Embroidered calico apron : Civil Internee Gwyneth Brown, Yangchow Camp, Shanghai

    Heraldry

    Maker: Brown, Gwyneth

    Calico apron with neck loop and behind the back ties. There are numerous multi-coloured embroidered signatures, underlaid with the signatory's camp occupation, randomly scattered across the apron. 'YA...

    REL25088

  10.

    Embroidered 'Japanese Changi quilt': Female internees, Changi Prison

    Heraldry

    Maker: Aitken, Violet Pauline Austen-Hofer, Eunice Elizabeth Beck, Helen Bell, Mary Elizabeth Bloom, Freddy Bridges, Grace Broadbent, Maud Brown, Iris Dora Burns, Margaret Clark, Muriel Graham Cutler, Rona Clements De Jager, Toosje Dickinson, Contance Ethel ‘Pauline’ Dixon, Norah Edwards, Joyce Edwards, Mary Evans, A Francis, Edith May 'Kay' Greaves, Florence Gregory, Minnie Rosamund Hancock, Clarice Heath, Kathleen Margaret Hegarty, Bridget Henderson, Jean Hooper, Wantar N'nakon Hughes, Mary Campbell Crawford Chalmers Iris Jackson, Priscilla Hannah Jamieson, Alice Mary Elizabeth Lawtie Jones, Eileen Jones, Nora Janet King, Eveline Mary Kinnear, Gwendolyn Edith Allen Kitts, Rhoda Margaret Koek, Cynthia Kronin, Angela Lacey, Caroline Lindsay, Evelyn Gladys Loveridge, Edith Annie Martin, Looleen Anna Martin, Nellie Maunder McCubbin, Jessie McLeod, Ethel Cory Moir, Ellen Agnes Morier, M Mulvany, Ethel Rogers Murphy, Kathleen B L 'Pat' Palomar, Leonora Patterson, Violet May Hilda Pearson, Eileen Mary Rank, Minnie Louise Rattray, Emma Edith Lascelles Renton, Constance Ethel Russell-Davis, Freda Elaine Ruthven, Dora Lansdale Sadler, Eva Maud Scott, Mary Pearl Stafford, Nora Ethel Sullivan, Anne Muriel Tan, Ruth Kathleen Uniacke, Elizabeth Mary Unknown internee White, Helen Dorothy Wickett, Mary June Willies, Ada Wood, Florence

    Handmade quilt constructed from 66 embroidered or appliquéd squares each ‘signed’ in embroidery with the maker(s) name. All the squares are edged with turkey red feather-stitch. The squares are bounde...

    RELAWM32526

  11.

    Embroidered skirt made by female internees in Changi Gaol, May 1942

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    Short, fine white linen circular dance skirt with left side placket opening fastened by a single press stud and a waistband fastened by two metal hooks and eyes. Down the front are listed 19 numbers p...

    REL33930

  12.

    Handkerchief embroidered with signatures of Dutch 'Comfort Women' at the 'House of the Seven Seas', Semarang, Java

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    Woman's white cotton handkerchief with a three band border. The edges have been decorated with aqua coloured button-hole stitching. Seven signatures in shades of blue, brown and violet, and the date '...

    REL26396

  13.

    Handmade cigarette box : Private J McGowan, 2/9 Field Ambulance

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    Handmade aluminium cigarette box with a curved hinged lid. The lid is engraved with and image of Changi Gaol and a scroll bearing the words 'CHANGI J. McGOWAN GAOL'. The base of the case is engraved '...

    REL/17494

  14.

    Josephine the kangaroo : Australian Army prisoner of war nurses, Palembang, Sumatra

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    Stuffed toy female kangaroo and joey made from fine khaki cotton twill stuffed with plant matter, supported by an internal steel wire armature in the hind legs, back and tail. The main seams are machi...

    RELAWM30212

  15.

    Mahjong set : Sister C M Delforce, 2/10 Australian General Hospital

    Heraldry

    Maker: Various

    Hand made mahjong set comprising a set of tiles with traditional markings executed in watercolours and ink, a collection of wooden betting sticks, and a pair of dice.

    REL/11882

  16.

    Melbourne Cup awarded for a Frog Race Meeting run by the Adam Park Racing Club, Singapore, 1942

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    Improvised trophy cup made of two parts of a coconut shell joined together in the centre by a nut and bolt. Each side of the cup has a curved metal handle attached by two small nuts and bolts. The cup...

    RELAWM31985

  17.

    Model sailing boat made in Changi : Privates W C Barton and W J Harrison, Federated Malay States Volunteer Forces

    Technology

    Maker: Barton, William Charles Harrison, William John

    Model two masted schooner with white painted hull, attached to a small fixed stand. The hull, masts and spars are made from tropical meranti wood. The deck has carved wooden hatches, two of which are ...

    REL/15884.001

  18.

    Netherlands Honourable Service Cross ribbon bar : Lieutenant Commander A P van Beurden

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    Netherlands Honourable Service Cross ribbon bar with two bronze stars attached. The ribbon is orange and green in colour.

    REL/21023.004

  19.

    Netherlands War Commemorative Cross : Lieutenant Commander A P Van Beurden, Royal Netherlands Naval Reserve

    Heraldry

    Maker: Koninklijke Begeer, Voorschoten

    Netherlands War Remembrance Cross with two clasps, "KRIJG TER ZEE 1940-1945" and "JAVAZEE 1941-1942". The medal is bronze, cross shaped with a central portrait of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands ...

    REL/21022.001

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    Netherlands War Commemorative Cross ribbon bar : Lieutenant Commander A P van Beurden

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    Netherlands War Commemorative Cross ribbon bar with two bronze stars attached. The ribbon is orange and green in colour.

    REL/21022.004

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