Notebook of Charles Laurie Price

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Accession Number AWM2019.22.168
Collection number PR03336
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type Item
Item count 1
Object type Notebook
Physical description 27 Image/s captured
Maker Price, Charles Laurie
Place made Singapore
Date made 1942-1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Source credit to This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.
Description

Notebook relating to the Second World War service of NX55503 Staff Sergeant Charles Laurie Price, 10 Australian General Hospital.

Price was a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and was interned at Changi and Kranji camps in Malaya between 1942 and 1945. This notebook contains a written copy of a report concerning the conditions of prisoners of war in Thailand in 1943 and written copies of Selarang Special Orders One, Two and Three by Colonel E.B. Holmes relating to the Selarang Barracks Incident. Price’s notebook also includes notes on Malay language, horses, and “food fancies”.