Nixon, Rae Norman (Lieutenant)

Places	Asia: Burma Asia: Burma Thailand Railway Asia: Burma Thailand Railway, Chungkai Asia: Burma Thailand Railway, Tamarkan Asia: Burma Thailand Railway, Wampo Asia: Singapore, Changi Asia: Thailand Europe: United Kingdom, England Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney
Accession Number	PR00412
Collection type	Private Record
Record type	Collection
Measurement	7 wallets: 7 cm
Object type	Papers, Sketchbook
Maker	Nixon, Rae Norman Nixon, Rae Norman
Place made	Thailand
Date made	1942-1994
Access	Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room.	AWM371 94/0432
Conflict	Period 1950-1959 Period 1970-1979 Period 1960-1969 Second World War, 1939-1945 Period 1990-1999 Period 1980-1989 Period 1940-1949

Description

Collection relating to NX76556 Lieutenant Rae Norman Nixon, 8 Division Signals. The collection is comprised of material collected by Nixon relating to his imprisonment in various camps along the Burma Thailand railway during the Second World War. News clippings, correspondence and written accounts are included. The collection also contains a notebook containing the A Force Signals nominal roll and sketches of costumes designed by Nixon for the prisoners of war theatre productions at Tamarkan POW camp. Other papers comprise notes compiled by Nixon on the work carried out by Dr Christoffel Jacobus van Boxtel with other doctors in POW camps on the Burma Thailand Railway.

History / Summary

Nixon's papers include a number of intricate and detailed coloured pen and pencil illustrations of costumes he designed for the prisoner of war theatre at Tamarkan.