Collection relating to NX56205 Leslie Milton Manwaring, 2/19th Australian Infantry Battalion.

Group portrait of members of A Company, 2/19th Battalion at Port Dickson, Malaya. The Battalion was captured by the Japanese in the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 and most of the men were either killed in action (KIA) or held as prisoners of war (POW). Reverse of print includes the names or signatures, service numbers, and home towns of some of those pictured.

Identified from left to right, back row: NX35370 Sergeant (Sgt) Desmond Henry Mulcahy (POW); J Jones; Private (Pte) Victor George Gosling (later Corporal and POW) ; NX60547 Pte James Harold Longmire (POW); W Evans, possibly NX60172 Pte Cyril Wallace Evans (POW); NX60372 Pte Charles Gibson Sykes (POW); NX26364 Pte Laurence Eli Pollock (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX10767 Pte Alfred Manwaring (POW); NX19873 Pte Walter John Burns (POW); NX27855 Pte William Joseph Lyons (POW); NX35914 Pte David Ness (Reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 15 February 1942); ); NX43501 Pte Lionel Keith McKenzie (POW); NX53830 Pte Reginald John Peters (POW); NX60365 Pte Robert Leslie Horne (POW); NX35245 Pte Albert James Hopkins (POW); NX35684 Pte Sylvester Redman (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX29722 Pte William Dyett (POW); NX35973 Pte Raymond Henry Harris ( Died of illness in Thailand on 20 June 1943 as a POW); NX60348 Pte Eric Ronald Davis (Died of illness in Japan on 28 April 1943 as a POW); NX60333 Pte Laurence Aloysius O'Brien (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX26890 Pte Albert James Harper (died of illness as a POW in Japan on 19 February 1945); NX52263 Pte Douglas Haig Tate (POW); Caster; NX51889 Cpl Robert Bowen Ivers (KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942); NX56953 Sgt James Gibson Philip (POW); NX32742 Cpl Mark James Mellare Tome (Died at sea as a POW following the sinking of the Rakuyo Maru on 13 September 1944).

Second row: R Fanauds, possibly NX36050 L Cpl Mervyn Robert Farrands (POW); NX60366 Pte Albert Hercules Whipp (POW); NX60171 Pte Francis Leslie Corcoran (died in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo on 10 July 1945); T. Wall; NX36020 Pte Edward James Lee (POW); NX60272 Pte John Joseph Piggott KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX59619 Sgt Jack Christie (Reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); Sgt J Cladle; NX59902 Sgt Raymond Charles Myors, Company Quartermaster Sergeant (POW); NX58094 Lt John Gregg Weily, 7 Platoon (POW); NX59618 Lt John Maclean Ritchie, 9 Platoon (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX34932 Captain Charles Hughes Cousens Officer Commanding (POW); NX34902 Captain Frank Garland Beverley, Second in Command (POW); Crawford, either NX35616 Pte Herbert Crawford (POW) or NX51989 Pte Macedon Crawford (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX59399 Warrant Officer 2 (WO2) Frank Bertram Brady, Company Sergeant Major (reported missing presumed KIA on 11 February in Malaya); NX51867 Sgt Frank Thomas Lobb (Died of illness in Thailand on 13 August 1943 as a POW); NX60379 Corporal Horace Hewson (Died of illness in Burma on 10 November 1943 as a POW); O Smith; L McGlade; NX52459 Pte Arthur Thomas Pearson (POW); NX60225 Pte Mervyn Francis Moore (Died at the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo on 13 February 1945); NX58573 Pte Reginald Thurlow (reported missing presumed dead in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX35477 Lance Corporal John Angus Rivett (Missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 11 February 1942); Pte A Wilson, possibly NX35671 Private (Pte) Frederick James Wilson (POW); R Cave.

Third row: NX60193 Pte Allen Raymond Jennings (KIA in Malaya on 20 January 1942); NX60185 Pte Gordon Summerbelle Johnstone (Reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 11 February 1942); NX35635 Pte Leslie Joseph Quinlivan (Reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); ); NX35550 Pte Terence John Kelly (died of illness as a POW in Thailand on 8 July 1943); G Cousens; NX52534 Pte Cecil Andrew Fell (KIA in Malaya on 15 February 1942); NX60270 Pte Archie Edward Armitt (reported missing presumed KIA on 22 January 1942 in Malaya); NX60258 Pte William Henry Sheridan (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX32671 Pte John Bede Quigly (missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX51690 Pte John Maskell (died of illness in Thailand on 18 June 1943 while a POW); NX58630 Pte Joseph Greenan (POW); NX27894 Pte Clifford Clarence Wright Gibbs (POW): NX35661 Private (Pte) Herbert ‘Bert’ Roberts (died as a POW at sea in the South West Pacific on 26 June 1944); NX60232 Pte Herbert Swan (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX36053 Pte George Robert Hewitt (POW); NX56948 Sgt Michael Murray (missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX56947 Sgt Stanley George Day (POW); NX25905 Cpl Thomas England Murray (POW); NX35932 Pte Donald James Carn (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942); NX35999 Pte Trevor James Thomas (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX32625 Pte Robert Edward Johnson (POW); NX39776 Acting Corporal William Charles Sinclair (died at sea as a POW when the Rakuyo Maru was sunk on 12 September 1944); NX60195 Pte Alfred Ernest Rumph (POW); NX20438 Pte Edward James Bernard Hunt (POW); NX54364 Pte Harold Robert Williams (KIA in Malaya on 11 February 1942); NX56101 Cpl William Geoffrey Millard (died at sea as a POW on 17 September 1944 following the sinking of the Rakuyo Maru).

Front row: NX65527 L Cpl Edward Raymond Ivers (KIA in Malaya on 20 January 1942); NX60360 Pte John Gallagher (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX53830 Pte Reginald John Peterson (POW); NX52460 Pte Ellis Starr (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX34033 Pte Curtis Grafton Hunt (POW); NX58964 Pte Reginald Francis Meade (KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942); NX60346 Lance Corporal John Bowman (POW); Pte L Clarke; NX36039 Pte Stanley James Ledwidge (died of disease in Burma on 19 June 1942); C Walker, probably NX49633 Cpl Neil Campbell Walker (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 15 February 1942); NX58890 Pte Albert Sidney Dwyer (died of illness while a POW in Thailand on 7 August 1945); R Brown; NX60329 Pte Allan Laverty (died at sea as a POW in the sinking of the Rakuyo Maru on 12 September 1944); NX35769 Corporal (Cpl) William Edwin Ferguson (KIA in Malaya on 16 January 1942); NX48761 Pte William Frederick Baker (KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); R Sleeder; NX35590 Pte Charles Arthur Edwards (POW); K Roberts; NX60197 Pte Walter Edward Rye (POW); NX35863 Cpl Richard Arthur Rule (KIA in Malaya on 20 January 1942); NX60362 Pte James Merton Fitzgibbon (reported missing presumed KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX55430 Pte George Norman Harding (died of illness in Thailand while a POW on 5 October 1943); NX35479 Cpl Reginald Rowlands (POW).

Identifications obtained from photograph P00102.006 (see for same portrait).