Papers, ca. 1942-1973 [manuscript]. ca. 1942-1973.

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Papers, ca. 1942-1973 [manuscript]. ca. 1942-1973.

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Papers relating to World War 2 prisoner of war camps in Java, including camp memorabilia and press cuttings. Also, a folder of press cuttings and letters relating to Major Arthur Moon. A typescript account of Tamarkan P.O.W. Hospital. Japanese P.O.W. post cards and a typescript of radio messages sent to his wife. Piece of yellow tissue impregnated with rat poison in which the diaries and watercolours were wrapped prior to being buried and a copy of the "King's Quotation" carried by Major Moon throughout the War.

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Moon, Arthur, 1902-1973.

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Arthur Alexander Moon was born in New South Wales in 1902. In the years prior to World War II he established a medical practice in Macquarie Street, Sydney as an obstetrician and gynaecologist. Initially in 1940 he was with the 2/4th Field Ambulance, until, at the request of Colonel "Weary" Dunlop, transferred to the 2/2nd Casualty Clearing Section in 1941. Major Moon together with "Weary" Dunlop and others sailed with the 2/2nd CCS from Suez on the Orcades. They set up the No. 1 Allied Field Ho...

Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd (1939-1946)

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