C. DONELLY V.X.46836 2/3 L.A.A. EX. P.O.W.
I enlisted on the 29/7/1940 and was drafted into the 2/3 Light Anti-Aircraft Artillery. I was stationed firstly at Caulfield and from there sent to Werribee. At both places we were stationed at the racecourse where we slept on straw palliasses in the concrete stands. Our training was done at Werribee and in December 1940 we sailed for Palestine on the ‘Mauretania’. Other ships in the convoy were Queen Mary, Aquitania, Dominion Monarch and Awatea. After some time in the desert we were then shipped to the island of Crete in the Mediterranean.
The German intention was to invade Crete by sea but the British Fleet sank all the invading boats and barges. The Island was then bombed solidly for two weeks, then Paratroopers were flown in of which hundreds were shot down and killed before the Germans finally made a landing at Maleme.
Here they set up a landing strip and finally overran the Island
The British ships ‘Imperial’, ‘Dido’, ‘Orion’ and ‘Hereward’ sailed in to evacuate the troops who boarded the ships during the night of May 28th.1941. At 5.30 am. on May 29th.,under heavy Stuka attack, the ‘Hereward ‘,the ship I was on , received a direct bomb which went straight down the funnel. Quite a number of our soldiers and British naval men were killed when the ship was hit, others went down with the ship but the majority jumped overboard and were picked up some hours later by Italian torpedo boats.
I had been in the water about six hours and have no recollection of being picked up by the torpedo boat. We were taken up to the beach of a small Island and, according to my mates, I was laid out with the dead bodies. Luckily, I eventually became conscious and, with others, was sent to Rhodes Island for three months, the first three weeks of which were spent in hospital because of exposure in the water.
We were issued with one set of underwear, one pair of socks, one pair of boots –mine were size 9-I take size 6-, one pair of trousers, one shirt, one jacket and two blankets. These were all the possessions we had as all our belongings went down with the ‘Hereward’.
We were then shipped to Italy and sent to a camp at Capura and from there to Bolzano in the north of Italy near the Brenner Pass. After some time we were moved to camp 57 at Gruppignano near Udine close to the Yugoslavian border. This infamous camp was under the command of Colonel Calcaterra. Details of this camp can be read in Malcolm Webster’s book, ‘An Italian Experience’ and Alex Barnett’s book, ‘ Hitler’s Digger Slaves’.
We spent about twelve months at this camp and were then sent to work in the rice fields on the Lombardy Plains for the next twelve months. Here our beds were three tiered bunks with thin straw mattresses. Our daily rations were as follows;
Macaroni or rice 66 gms
Bread 200 gms
Cheese 50 gms
Beans 30 gms
Coffee - made from acorns - 7 gms
Vegetables 30 gms
Meat and bone- which we were allotted every second week – 150 gms.
Macaroni, beans and vegetables- possibly stale cabbage leaves- were made into soup in the camp kitchen and when cooked it was very thin and we were each issued one
ladle at 11am. each day. In the afternoon we were issued with a bread roll. These rations were 7% above starvation point and this was our daily menu for twelve months.
Three hundred and eighty cases of beri beri went out of the camp in one day to the local hospitals.
The camp was crawling with lice and rats and we were allowed one shower a week.
In the winter we were often without water because of the intense cold and would have to melt snow to obtain water.
Hut searches were often carried out for hidden radios, maps and compasses so we were stood outside in the bitter cold of winter or the heat of summer from 8am.till night fall. Sniffer dogs were used and often turned on the men. At one stage I was imprisoned for a month in solitary confinement as some of us protested over the lack of food. I was handcuffed for ten hours a day for this period. My daily food consisted of two slices of dry bread and a drink of water. Bed was the floor with no blankets. It was impossible to walk after a month so I had to crawl back to the huts.
Red Cross parcels eventually came through but with much irregularity. These were supposed to be issued each week but if there was any trouble amongst the men they were withheld and sometimes the Italians stole some of the parcels so this meant the remaining parcels had to be shared. It was reported that an Italian Major was imprisoned for ten years for stealing parcels.
The contents of Red Cross parcels were:
Evaporated milk 400 gms
Lunch biscuits 250 gms
Cheese 250 gms.
Cocoa 250 gms
Sardines 500 gms.
Pork meat 375 gms
Corned beef 375 gms
Sweet chocolate 340 gms
Sugar 125 gms
Powdered Orange Cons. 200 gms
Prunes 500 gms
Instant coffee 125 gms
Cigarettes 2 20’s pkt.
Smoking tobacco 1 60 gr pkt.
This camp, 57,at Gruppignano, was known to be the worst camp in Italy.
There were many escape plans and it took 5 or 6 months to dig one tunnel (dug by
Western Australian miners) from which about 40 men escaped but most were recaptured next day. Punishment for trying to escape was severe beatings andimprisonment. The method used to disperse of the soil from the tunnels was to cut sleeves out of old shirts and attach them to the inside of the leg of the trousers and fill with the soil. It would then trickle away whilst walking around the compound.
Fences of barbed wire, about 15feet high, with an inner entanglement of wire, surrounded the camps. At each corner was a sentry box with a searchlight and a guard armed with a machine gun.
When Italy capitulated I was loose for sixteen days before being captured by German S.S. (Secret Service) troops. During this time I lived on what food I could find, mainly maize in the field and a few grapes if I was lucky. Some days I didn’t have any food at all. Once captured, I spent the night in the Turin gaol before being sent to Germany in cattle trucks. These trucks were so crowded it was impossible to lie down so we all had to take lying down in turns. This trip took three days and three nights. We were put into camp 344 then sent to a working camp, Lager 741,which was situated in Zwittaw near the Czechoslovakian and Old Sudatenland border. At this camp we were deloused, showered and issued with a new set of clothes. There were no lice in this camp in Germany. Here we were issued with extra food:
Bread 500 gms
Meat (old horse) 100 gms (not every day)
Coffee 150 gms (once a month)
Margarine 25 gms (believed to be an extract of coal)
Sugar 25 gms
Jam 25 gms (occasionally)
Cheese 10 gms
Oats 10 gms
Potatoes 500 gms (in soup)
Occasionally we had sauerkraut with caraway seeds. At one stage we were snowed in so no food came into the camp. We lived on swedes and mouldy black bread.
The coldest temperature during this period was 28* below and the warmest was 21* below. We wore all our clothes to bed and had two blankets but nothing would warm us, it was so cold. At this camp we worked for twelve months on building construction work and had to go to a quarry for stone for the foundations. This was during the severe winter so had to remove the snow and ice before we reached the stone, which was quarried with picks.
We were treated well by our guards who were older men and had been in W.W.1 and been POWs themselves. They were A1 compared to the stand over tactics of the Italian guards. I spent 2 ½ years in Italy and 1½ years in Germany. When the war ended we tried to reach the Americans at Pilsen about 500 miles away. We walked for days and everywhere we looked there were people going home. The roads were packed and 3 million came into Prague. The Germans bombed Prague for four days so there were dead lying everywhere. We met the Russians on 9/5/1945 at a town called Jablene (pronounced Gablene) on the Czechoslavakian border, then wewere caught up in a fight with three SS armies who would not surrender to the Russians. The SS were trying to get to the Americans in Pilsen. We eventually got to Prague where we spent five days. Whilst there, we saw the Russian victory march in that city. Upon arrival in Pilsen the Americans took us to Regensburg. On May 14thwe left by plane for Reims and then on to England. We arrived home in Australia in July 1945 on the ‘Stirling Castle’ after being away 1669 days.
The two most important things to come out of these events were the appreciation of our freedom, our country and the companionship and comradeship of the men.
One chap in our camp worked from the age of twelve on a station property at Tharlawindi in New South Wales. When war broke out he rode his horse 600 miles to Sydney to join up. He could neither read nor write. He celebrated his sixteenth birthday in the prison camp.
The Hereward by W.Dellar C.Troop 7th. Battery 2/3rdL.A.A.
It was early in the morning of the 29thof May
When she received the warning of Stukas on the way
‘Hereward, that grand old ship, a destroyer of the fleet
Was sorely overloaded with evacuees from Crete
Guarding her two mother ships, unable to manoeuvre
A fighter to the last, as records well will prove her,
Her four point sevens flinging death into the skies
Mingled with the chatter of her multiple point fives.
A near miss shook her plates and like noisy thunder,
One landed down below split boilers and pipes asunder.
With motive power silenced and guns destroyed on deck,
She lay upon the ocean a helpless floating wreck.
To leave the burning ship, was the order of the day,
Without panic or confusion but a little less delay.
Throwing floats and wreckage overboard and discarding all our gear,
We quickly followed after into Father Neptune’s care.
A south east swell was rolling, the water icy most,
As we bravely struggled onwards towards the distant coast.
Above, the Stukas glided to the object of their quest,
Till battled scarred and burning she slid to her last rest.
For five long hours we labored at the mercy of the seas
Till rescued, wet and weary, by the Ities M.T.B’s.
Some killed on board by shrapnel, some perished in the sea,
And we picked up at long last, live in captivity.
But when the war is over, and we are back at home,
We’ll think of them in future years who lie beneath the foam.
Those comrades of our hardships, and pals of high degree,
We’ll remember at reunions and drink to their eternity.
Written 5/10/41 at Prato Isarco (POW camp).
A Visit to Crete in Memory of 1941
Crete, in 1941, was a disaster for the locals, the Australians and their Allies - as well as the Germans. But out of this terrible campaign came Australian stories of fortitude, heroism and loss.
In May, 2018, a group of descendants from Victoria, NSW, WA and UK went to Crete to follow the stories of family members on a trip that took us over much of Crete with its rugged and raw mountains; its ancient towns, cities and structures. But above all, to meet its local people with whom there is a special bond with Australians that was forged over a few extraordinary months 77 years ago. The trip was the work of organiser and military historian Bim Affleck and his wife, Anna.
Our group went to the places and met some of the descendants of the people who were important to three uncles and a father who were variously in the Australian infantry battalions as well as the 2/3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment in 1941. But their stories and experiences would be similar to many in 7th Battery of the latter Regiment who served on Crete. Our group thus represented Doug Craig (senior) and Alec Dawkins who were taken off by the navy to the safety of Egypt, Jim Carstairs who successfully evaded the occupying forces for six months and Max Whiteside who died of wounds sustained at Maleme airfield on the first day of the first - and last – major airborne invasion.
As narrator, this account begins with my arrival in Patras, Greece, from where I drove to Athens via amemorial to the village of Kalavryta where the male population over 12yo (some 700 souls) was wiped out in Nazi reprisals in 1943. Kalavryta is now on the tourist bus route so the world can remember the horror of what was done and resolve for it never to happen again.
But life must go on ….
The contrasts of Greece!… On a back road through the mountains of the Peloponnese, this shepherd and his flock walk a scene that goes back to biblical times.
Then south east to Nafplion where there were over a hundred multi-million € ‘gin palaces’ tied up in the harbour in a champagne-fuelled sales pitch to the rich and famous.
Quite a contrast from 1941 when this harbour was the scene of many hurried escapes via naval ships bound for Crete after the Germans overtook Greece.
My final destination on the mainland was Athens and its Phaleron Commonwealth War Cemetery where Sergeant Max Whiteside is buried. Max was in charge of a Bofors anti-aircraft gun and these were the first targets in the initial airborne attack on Crete on 20/5/1941. He was seriously wounded and was hidden by his mates in the foothills for a couple of days and then flown back to hospital in Athens by the Germans before he died of wounds on 25/5/1941 aged 22. He was in the 7th Battery of the Australian 2/3rd LAA Regiment while my father Charles Luckock and uncle Griff Weatherly were in the 9th Battery of the same regiment. 9th Battery were also ear-marked for Crete before it fell but stayed in North Africa to be “well chased by Rommel” in what they jokingly called ‘the Benghazi Handicap’! 8thBattery were proudly ‘Rats of Tobruk’.
Then the ferry from Piraeus to Chania in Creteon a beautiful moonlit night … ….. to arrive the following morning into Souda Bay – peaceful now, but the scene of furious fighting in 1941.
Our group of Crete excursionaries then visited the nearby Commonwealth War Cemetery and established our base in the delightful Doma Hotel in Chania.
The Doma is owned by two elderly sisters and was once the British Consul and subsequently the German Headquarters during the occupation.
L to R Norm Craig, Bim Affleck (organiser), Julie Hope, Janet Gordon, Lachie Gordon, Pin Affleck, Anna Affleck, Russell Luckock, Jules Craig, Joy Craig, Sophie Holloway, Doug Craig.
So began our excursions to various points around Crete in hired cars with local driver/guide, Manos.
Maleme airfield and German War Cemetery
In 1941 Maleme airfield (pron Mal-em-ma) was the centre of the early German airborne attack using fighter and transport planes, towed gliders, and paratroops.
This photo shows the Maleme airfield which is now used for military purposes with tight security.
On the beach side of the airfield, this concrete construction for a gun-emplacement may be the remains of the base for the light anti-aircraft Bofors 40mm guns which were unfortunately and unwisely concreted in much to the dismay of the 2/3rd when they arrived. For the regiment’s usual practice in North Africa was to move the Bofors on their 4 wheels at night when expecting an attack - so that the Germans did not know where these effective anti-aircraft guns would be situated the following morning. (The concrete might also be subsequent German construction during their occupation.)
Max Whiteside’s letters home in early May 1941 said he ‘was 400 yards from the beach’ – so swims were part of their day in the Australian tradition. So I decided to have a swim for Max. Walking along the beach at the north side of the airfield, I was half-expecting to be followed by a military drone or some-such!
However, when driving beside the airfield on my return trip, I just happened to stop for a few minutes - only to look up to see two heavily armed and helmeted Greek soldiers taking a great interest in why I had stopped opposite a military airfield…… Needless to say, my stop was particularly brief!
The beach side of the Maleme airfield seems much as it was in 1941.
Is this still live!??
Photo in Nautical Museum of Crete, Akti Kountourioti St, Chania, Crete
This 1941 photo of Maleme airfield was on display in the museum in Chania and shows the dust and carnage of the initial airborne attack. The high ground at right is probably Hill 107 which was strategically important with its commanding view of the surrounding territory, including the Maleme airfield that was defended by 2/3rd LAA Bofors guns. The local Allied command headquarters was sited on the Hill until its capture by the Germans.
Max Whiteside would be somewhere in this photo.
The tragedy of war affects all sides. German losses in this massive airborne attack were horrendous such that Hitler banned their subsequent use. Photo shows the German War Cemetery on the south side of what was Hill 107.
While I was in the WW2 section of Chania’s Nautical Museum I was approached by a young man who had heard me speaking English and wanted to know why I was there. I explained. It turned out that he was a young German, born in East Germany now living outside Heidelberg, and he, Bert Lissner (right) and his girlfriend Cathleen were very concerned about what had been done in the past in their country’s name. We were joined by a Belgian couple (Leo, centre, and Marie-Paule Vande Velde) for an interesting discussion of what and why it had all happened.
42nd Street:
Another excursion in Chania was to 42ndStreet where Bim explained the battle and its consequences. Especially the short-term effects of the Maori regiment’s impromptu Haka attack led by the brilliant New Zealanders.
Brothers Norm (dark blue shirt) and Doug Craig (green shirt) were in Crete to follow their uncle who had managed to escape out of mainland Greece when it fell and then went aboard a navy ship from Chora Sfakien to Alexandria.
The battle for Crete lasted only a short time as the Germans managed to out-manoeuvre the ill-equipped Allied forces many of whom had only recently escaped from Greece with little equipment – especially for communications. It was touch and go until the Germans captured Maleme airfield, after which the Allied troops had to fight rear-guard actions and head south to a small fishing port on the south coast that faced across the Mediterranean to Egypt.
But first they had to scramble over the 2,450 m high White Mountains with its gorges that were the walking tracks in these seriously steep ranges.
Imbros Gorge
The intrepid walkers in our group set out to walk down the Imbros Gorge. And reached the bottom after some two hours twenty minutes.
It's a different story from walking back up as Jim Carstairs and his mates had to do after the navy ships departed Chora Sfakien without this rear-guard group. Back in 1941, boots were continually falling apart in the very rough, rocky terrain so that troops’ feet sometimes were wrapped in anything they could find or, worse still, in bare feet.
The heights and extremes to which some plant aficionados will go! Enthusiastic gardener Sophie discovers a plant that needs a closer look.
But this is seriously steep country … Indeed, the photographer was castigated for clicking the shutter rather than performing a gallant rescue!! But it clearly illustrates the type of country that the Allied troops had to traverse.
Askifou Museum:
There is a private military museum at Askifou near the Imbros Gorge with an old Bofors anti-aircraft gun outside - this one unusually equipped with a shield - and a good supply of raki for sale.
While I missed the group visit to this museum I hear say afterwards that there was a good deal of rakiing with the local Cretans who are well-known for their enthusiastic hospitality to Australians.
Chora Sfakien
The tiny fishing port on the south coast – from where many Allied troops were evacuated by various naval ships and transported to Alexandria in Egypt. Jim Carstairs’s Battalion, the Australian 2/7th however, formed the rear-guard that allowed the time to load the ships with escaping troop formations. Theywere eventually ordered to evacuate so scrambled down the steep slopes to the beach – but the ships had gone for good.
The Battalion was then lined up on the beach in formal order by their Commanding Officer, Colonel Theo Walker. He addressed his troops by saying that he considered it his duty to surrender to the Germans and to look after all who came with him. However, anyone who wanted to take their chances and escape was welcome to do so.
Many decided to try their luck (and skill) in evading the Germans until things quietened down and escape to Egypt could be organised. Jim Carstairs and his mates set off to scramble back up the mountains – this time with the extra threat from the ever-present German patrols.
This was a poignant moment for these troops. Having decided not to surrender on the Chora Sfakien beach, these men now faced the hell of climbing back up those blasted mountains – with their boots in tatters and short of food and particularly water – but also having to avoid enemy troops. They were now on their own and had to rely on their Australian-learned wits and skills.
On our group’s drive back up these steep mountain switchback roads, I was privileged to have Doug Craig as my passenger. The Peugeot purred … and Doug broke into the best recital of the The Man From Snowy River– that iconic Australian poem by Banjo Paterson – that I have ever heard. His spirited rendition and colouration were most memorable!
Together, we rode those ‘horses’ up, up ever upwards until we landed at the top of that terrible ascent. For Dougie sent the poetic flintstones flying in this rough and broken ground where many mountain gullies meet …. amongst these torn and rugged battlements on high!
A masterful recitation of an Australian masterpiece!
Vafes:At right, Janet Gordon reads from Jim Carstairs’ book at the group lunch at Vafes in central Crete where Jim was sheltered and fed by the local Cretans at great risk to themselves.
Local medicine was always interesting – especially when Jim had a severe bout of jaundice and his progress was followed closely by constant visits from the locals which was a problem if German patrols were in the area.
Patsos and the Cretan Network of Andartes.
The Cretans during the occupation proved a formidable force working with the Allies – and on their own – against the German occupation of their island.
We stayed a night in Patsos where a small rock shelter outside the village was important during the Germanoccupation of their island.
We stayed a night in Patsos where a small rock shelter outside the village was important during the German occupation. Our guide, Vasilis explained the 1941situation when, Evangelos Vandoulakis, and other locals hid Jim Carstairs at great risk to themselves and their village. They became great friends and this was the pattern between many Cretans and the Australians and New Zealanders in particular.
This friendship was apparent to me in September 1984 during a beach holiday near Rethymnon. One day, I drove up high into the White Mountains on my way to Chora Sfakien and stopped at a tiny shop in goat country with mountainous rocks and scrub – to come across an old walking-sticked man sitting outside. He wanted to know where I was from.
When we worked out ‘Australia’ he became most animatedly excited. “Australia gut: Germans nicht gut” he said in the language of the occupation that he had obviously witnessed.
In a separate 1944 operation conducted by British SOE officers Paddy Leigh Fermor and W.S. ‘Billy’ Moss with some locals, the German General Kreipe, in charge of Crete, was abducted and hidden in this same Patsos ‘cave’ before being walked over the mountains and thence to Egypt and captivity. In a famous literary incident while on the slopes of Mt Ida, the General quoted the first verse of Horace’s Ode 1.9 in Latin then stopped. Upon which Patrick Leigh Fermor finished it off – both from memory - learned during their pre-war years!
An Escape and a Capture
After visiting the Prevelli Monastery – the scene of many Allied escapes organised by these very brave church leaders - I departed the group as I had to head to Heraklion and home in a couple of days.
But first I drove to the small Peristere Beach, just a few hundred metres from Rodakino, from which General Kreipe was evacuated to Egypt and captivity by the British.
Upon asking the local café owner about tourism, he said there are now many German tourists coming to enjoy the south coast beaches as an escape from their northern winter.
Tris Ekklisies and Safety- A beach at the very small village of Tris Ekklisies (three churches) on the coast due south of Heraklion is where Jim Carstairs and a group of 78+ Allied troops escaped to Alexandria and freedom on the caique affectionately referred to as ‘HMS’ Hedgehog.
On the day I visited there had been significant rainfall so the main street was flooded just above the beach. I did not venture through this floodwater as a conked-out car would be inadvisable in this very remote village!
The beach is at the foot of a number of very steep mountainous ranges that now have a glorious newly-tarred road which descendsin a series of serious switchbacks. No doubt, European Union funds at work.
The new, wide tar, however, ends abruptly at the entrance to the village – so you then encounter pot-holed, stony, narrow streets!
Just imagine in 1941, though, descending these steep, rocky, mountains with your boots in tatters … but finally … they had escaped!
Postcript:But from all this comes hope. Hope epitomised by the busloads of tourists now stopping to witness the civilian massacre sites in Greece – and the young German couple who openly expressed their dismay to me at what had been done in the past in their country’s name.
Lest we forget.
Reading:
Carstairs, James de Mole, Escape from Crete: War Diary 1941, Society of Cretan Historical Studies, Heraklion, 2016. (Available from Historical Museum of Crete, Heraklion, €10 + p & p)
Rae, C J E, Harris, A L and Bryant, R K: On Target: The Story of the 2/3rdLight Anti-Aircraft Regiment. Enterprise Press, 1987.
2/3rdLight Anti-Aircraft Regiment website article on 2/4thLAA Bofors in the North Africa desert: https://www.antiaircraft.org.au/take-post/take-post-articles/days-in-the-desert
ARGUS (Melbourne, Vic.: 1848 - 1957), Tuesday 1 June 1943, page 6
PSYCHOLOGY TEST FOR LAND GIRLS
Because so many girls enlisted in the Women's Land Army have proved unsuitable for land work it has been suggested that girls enlisting in the Land Army should undergo a psychology test. This was discussed at the State Advisory Council meeting, and will be discussed again at the interstate conference of the organisation in Melbourne on June 8, 9 and 10. Also to help with the "settling down" of girls to their new life in the country, more matrons are to be trained. The first course of matrons began yesterday at the Land Army Instruction Depot, Mont Park.
Other matters discussed at the meeting and which will also be discussed at the conference are accommodation, flax mill training and the bringing into line of the AWLA with the other women's services. It has been decided to make representations to have members included in the Australian Comforts Fund distribution, and for concession fares on trains and trams. The question of accommodation will be thoroughly explored, and where possible girls will be billeted in private homes.
More girls are urgently needed for flax work, and it is likely that they will be employed not only in the field, but also in flax mills, for which they would have to receive additional training. About 60% of the girls who have joined the Land Army have enlisted for permanent service, while 33% have volunteered for seasonal work.
The YWCA has volunteered to send a letter to each member of the AWLA offering to help the girls in their shopping, with a lending library, correspondence course, or in any way with sports in their district.
AUXILIARY WORKERS FOR P O W
An organisation working quietly and unobtrusively for prisoner of war funds is the 3rd Light Anti-Aircraft POW Adoption Fund, which in less than 2 years has raised 4,000 pounds by means of luncheons, bridge parties, raffles, and participation in two big market fairs.
The auxiliary was formed by relatives and friends in July 1941, after many of the men in the Regiment were captured on Crete. However, not only their own men, but other prisoners of war are helped by the auxiliary. The latest effort is a raffle for a chest of linen, a similar raffle last year raising 1,125 pounds. Helpers are needed to sell tickets for this raffle, and also to assist with the Friday luncheons, held from 12 to 2 in the Commercial Bank Buildings, 245 Elizabeth Street. President of the fund is Mrs. H. Curtis, and secretary Miss E. Rolling, Windsor 8887
ARGUS (Melbourne, Vic.: 1848 - 1957), Tuesday 1 June 1943, page 6
PSYCHOLOGY TEST FOR LAND GIRLS
Because so many girls enlisted in the Women's Land Army have proved unsuitable for land work it has been suggested that girls enlisting in the Land Army should undergo a psychology test. This was discussed at the State Advisory Council meeting, and will be discussed again at the interstate conference of the organisation in Melbourne on June 8, 9 and 10. Also to help with the "settling down" of girls to their new life in the country, more matrons are to be trained. The first course of matrons began yesterday at the Land Army Instruction Depot, Mont Park.
Other matters discussed at the meeting and which will also be discussed at the conference are accommodation, flax mill training and the bringing into line of the AWLA with the other women's services. It has been decided to make representations to have members included in the Australian Comforts Fund distribution, and for concession fares on trains and trams. The question of accommodation will be thoroughly explored, and where possible girls will be billeted in private homes.
More girls are urgently needed for flax work, and it is likely that they will be employed not only in the field, but also in flax mills, for which they would have to receive additional training. About 60% of the girls who have joined the Land Army have enlisted for permanent service, while 33% have volunteered for seasonal work.
The YWCA has volunteered to send a letter to each member of the AWLA offering to help the girls in their shopping, with a lending library, correspondence course, or in any way with sports in their district.
AUXILIARY WORKERS FOR P O W
An organisation working quietly and unobtrusively for prisoner of war funds is the 3rd Light Anti-Aircraft POW Adoption Fund, which in less than 2 years has raised 4,000 pounds by means of luncheons, bridge parties, raffles, and participation in two big market fairs.
The auxiliary was formed by relatives and friends in July 1941, after many of the men in the Regiment were captured on Crete. However, not only their own men, but other prisoners of war are helped by the auxiliary. The latest effort is a raffle for a chest of linen, a similar raffle last year raising 1,125 pounds. Helpers are needed to sell tickets for this raffle, and also to assist with the Friday luncheons, held from 12 to 2 in the Commercial Bank Buildings, 245 Elizabeth Street. President of the fund is Mrs. H. Curtis, and secretary Miss E. Rolling, Windsor 8887
| Badge | LNAME | Fname | Title | MbCateg | MbStat | BirthDate | JoinDate | Deceased | ServID | Unit | Awards |
| 2111 | ALBREY | Norman George | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 27/11/1913 | 21/06/1940 | 15/12/1972 | VX40007 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| ALMOND | Leslie Wilfred | Pte | Ordinary | Vale | 27/11/1911 | 20/06/1940 | VX33399 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| 3472 | AUSTIN | Gordon George | LBom | Ordinary | 11/06/1919 | 18/07/1940 | VX44538 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| BARKER | Bryan | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 8/01/1919 | 24/06/1940 | 2/05/1992 | VX32151 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 2427 | BARLOW | Geoffrey Charles | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 12/08/1907 | 5/08/1940 | VX38006 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| BARNETT | Alexander Joseph R | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 19/09/1920 | 10/07/1940 | 23/05/2007 | VX41455 | 2/3 LAA Reg | POW | |
| 3136 | BELL | Ian Halbert | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 5/10/1916 | 9/07/1940 | ../07/1966 | VX40833 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| BELL | James Tweeddale | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 11/08/1916 | 10/06/1940 | 29/07/1994 | VX21053 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 1903 | BELL | Keith Oswald | Pte | Ordinary | 19/04/1919 | 13/07/1940 | VX37243 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| 3118 | BERKLEY | Jack Rae | SSgt | Ordinary | Vale | 21/06/1920 | 15/07/1940 | 5/04/2012 | VX36173 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| BIRD | Leo James | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 17/09/1908 | 5/07/1940 | VX43209 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| 1257 | BONE | Herbert Randolph | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 9/02/1915 | 12/07/1940 | ../06/1985 | VX46570 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 3243 | BOURKE | Walter James | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 12/10/1912 | 26/07/1940 | 14/12/1998 | VX46399 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 2685 | BRIGHT | Edward Laurence J | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 26/02/1914 | 30/07/1940 | 09/10/2007 | VX38277 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 0049 | BUTLER | Cecil Keith | Lieut | Ordinary | Vale | 8/03/1909 | 8/07/1940 | 30/11/1988 | VX41867 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 2652 | CALLISTER | Ralph Leonard | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 6/03/1907 | 2/08/1940 | 30/04/1973 | VX37039 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| CAMPBELL | John Selby | WO2 | Ordinary | 21/04/1920 | 30/07/1940 | VX38276 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||||
| CAMPBELL | Robert Gordon | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 24/03/1914 | 30/07/1940 | VX38262 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| 2951 | CARTER | William Hamilton | LSgt | Ordinary | Vale | 15/04/1905 | 12/06/1940 | VX25552 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| CLIFFORD | Wallace Stanley | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 19/04/1919 | 21/06/1940 | ../12/1997 | VX33303 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| COURTNEY | Edward James | Spr | Ordinary | Vale | 21/11/1909 | 2/06/1940 | VX24598 | 2/3 LAA Reg | MM | ||
| COWIE | James Gordon | Gnr | Fallen | KIA | 4/04/1920 | 19/06/1940 | 25/09/1941 | VX33224 | 2/3 LAA Reg | MID | |
| CROFTS | Gordon Simpson | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 25/04/1920 | 29/07/1940 | 09/07/2012 | VX47878 | 2/3 LAA Reg | POW | |
| 3121 | CUTTRISS | Clarence Nixon | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 24/05/1917 | 8/07/1940 | 11/06/1977 | VX41642 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 2308 | DAVEY | Leo Ayres | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 21/04/1913 | 18/06/1940 | VX31750 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 3148 | DAVIS | Linton John | Maj | Ordinary | 10/09/1915 | 6/05/1940 | VX14123 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| 2324 | DAWSON | Thomas William | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 12/07/1908 | 24/09/1940 | VX38866 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| DELAHUNTY | John Thomas | Sgt | Ordinary | 19/08/1920 | 13/06/1940 | VX19595 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||||
| 2481 | DUKE | Arthur | Bom | Ordinary | Vale | 19/08/1909 | 9/07/1940 | 13/03/1960 | VX40993 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| DUNN | Jack | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 2/02/1913 | 6/08/1940 | 13/06/1999 | VX48062 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 3390 | ELLARD | Nathaniel Thomas | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 23/07/1918 | 24/06/1640 | 25/03/1988 | VX33644 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| EVANS | Donald De Lacy | Gnr | Fallen | DOW | 9/04/1914 | 21/06/1940 | 25/09/1941 | VX23633 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 1048A | FARR | Alfred R | LBom | Ordinary | Vale | 18/06/1910 | 23/07/1940 | 20/03/1991 | VX36803 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| FELLOWS | Gordon George | Cfn | Ordinary | Vale | 17/02/1920 | 10/07/1940 | 13/01/1999 | VX45773 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 1880 | GENT | Ivan Ray | Cfn | Ordinary | Vale | 8/09/1913 | 24/06/1940 | 30/12/1981 | VX31598 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 2465 | GOWTY | George William | Pte | Ordinary | Vale | 4/05/1911 | 21/06/1940 | 31/12/1966 | VX29822 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 2350 | GREENWOOD | Edward | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 7/05/1910 | 17/06/1940 | VX31973 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 0169 | GRIMWADE | John Frederick T | WO2 | Ordinary | Vale | 16/09/1905 | 15/07/1940 | ../11/1992 | VX43343 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 3385 | GROSS | Robert Joseph | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 20/09/1918 | 18/06/1940 | 20/08/1991 | VX28046 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 0974A | GUY | Andrew Keith | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 2/10/1912 | 23/07/1940 | 21/09/1996 | VX37836 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 0179 | HALLETT | Harold Walter | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 20/07/1909 | 24/06/1940 | VX32035 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| HARDINGHAM | Samuel James | Gnr | Fallen | KIA | 26/02/1920 | 18/06/1940 | 25/09/1941 | VX28047 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| HARRIS | Thomas Jackson | Capt | Ordinary | Vale | 12/01/1915 | 9/05/1940 | 12/05/1971 | VX14643 | 2/3 LAA Reg | MC | |
| 2383 | HARROWER | Eric James | Bom | Ordinary | Vale | 30/11/1907 | 18/06/1940 | 28/02/1996 | VX24479 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 3033 | HAWKEY | Thomas Ralph | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 27/10/1917 | 23/07/1940 | 22/09/2008 | VX35634 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 2256 | HAWTING | Richard John | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 11/12/1916 | 24/06/1940 | ../10/1997 | VX34208 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| HEATHCOTE | John G | Bom | Ordinary | Vale | 6/06/1909 | 18/06/1940 | VX30539 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| 2023 | HENHAM | Cyril James | Mr | Ordinary | 31/01/1918 | 18/06/1940 | VX28034 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| HILDER | Douglas | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 24/10/1914 | 31/05/1940 | 06/02/1993 | NX24654 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| HILL | Hugh William J | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 5/09/1918 | 15/07/1940 | 11/11/2001 | VX31621 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 2112 | HODGKINSON | Joseph Holland | Bom | Ordinary | Vale | 23/01/1905 | 1/07/1940 | VX32874 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| HUTCHINSON | Robert Morris | Cpl | Ordinary | 6/08/1919 | 5/06/1940 | NX28579 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||||
| INGLIS | Norman Edward A | LBom | Other | Vale | 3/01/1911 | 17/07/1940 | VX44067 | 2/3 LAA Reg | POW | ||
| 3068 | KELLY | Claude David | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 11/04/1908 | 29/07/1940 | 31/05/1984 | VX47995 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| KRUGER | Charles James | Sgt | Ordinary | 27/04/1919 | 21/06/1940 | VX23786 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||||
| 0165 | LANGDON | Henry Clive C | LSgt | Ordinary | Vale | 14/10/1907 | 1/08/1940 | 29/11/1976 | VX47571 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 2013 | LIGHT | Neil Douglas | Lieut | Ordinary | Vale | 9/03/1909 | 12/06/1940 | VX25356 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| LITTLE | Robert Alexander | Bom | Ordinary | 19/05/1919 | 18/06/1940 | VX28287 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||||
| MACINDOE | Stewart Campbell G | Lieut | Ordinary | 15/01/1918 | 7/05/1940 | VX14441 | 2/3 LAA Reg | POW | |||
| MACRAE | Angus C | Pte | Ordinary | 30/01/1919 | 19/08/1940 | QX43773 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||||
| MALLETT | James Robert R | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 3/05/1916 | 12/07/1940 | ../06/1985 | VX46575 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 0231 | MARSHALL | Walter | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 7/10/1901 | 19/07/1940 | VX44965 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| MATHEWS | Thomas John | Cpl | Ordinary | Vale | 18/07/1902 | 5/08/1940 | 3/09/1985 | VX36270 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 2214 | MATTHEWS | John Richard | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 4/05/1916 | 18/06/1940 | 3/09/1985 | VX27103 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 2391 | MAWDSLEY | Francis William | Bom | Ordinary | Vale | 29/03/1904 | 26/07/1940 | 18/08/1973 | VX46394 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 0545A | MAXFIELD | Gregory Norman | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 18/06/1905 | 18/06/1940 | VX26095 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| MAYNE | Anderson | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 1/12/1909 | 26/06/1940 | 11/04/1978 | VX33190 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 2917 | MC BEAN | Charles A | Bom | Ordinary | Vale | 31/12/1919 | 9/07/1940 | 11/07/1978 | VX28192 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 0483 | MC CASKILL | Jack | Lieut | Ordinary | Vale | 12/05/1917 | 12/07/1940 | 03/10/1982 | VX46580 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| MILLER | George | Mr | Ordinary | Vale | 12/01/1911 | 18/06/1940 | 29/11/1950 | VX28068 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 2413 | MILLER | George Arthur | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 28/03/1914 | 25/07/1940 | VX46281 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 2204 | MILLER | Leslie Arnold | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 27/01/1912 | 25/07/1940 | VX46271 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 0856 | MILLIGAN | John Stewart | Lieut | Ordinary | Vale | 22/05/1914 | 19/06/1940 | 25/07/1995 | VX22507 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 2390 | MORRIS | Ronald Woodford | Pte | Ordinary | Vale | 17/04/1907 | 23/07/1940 | VX45684 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| MORROW | Valentine | Gnr | Fallen | KIA | 20/04/1911 | 22/07/1940 | 25/09/1941 | VX37023 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 1960 | MOULTON | Noel Gray | LCpl | Ordinary | Vale | 13/08/1918 | 25/06/1940 | 31/03/2002 | VX33114 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| MURPHY | Alan James | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 14/12/1917 | 1/08/1940 | 6/12/2010 | VX48232 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 0532 | MURPHY | Thomas Arthur | Pte | Ordinary | Vale | 15/08/1919 | 12/06/1940 | ../12/2010 | VX25668 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 0858 | MUSGROVE | Valantine Thomas | Bom | Ordinary | Vale | 9/01/1919 | 18/06/1940 | 18/04/1983 | VX27920 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| NEVE | Leonard Sydney | Spr | Ordinary | 27/06/1917 | 24/06/1940 | VX34111 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||||
| 3174 | NICHOLSON | Frank Henry | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 18/04/1915 | 25/06/1940 | 30/05/1992 | VX34207 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| NICHOLSON | John Edgar | Gnr | Other | Vale | 19/01/1915 | 16/07/1940 | VX28557 | 2/3 LAA Reg | POW | ||
| NORTON | Bede Noel | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 3/12/1912 | 31/05/1940 | 22/06/1984 | NX23228 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 2689 | O'DONNELL | Francis William | Pte | Ordinary | 5/05/1917 | 11/07/1940 | VX46170 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| OWEN | David Syd | Pte | Ordinary | Vale | 17/06/1914 | 19/02/1940 | SX1750 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| PAGE | William Shimell | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 12/09/1919 | 21/06/1940 | 12/09/2013 | VX29847 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 3024 | PAYNE | Percy Leo | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 6/12/1917 | 21/06/1940 | 19/07/1990 | VX33299 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 0029A | PHILLIPS | Robert Davison | Cpl | Ordinary | 19/09/1917 | 8/07/1940 | VX44404 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| 3003 | POPE | George J | Bom | Ordinary | Vale | 17/03/1901 | 25/06/1940 | VX32933 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 0384 | PORRITT | Stanley Malcolm | Pte | Ordinary | Vale | 4/02/1920 | 19/06/1940 | 5/09/2011 | VX24330 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 2398 | PRIDEAUX | Rupert Maurice | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 4/07/1917 | 15/07/1940 | ../../1975 | VX45370 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| REED | Francis Wilbur | Capt | Ordinary | Vale | 2/08/1911 | 27/05/1940 | VX17654 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| 3144 | REID | Henry James | Cpl | Ordinary | Vale | 3/06/1917 | 29/07/1940 | ../../2000 | VX44546 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 2796 | RICHARDS | Roy Leslie | Lieut | Ordinary | Vale | 6/06/1914 | 25/07/1940 | 27/08/1975 | VX48294 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 0978A | ROBERTS | George Edgar | Sgt | Ordinary | 1/08/1916 | 22/06/1940 | VX33921 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| ROBERTSON | Hugh Ronald | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 14/02/1907 | 10/08/1940 | 23/02/1986 | VX38151 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| ROSENBERG | Clive Simpson | Lieut | Ordinary | Vale | 7/08/1908 | 18/05/1940 | VX15357 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| 3037 | RUSSELL | Frederick H | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 21/10/1915 | 18/06/1940 | 18/09/1996 | VX25210 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 0366 | RYAN | Richard Joseph | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 28/11/1912 | 19/06/1940 | 26/03/1995 | VX33274 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 3129 | SCHOLES | John William | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 29/09/1914 | 24/06/1940 | VX33168 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 0654 | SCOTT | Elton Trevor R | Lieut | Ordinary | Vale | 8/01/1917 | 8/05/1940 | ../06/1965 | VX14638 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 1050B | SCOTT | William Ernest | LSgt | Ordinary | Vale | 21/02/1907 | 18/06/1940 | VX33011 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 0997 | SIMPSON | Thomas Joseph | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 7/07/1912 | 28/06/1940 | VX34384 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 2925 | SIMSON | Charles E D | Cpl | Ordinary | 2/06/1916 | 9/07/1940 | VX28195 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| 2243 | SITLINGTON | Keith Gordon | WO2 | Ordinary | Vale | 31/07/1908 | 22/07/1940 | VX47207 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 0329 | SLATTERIE | Harold Neill | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 8/03/1901 | 22/07/1940 | VX36515 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 3027 | SLATTERY | Leo James | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 5/05/1901 | 1/08/1940 | 24/04/1993 | VX47497 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| SLEEP | Robert William J | Gnr | Ordinary | 15/05/1919 | 18/07/1940 | VX37745 | 2/3 LAA Reg | POW | |||
| 0867 | SMITH | Herbert Charles | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 31/03/1918 | 12/06/1940 | 20/04/1990 | VX24757 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| STEPHENS | Harold Lancelot | Capt | Ordinary | Vale | 25/02/1912 | 7/05/1940 | VX14417 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| 3038 | STEPHENS | Leslie William | Gnr | Ordinary | 27/01/1919 | 18/06/1940 | VX25250 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| 0597 | STOKES | Philip William C | Lt Col | Ordinary | Vale | 25/10/1906 | 19/07/1940 | ../10/1983 | VX47598 | 2/3 LAA Reg | MID, OBE ED |
| 3175 | STUART | Alfred Ronald | Mr | Ordinary | Vale | 7/05/1919 | 22/07/1940 | 9/05/1992 | VX36660 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 0328 | TAYLOR | David Frank | LCpl | Ordinary | Vale | 22/03/1919 | 22/07/1940 | 3/04/1991 | VX37932 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 2277 | TOM | William Ernest | Cpl | Ordinary | Vale | 20/02/1916 | 23/07/1940 | ../02/1982 | VX37415 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 1944 | TOY | Frederick Raymond | Cpl | Ordinary | 1/07/1916 | 11/07/1940 | VX41790 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| 2269 | WALLACE | Keith | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 4/07/1920 | 22/07/1940 | ../../2013 | VX38005 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| WALLIS | Ivan Royce | Pte | Ordinary | Vale | 8/02/1917 | 27/05/1940 | 18/05/1996 | NX17798 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 2104 | WASHBOURNE | Frank Herbert | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 18/07/1914 | 18/07/1940 | 15/09/2003 | VX37764 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| 0327 | WAUGH | Stanley Gordon | Sgt | Ordinary | Vale | 17/11/1907 | 28/06/1940 | 21/09/1989 | VX32935 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| WEBSTER | Malcolm Reginald | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 25/05/1920 | 6/06/1940 | 26/07/2010 | VX23397 | 2/3 LAA Reg | POW | |
| 0965A | WESTON | William Edward | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 9/11/1909 | 23/07/1940 | 24/01/1992 | VX38063 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| WHITELY | Arnold | Pte | Ordinary | Vale | 22/06/1900 | 21/05/1940 | VX16131 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |||
| WHITLEY | Alfred John | Lieut | Ordinary | Vale | 3/10/1907 | 31/07/1940 | 5/08/1958 | VX38486 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 2782 | WILLIAMS | Leslie Ambrose | Bom | Ordinary | Vale | 20/08/1911 | 25/07/1940 | 28/11/1996 | VX37941 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
| WILLIAMS | Ronald Leslie | Gnr | Ordinary | Vale | 5/02/1917 | 21/06/1940 | 17/01/1999 | VX40059 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| WILLIAMS | Roy Robert | WO2 | Ordinary | Vale | 11/11/1905 | 13/06/1940 | 10/05/1993 | VX26182 | 2/3 LAA Reg | ||
| 0547A | WRIGHT | Arthur R | Mr | Ordinary | Vale | 21/12/1901 | 9/07/1940 | 14/07/1982 | VX23017 | 2/3 LAA Reg | |
The Association acknowledges this file is the property of Mr. Owen Carlton, who compiled it as a tribute to the Rats Of Tobruk. The file contains the names and details of members the 2nd/3rd ALAAR who were legitimately Rats of Tobruk. Mr Carlton has authorised the 2nd/3rd ALAARA to utilise the list, and in return, our web site has a link to his web site - www.ratsoftobruktribute.com