Tony Vine continues the story of Able Seaman Hilton (Harry) George Weigand, RAN When the Burma railway was completed, Harry Weigand and most of the men were moved to Tamarkan ...
POW transport
Occasional Paper 144: HMAS Nizam – Typhoon 1945
First published in the December 1994 edition of the Naval Historical Review On 12 September, 1945, HMAS Nizam, a fleet destroyer of the 7th Destroyer Flotilla, sailed from Tokyo Bay, ...
HMAS Hawkesbury and Singapore POWs return
With the unveiling by CDF General Cosgrove at Ballarat on 6 February 2004 of the memorial dedicated to 35,000 Australians who became prisoners-of-war in all conflicts, journalist and Navy veteran ...