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Written Sources Consulted by the Tribunal
Archival Sources
Australian War Memorial
AWM54 781/ 6/6 [Prisoner of War Statements - Europe:] File containing material (Statistics citations, escapes, etc) prepared by L Parker at Central Army Records Office for use of Official War Historian, in the preparation of section dealing with Australian Prisoners of War (Army) taken in the Middle East, Greece and Crete and held in Camps in Germany and Italy
AWM119 122 Posthumous MIDs [Mention-in-Despatches] for PsW [Prisoners of War] killed whilst attempting to escape [Gnr A Reeve; WOII M W Quittenton; Gnr J A T Wilson; L/Bdr A H Jones; L/Sgt A W Glover; Sgt C E Danaher; L/Sgt T S Cumming; L/Bdr A A Emmett; Gnr K J Dickinson; Pte A J Bell; Capt A Mull; Pte R S Goulden; Pte G H Whitfield; Pte D S McKenzie; Sig H F Harvey; Pte R E Breavington; Pte V L Gale; Pte J Bell; also refers to possible awards to WOII L G Davies; Sgt J K Bell; Sgt C B Jones; L/Bdr K D McLachlan]
AWM119 185 Honours and Awards Ex Prisoners-of-War Europe - BEM [British Empire Medal], MM [Military Medal] and MID [Mentioned in Despatches Pte H P Lennard]
AWM54 781/6/7 Prisoner of War Statements - Interrogation reports of escaped Prisoners of War by Allied Interrogation Service, CMF 1944
National Archives of Australia
B883 VX73838 Bell Alexander John
B883 VX34637 Bell, Joseph Kenneth
B883 VX50944 Bell, Joseph
B883 VX63100 Breavington, Rodney Edward
B883 VX52128 Cleary, Albert Neale
B883 NX38584 Crease, Wally
B883 VX31670 Cumming, Thomas Stephen
B883 VX31946 Danaher, Clifford Edmond
B883 NX66447 Davies, Leslie George
B883 VX57167 Dickinson, Keith Johnson
B883 VX38444 Emmett, Aubrey Alfred
B883 VX62289 Gale, Victor Lawrence
B883 VX57043 Glover, Alan William
B883 NX10420 Goulden, Robert Stuart
B883 NX49419 Harvey, Howard Fredrick
B883 NX37426 Hatfield, Eric Edward
B883 VX46835 Jones, Arthur Henry
B883 NX45920 Jones, Carlyle Benjamin
B883 QX15656 Mackay, Theodore Rutland Brydon
B883 NX54192 McLachlan, Kenneth Donald
B883 NX12243 Mull, Alan
B883 VX45344 Quittenton, Matthew Lawrence
B883 VX27292 Reeve, Arthur
B883 NX2567 Schuberth, William Forbes
B883 NX69005 Whitfield, George Herman
B883 VX47903 Wilson, James Alexander Thomas
B3856 144/14/65 Correspondence concerning Cpl R E Breavington VX63100 and Pte V L Gale VX62289
A816 66/301/60 Posthumous awards for prisoners of war killed while attempting to escape
A5799 26/1944 Posthumous awards for prisoners of war killed while trying to escape
A2031 53/1944 Posthumous awards for prisoners of war killed while trying to escape : Agendum Number - 26/1944 : Date of meeting - 16 February 1944
Published books
Clutton-Brock, O. Footprints on the sands of time, RAF Bomber Command Prisoners-of-war in Germany 1939-1945, Grub Street, London, 2003
Dennis, P. et al The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2008
Harrison, C. Ambon, Island of Mist, self published, Geelong, 1988
Nelson, H. Prisoners of War: Australians under Nippon, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, 1985
Smith, N. Lt Col Tid Apa, the history of the 4th anti-tank regiment, Military History Research & Publications, Gardenvale, 1992
Wigmore, L. The Japanese thrust, Australia in the war of 1939-45, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1968
Other published sources
Supplement to the London Gazette 9 May 1944
Supplement to the London Gazette 8 June 1944
Supplement to the London Gazette 9 October 1945.
Supplement to the London Gazette 18 October 1945
Supplement to the London Gazette 31 January 1946
Supplement to the London Gazette 13 September1946
A Matter of Honour, the Report of the Review of Australian Honours and Awards, 1995
Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Defence Awards, 1993/4
The Canberra Times, article on Japanese war crime trials, 6 June 1950
The Canberra Times, article on Japanese war crime trials, 16 June 1950
The Canberra Times, article on Japanese war crime trials, 20 June 1950
Internet sources
An account of the execution of the Tavoy eight by Alan Brown:-
http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/stories_kwai_bridge.htm
Australian War Memorial account of Australian prisoners of war in WWII:-
http://www.awm.gov.au/exhibitions/stolenyears/index.asp
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