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Catalogue  > Second World War  > Australian Prisoners of War  > 8th Division POWs  > Ghosts in Khaki




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The Western Australian Battalion, formed in 1940, was in the thick of the fighting on Singapore. Its members suffered the agony of defeat at the fall of the island and shared the horrors of three and half years as Prisoners of War under the Japanese. The story of that struggle, as told through the eyes of one of its units - the 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion - provides the background for the Battalion history.

THE AUTHOR

Les Cody was born in 1918 at Boulder and grew up on the Eastern Goldfields, attending the Christian Brothers College Kalgoorlie before moving to Perth. He commenced his army training in 1940 and in December of that year transferred to the 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion AIF. He was wounded in action on Singapore and in May 1942, as a POW, was in the first party to leave Singapore for Burma to commence work on the infamous Burma-Thailand Railway. In September 1945 he was a member of a combined POW/Graves Commission Survey Unit that located and identified 12,000 Allied POW graves scattered along the 415 kilometres of the Railway.

With B&W Photos including - (First N.C.O School Northam 1941 - No. 1 Signals Platoon - No. 2 (Anti Aircraft, HQ Coy) - No. 6 Platoon A Coy - No. 4 Platoon A Coy - No. 5 Platoon A Coy - No. 7 Platoon B Coy - No. 8 Platoon B Coy - No. 9 Platoon B Coy - C Company HQ - No. 10 Platoon C Coy - No. 11 Platoon C Coy - No 12 Platoon C Coy - No 13 Platoon C Coy - No 14 Platoon D Coy - No. 15 Platoon D Coy.

Contains Nominal Roll of the 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion - Decorations & Awards.

- CLICK HERE for Colour Patch ALSO a 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion Unit History
 
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SKU:0859052354
Quantity:- out of stock -
Military Campaign: World War 2 (Singapore)
Author/s: Les Cody
History Of: 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, 8th Division AIF
Printing Year: 1997
Printing &/or Publishing Information: Hesperian Press
ISBN: 0859052354
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Condition: New
Weight:1.05 kg
Price:$ 165.00
 

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