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Catalogue  > Second World War  > Australian Prisoners of War  > 8th Division POWs  > No Lost Battalion: 2/29th Battalion AIF. Lack, John.




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The 2/29th Battalion AIF, over 1000 strong, arrived in Singapore on 15 August 1941. On 17 January 1942 they went into action in Johore, Malaya, and their subsequent resistance to the Imperial Japanese Army south of Maur River has been compared with that of the Spartans at Thermopylae. '

After inflicting massive Japanese casualties, the Battalion, surrounded and overwhelmed, made a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to join their comrades in the 2/19th battalion, and then struggled south through enemy lines - a series of actions that were described as a 'jungle epic'. The 2/29th lost more than 250 killed in action, including their badly wounded, whom the Japanese murdered at Parit Sulong. Joined by 500 recently arrived and barely trained reinforcements, the 2/29th suffered further casualties in the battle for Singapore Island.    

But the survivors privations did not finish with the British surrender on 15 February 1942. Another 350 men - one third of those who had survived battles of Muar and Singapore - would die in captivity as a result of starvation, enforced labour and disease, on the Burma-Thailand Railway, and in Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Japan. Many others drowned at sea when their transports were torpedoed. Overall, more than four in every 10 of some 1600 men who served with the 2/29th never came home.

After the fall of Singapore the Australian press wrote of the 8th Division AIF as 'the lost battalion', and Military authorities considered reassigning the battalion numbers to newly raised units. Wiser counsel prevented such an act of betrayal. The 2/29th, rejecting emphatically the 'lost battalion' label, remained justifiably proud of their battle honours, and also of the Battalions demeanor under applaing circumstances of captivity.


Contents:

Introduction - A son reflects on family and Battalion History: Andrew Coffey - We are the boys from Melbourne - For we've heard the call - Now we arrived in Singapore - We'll be the modern Anzacs (Escape to Sumatra: Slim Nelson, Don McRae writes home - Singapore Island - Selerang barracks - Changi and Singapore island working parties, I am very sorry for you: Jack Lack - Lives on the Line: B Force, With 'A' Force: Strachan White, With 'F' Force: John Roxbourgh, Dr Mills was our Weary Dunlop, With 'G' Force: Jim Lawson, With 'J' Force:George Tite, Slim Nelson in Atjeh, Sumatra, Our little jungle home: Victor Brand, The Rokuyo Maru: Don McArdle's Story, Bluey Ryan with the Chinese guerrillas - Back to our home sweet home - Afterword by Doug Ogden - After the War - Bibliography  - Appendix 1: Battalion Honour Roll - Appendix 2: Battalion Nominal Roll - Maps: Malaya, Singapore Island, Changi, The Burma-Thailand Railway
 
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SKU:9780957975286
Quantity:1 item(s) available
Author/s: John Lack
Book Size(cm): 25 x 18
Condition: NEW
Format: Hardcover with dj
Pages: 303
Printing &/or Publishing Information: Slouch Hat
Printing Year: 2005 - 1st edition
Military Campaign: World War II (Singapore, Malaya, Maur River, Parit Sulong, Singapore Island, POWs Burma-Thailand Railway, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Japan)
History Of: 2/29th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
ISBN: 9780957975286
Infantry Battalion: 2/29
Weight:1.13 kg
Price:$ 58.95
 
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