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2/1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force
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Want to know more about 2/1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force ? There are:2 items tagged 2/1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force available in our Library
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George Ernest Matthews 2/1st Battalion My father was captured in Crete & was a prisoner of war at Stalag 3. He never spoke about it much but also never ever wanted to travel overseas once he arrived back in Australia. Dad has now passed away & I am only just learning the terrible suffering he endured, to the last minute of freedom, which was spent walking with the other prisoners on their long march of 200 miles a day, only to be rescued by the Red Army. My Dad, like all the other brave & humble men, are true heroes, whose stories & names must live on forever more so that their suffering was not in vain.
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Pte. William Thomas "Spider" Gibbons 2/1 Batallion William Thomas Gibbons, my Uncle, was captured at Retimo in Crete on or about the 30th May 1941. He was interred at Moosburg Stalag VIIA and remained there as POW 92173 until 14th April 1943 when he was moved to Stalag VIIIB in Poland near the small town of Lamsdorf. He remained at Lamsdorf after it was split up and renamed to Stalag 344 in December 1943, through until April 1945. He was also one of those who survived the Great March when many POWs were marched westward from Polish camps to flee the advancing Soviet armies.
Uncle Bill was repatriated to Australia in June 1945 and returned to his home town of Gulgong NSW where he remained for the rest of his life.
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Leslie Israel 2/1st Battalion Leslie Israel sent a postcard to my mother Miss Norma Moon from Stalag 13C on 15th of August 1943.
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