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Pte. Keith Hayes WX12317 - 2/2 Independent Company

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Pte. Val 'Powerful' Richards TX6412 - 2/40 Infantry Battalion

This is one of the earlier unedited research interviews conducted by Grant McLachlan for his book Sparrow: A Chronicle of Defiance, which...

Pte. Ron Cassidy TX3949 - 2/40 Infantry Battalion

This is one of the earlier unedited research interviews conducted by Grant McLachlan for his book Sparrow: A Chronicle of Defiance, which...

SURVIVORS: Pte. Claude Longey TX4802 and Pte. Arthur Richardson TX3872 - 2/40 Infantry Battalion

Location: Philippines. Date: September 15, 1944. If ever there was a story of survival to encapsulate the true grit of Sparrow Force,...

The Chilcott family - two generations and two wars

(From left to right) Dvr. Chilcott, Thomas T23066 (Wilfred's father who served in WW1 at Gallipoli and served in the 10 Auxiliary Horse...

Reinforcements, 40th Battalion, 2nd A.I.F., Brighton, 16 December 1941

(click on photograph to view PDF format version of this photograph with captions.) BACK: ?, F.Jarvis TX8314, ?, ?, E.Poke TX5917,...

L/Cpl. Clyde McKay TX4763 & Dvr. Lloyd Harding TX3675 - 2/40 Infantry Battalion AIF

This is the first unedited research interview conducted by Grant McLachlan for his book Sparrow: A Chronicle of Defiance, which is about...

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Sjt. Hepburn, James Robert 1427448

Pte. Val 'Powerful' Richards TX6412 - 2/40 Infantry Battalion

Pte. Ron Cassidy TX3949 - 2/40 Infantry Battalion

SURVIVORS: Pte. Claude Longey TX4802 and Pte. Arthur Richardson TX3872 - 2/40 Infantry Battalion

The Chilcott family - two generations and two wars

Reinforcements, 40th Battalion, 2nd A.I.F., Brighton, 16 December 1941

L/Cpl. Clyde McKay TX4763 & Dvr. Lloyd Harding TX3675 - 2/40 Infantry Battalion AIF

Pte. Bert Price TX2781 - 2/40 Infantry Battalion & 2/2 Independent Company AIF

Cpl. William E. Garlick TX2759 - 4 Platoon (Carriers, HQ Co.) 2/40 Infantry Battalion

Maj. Adanto D'Amore & Louis Zamperini

Liberated Sparrow Force soldiers in Singapore, Sept 1945

Liberated Sparrow Force POWs in Sumatra, September 1945

Fl/Lt. Jack Lyle MacAlister RAAF MBE DFC

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