Please name an Australian serviceman/officer/nurse/ prisoner of war that fought at...?

Question

One of these locations-

EUROPE-Crete,Greece,Italy(RAN), Battle og Britain(RAN), Bombing raids over Germany - 'Dambusters'(RAAF)

MEDITERANEAN / NORTH AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST-Tobruk, El Alamein, Syria, Suez Canal, Libya, Egypt

THE PACFIC / SOUTH EAST ASIA- The Kokoda Trail,The fall of Singapore, Borneo, Milne Bay, Coral Sea/Midway, Huon Peninsula, Bouganville, Burma-Thailand railway

Thankyou so much for helping me out ~
Have a nice day.

Sgt Big Red - I know this seems like a lame answer but... i DID do research, yet i still couldnt find anyone..i'm just asking for some help.

Answer 1

I cannot name a serviceman for Europe, but Kenneth Slessor and Osmar White were accredited War Correspondents, wearing military uniforms and patches, who covered Britain and Europe.

Again, not a fighting serviceman, but in Africa:
Osmar White, George Silk and Damian Parer. General Blamey was the commander in North Afica.

Pacific Theatre -- Again newsmen. Wilfred Burchett and Dennis Warner and Damian Parer (when he changed to an American Film Newsreel company).

South West Pacific -- again newsmen. Damian Parer, Osmar White, George Silk, Chestor Wilmot (all on the Kokoda, Salamaua, Milne Bay etc and Parer covered the "Battle of the Bismark Sea" from the cockpit of a Beaufighter bomber, Lorraine Palmer (Stumm) who was the only female war correspondent in Papua New Guinea, Dennis Adams, Sir William Dargie and Ivor Hele (the three were War Artists).
Flt. Lt. (Touchy) Tom Uren was one of the pilots of 30th Squadron flying Beaufighters in in PNG. He later became a ALP Federal minister in the Whitlam Government.
The famous film of one soldier helping another on the Kokoda, shot by Parer, is of Private W.O. Johnson of the 58/59th Battalion with his eye covered in a bandage being led by Sgt. G.R. Ayre.

A POW on the Thai-Burma Railway was the famous doctor, Lt. Col, (Sir) EE. (Weary) Dunlop.. You could google "Australian POW Doctors" and you will get a number of names.

I have a number of names of war correspondents accredited to Australia and the SW Pacific, but I am unsure if they served overseas.

Answer 2

Betty Jeffery is an Australian Registered Nurse who joined the Australian Army in 1940. In 1942 she became a japanese POW and spent 3 1/2 years in a Japanese POW camp. Betty Jeffrey wrote a book called White Coolies in 1954 which details her experiences whilst serving as a nurse in the Army and also includes her diary from her time in the POW camp. It was later used as a basis for the film Paradise Road. Both the book and film are awesome and full of history.

Answer 3

Major General Arthur Samuel 'Tubby' Allen, CB, CBE, DSO, VD
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/8056.asp


http://www.awm.gov.au/database/index.asp

http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/doc/overview.asp

Answer 4

http://www.angellpro.com.au/Bullwinkel.htm

Answer 5

didn't you ever hear of the word "research"