Cowra Prisoner-of-war Camp

Cowra Prisoner-of-war Camp was Australia's largest prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War. This topic explores the lives of prisoners and guards, the famous 1944 breakout, and the camp's enduring place in Australian and Japanese history.

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Japanese Cowra Trials - box 1 part 1

Japanese Cowra Trials [military Court trial of PWJA 145648, Yoshida, Hiroshi, 12 Prisoner of War Camp, Cowra] [12 pages; box 1]

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https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=312030&isAv=N

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Japanese Cowra Trials - box 1 part 7

Japanese Cowra Trials [inquisition before the Coroner, held at the Court House and the Prisoner of War Camp at Cowra 11-15 December 1944, and statements dated 31 October 1944] [1.0cm; box 1]

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NAA: SP196/1, 1 PART 7

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Japanese Cowra Trials - box 1 part 4

Japanese Cowra Trials [enquiry into the death at Cowra Prisoner of War Camp, of Harry Doncaster, Charles Henry Shepherd, Benjamin Gower Hardy and Ralph Jones, and a number of Japanese prisoners of war; charges against PWJA 145535 Sgt/Maj Kanazawa, Akira]

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NAA: SP196/1, 1 PART 4

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An Attractive Naivety: Australia as a new nation in a complex world (Revised Edition)

An Attractive Naivety is an epic work of Australian historical fiction spanning the first half of the twentieth century. Through the lives of ordinary men and women, it traces the nation’s journey from Federation and plague to Depression, war, and uneasy peace. Interweaving fictional characters with real events, the novel explores the humour, hardship, courage and contradictions that shaped modern Australia.

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Japanese Cowra Trials - box 1 part 2

Japanese Cowra Trials [military Court trial of PWJA 145648, Yoshida, Hiroshi and PWJA 145535, Kanazawa, Akiro / Akira, 12 Prisoner of War Camp, Cowra] [2.0cm; box 1]

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NAA: SP196/1, 1 PART 2

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Sources for Japanese breakout from Cowra Prisoner of War Camp

At 1.50 am on 5 August 1944, almost a thousand Japanese prisoners-of-war interned at No. 12 Prisoner of War Camp, Cowra, NSW, staged a mass breakout. 22 Garrison Battalion was assign as the camp guard. Armed with improvised weapons including baseball bats and sharpened mess knives the Japanese stormed the prison barb-wire fences.

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Japanese Cowra Trials - box 1 part 8

Japanese Cowra Trials [outbreak of Japanese prisoners from Cowra Prisoner of War Camp, 5 August 1944 and arrangements for the inquiry

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NAA: SP196/1, 1 PART 8

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Japanese Cowra Trials - box 1 part 3

Japanese Cowra Trials [inquisition held by the Coroner at the Court House and the Prisoner of War Camp at Cowra, 11-15 December 1944; 3 copies] [0.5cm each copy; box 1]

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NAA: SP196/1, 1 PART 3

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