Frazer Gill - papers mainly relating to the Borneo Campaign and surrender of the Second Japanese Army at Morotai, 1944-45

MLMSS 7111

fonds

1944-1945

Textual Records, Photographs

414298

1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (printed)
Photographs

During World War 2 Frazer Gill served as an artillery signaller in the 2/5 Field regiment of the 7th Division. He saw action in Papua New Guinea and Borneo, including the Battle of Balikpapan. After the war he graduated from the University of Sydney with a law degree and practised as a solicitor until a few years before his death.

7 September 1944; 'Table Tops', No. 475, a newsletter issued by Australian Military Forces abroad.
8 September 1945; Memorandum from HQ 1 Aust Corps to Branches and Units concerning the surrender
9 September 1945; Address delivered by Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander of the Australian Forces; copy of the Instrument of Surrender; printed sheet containing seven photographs of the surrender ceremony.
undated; Map of Indonesia.
undated; Money: eleven notes issued by the Japanese Government in occupied Indonesia.
1945; Five photographs and five illustrated cards of the Borneo Campaign and Battle of Balpapan.
1943; One photograph of Cathedral Mount Field Station.
June 1945 ; Aerial photographic map of Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. Located at M SER 4 000/1 MLMSS 7111