Cowra Trip 2016
Dad, Elsie, Nan and Pop and I went to Cowra for a weekend!
Stayed At- Cowra Van Park
Clubs- Cowra RSL, Cowra Bowling Club
Museum- Cowra Fun / War Museum
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Cowra Fun Musem model railway.
The massive model railway in the Cowra Fun Museum, New South Wales, Australia. Sadly, several parts of it were out of commission and the whole thing was in minor disrepair all around, but it was still interesting to see. If you ever visit Cowra, be sure to stop at the museum, it has huge amounts of things to see from tractors and cars to war relics and train stuff.
Visit to Cowra POW Camp and War Cemetery
On a recent holiday road trip I fulfilled a long held desire to visit this historic area. I hope you enjoy this look at a piece of Austalian wartime history.
By August 1944 there were 2,223 Japanese prisoners of war in Australia, including 544 merchant seamen. Of these 1,104 were housed in Camp B of No. 12 Prisoner of War Compound near Cowra, in the central west of New South Wales. They were guarded by the 22nd Garrison Battalion.
On Friday 4 August, in response to information that the Japanese were discussing a mass outbreak, notice was given that all Japanese prisoners below the rank of Lance Corporal would be transferred to the Hay Prisoner of War Camp. About 2 am on Saturday 5 August 1944 a prisoner ran shouting to the camp gates. Soon afterwards an unauthorised bugle was heard and prisoners, armed with knives and improvised clubs, rushed from their huts and began breaking through the wire fences. Sentries opened fire but several hundred prisoners escaped into open country, while others who remained set fire to the camp buildings.
On the night of the breakout three Australian soldiers were killed and another three were wounded. Privates B.G. Hardy and R. Jones, who were overwhelmed while manning a machine gun post, were posthumously awarded the George Cross. In the following nine days 334 prisoners were retaken. In all, 234 Japanese were killed and 108 wounded.
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Lee/Grant Tank Relic at Cowra, NSW
Video of a Lee/Grant wreck near Cowra, NSW
Disused rail line in Cowra.
A decrepit but still extant single-track line running past Cowra and over a highway in a rather peculiar way - if I were to follow the line further, I would eventually end up to the workshop/train depot which is still in use by railway enthusiastics, and to the closed train station. Also, while driving around, we noted that the track is blocked after the station so you couldn't drive a train much past it even if you wanted.
The Incredible Japanese Prison Break
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[The Incredible Japanese Prison Break]
Aomori, Japan. 1936. Prisoner Yoshie Shiratori had had enough.
He was forced to confess to a murder he did not commit, falsely imprisoned in Aomori Prison, beaten and tortured every night by prison guards, and, now worse, prosecutors were seeking the death penalty. In his mind, it was time to go; but Aomori Prison wasn’t the easiest to escape.
Regardless, Yoshie Shiratori had nothing to lose, and so at 5:30 am he made his move. He knew there would be a 15 minute gap in the patrol time as he had studied the guards’ routine for months; and when the coast was clear, he pulled out a metal wire (which he had smuggled in from the bathhouse) and started to pick the lock. (This was originally the metal support ring that was wrapped around the bathing buckets inmates used to wash themselves).
His hands were stiff from the wintry cold, but after a few minutes of picking, he had success, and his cell door swung open. But he wasn’t out of the woods yet, because there were more locked doors ahead. He knew he only had a few minutes left before the guards would return, and so he wasted no time attempting to pick his way through the remaining security doors.
Now fortunately for him, he was able to make it out of the facility, but the bad news was that he was only halfway to freedom. You see, he was still well within the search perimeter, which meant at any moment the alarm could go off and he’d still be caught.
At 5:45am the guards returned, peering into his cell; and this is what they saw - Shiratori sound asleep in his futon bed. ...
Film Collection Online: The Australian Prisoner of War experience
This showreel shares some of the film and sound collection material that engages with the Australian experience of being Prisoners of War under the Japanese during the Second World War. Using captured Japanese propaganda footage, official Department of Information material and personal reflections on the experience, this showreel shares a variety of perspectives. It was originally screened before the Bridge on the River Kwai as part of the Australia War Memorial’s Summer Film Screenings.
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Pt 2 of 5 US Sub Rescue of Australian and British POW's The Crossing
This video, The Crossing, explains the details involving the Sept 15, 1944 rescue of over 150 Australian and British POW's in the South China Sea, by US Submarines after the sinking of a couple of Japanese POW HellShips.
Unfortunately, these ships had not been properly marked with any Red Cross flags, and had been sunk by the American Submarines 3 days before. The American Submarine Sailors were totally unaware of the precious cargo that they had sunk 3 days previous.
This Video has two of the rescued POW's reuniting with some of the Sub Sailors that pulled them from the ocean that day.
The dramatic video from the rescue was shot by the Communication Officer of the USS Sealion II, Lt (jg) (ss) Joe (Shorty) Bates.
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Unfortunately, out of a total of 2,200 men on the two un-marked tansports that were sunk, 1,400 Perished.
Most of the survivors were unfortunately picked up by the Japanese and remained prisoners/slaves on the Mainland untill being rescued by the American Occupation Forces at Karasaki POW camp, in Sept 1945.
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Floods In Australia (1952)
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Australian newsreel titles read: 'Devastating Floods in Two States'.
New South Wales and Victoria, Australia.
In Wagga and surrounding district we see aerial views of swollen river, flooded town of Wagga. Army Dukw in flood water. General views of flood scenes. Homeless refugees queuing for and getting food at communal food centre. L/S of people being rescued from roof of building.
Intertitle reads: 'Barwon on Rampage at Geelong'.
In Geelong, Victoria, we see general views of flooded area. L/S of Anson aircraft on flooded aerodrome. L/S of horse being rescued. Shots of refugees being brought back to land by Dukw. Aerial views of flooded area with title 'Cinesound Review The End'.
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Canberra Multicultural Festival 1983
Canberra’s much-loved National Multicultural Festival is on again this weekend, and the weather forecast is looking perfect!
We found some footage in our collection of one of the first multicultural festivals held in Canberra, in 1983. Enjoy!
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Video: Episode 196 of SCOOP (Significant Community Observations of People), Canberra Multicultural Festival 1983. NAA: C5206, 1054042
6042 GARRATT 4 8 4+4 8 4 Beyer peacock & co ltd built 1956 largest hemisphere done by drone pt2 done
6042 GARRATT 4 8 4+4 8 4 Beyer peacock & co ltd built 1956 largest in the southern hemisphere done by drone that's at forbes and never made it to Dorrigo
the steam train still lie dead at Lachlan vintage village and has been stripped for scrap
6042 has a special place in the history of steam locomotives as the last in revenue service with the New South Wales Government Railways, being withdrawn from heavy freight duties in the Newcastle region on 4 March 1973. It remained available for enthusiast tours until being condemned on 6 December 1974.
While numbered 6042, it is understood that this locomotive was earlier 6010 (Beyer Peacock 7482 of 1953, listed as scrapped in July 1970) as the two locomotives apparently swapped identities during overhaul at Cardiff Workshops late in the steam era; a photograph exists showing the two Garratts both numbered 6042 alongside each other. It was one of the 31 “DC++” Garratts fitted with Dual Control (DC) to allow the locomotive to be driven easily in the “reverse” direction, and increased cylinder diameter for greater tractive effort (++).
6042 was listed for a period with sister 6040 among the collection of the NSWRTM at the original Enfield site, however I gather a second Beyer-Garratt could not be accommodated at the smaller Thirlmere site. Fortunately 6042 escaped scrapping during the NSW Public Transport Commission’s hasty clean-out of the old Enfield depot, sisters 6002, 6008, 6009 and 6037 were not so lucky. 6042 was purchased for the Lachlan Vintage Village at Forbes in 1974 and shedded at Parkes depot until 1978. It then moved to Cowra depot and ran some local railtours before finally being transferred to the Lachlan Vintage Village at Forbes in 1979. I clearly recall an ABC television news / interest item showing 6042 on its delivery run to the Lachlan Vintage Village; this site is several kilometres from the nearest railhead and so delivery was achieved by steaming the locomotive along town streets with portable rail panels being laid in front of the locomotive, then progressively removed from the rear as the locomotive inched forward at the rate of one or two track panels at a time. Alas 6042 has never again turned a wheel following its delivery to the Lachlan Vintage Village.
The Lachlan Vintage Village was an interesting local history museum featuring relocated historical buildings, a recreated Aboriginal camp and other displays relevant to the region. From a railway perspective it included a 2’ gauge line using ex-sugar industry locomotives and a standard gauge railway which ringed the site. Unfortunately the Lachlan Vintage Village did not succeed as an ongoing concern and the railway assets were progressively sold off. Standard Goods loco 5367 was sold to the Lachlan Valley Railway at an earlier stage, the ex-Sugar industry locomotives passed into private hands and the remaining standard-gauge steam locos 1919 (on gate duty), 3112 and 6042 went to auction in November 1986. 6042 was purchased for addition to the Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum collection at a cost of $50,000 however it has since remained at Forbes awaiting funds to transport it to Dorrigo. Here 6042 occasionally receives a coat of black oil to protect against deterioration, and the drier climate at Forbes is certainly better than the rainforest climate at Dorrigo.
At the time of my visit to Forbes in May 1996 the Lachlan Vintage Village was still open to the public on special occasions and I enjoyed inspecting the remaining historical exhibits; several photos on this page date from that visit. However I understand the site has now reverted to private property and hence public access to 6042 is restricted.
In the humble opinion of the webmaster, an ideal arrangement for 6042’s future would be for the locomotive to be placed within Broadmeadow roundhouse in Newcastle, which is proposed as an outpost museum of Trainworks / NSWRTM. Perhaps an arrangement could be reached with the Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum whereby funds for 6042’s transport were provided in return for the right to display the locomotive at Broadmeadow?
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