No Lost Battalion

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By 1942malaya ·



The 2/29th Battalion AIF arrived in Singapore on the 15th of August 1941 and in 1942 went into battle against the Japanese. Now sixty eight years on members of the Battalion agree to talk about their experience telling of their enlistment, training, battle, captivity, imprisonment enslavement, survival and homecoming.<o:p></o:p>

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