Brigidine College Library

Pathfinder

Junior Drama 1

“I didn’t know that”

GENERAL

Prime Minister Robert G Menzies Wartime broadcast
http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/prime_ministers/menzies.htm

On 3 September 1939, Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies
announced that Australia was at war with Germany.
http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/wardeclared/index.html

Multimedia resources
http://www.menziesvirtualmuseum.org.au/about/multimedia.html

Australian War Memorial
http://www.awm.gov.au

Picture Australia - Women and War Picture Trail
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/apps/pictureaustralia?action
=PASearch&mode=trail&attribute1=collection&term1=
"Women+and+war+trail"

Australian Women Army Services. Photos
http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/lastbattles/awasG.html


Australian women at war. Reading list
http://www.awm.gov.au/research/bibliographies/b18women.htm

WAAF. An Aussie wartime success story
http://www.defence.gov.au/news/raafnews/editions/4404/story10.htm

Australia’s War 1939 – 1945
http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/index.html

The Warrior’s Timeline. Our Queensland

Timeline of events during the war years
http://www.thecouriermail.com.au/extras/oq/book5timeline5.html

Air Raids
http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/underattack/airraid.html

The Australian Home Front

Includes the words of the song, Our Air Raid Shelter

http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/allin

Air Raid precautions
http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/allin/airraid.html

About RAAF base Amberley
http://www.defence.gov.au/Raaf/organisation/info_on/bases/amberley/index.htm

SUMATRA

Behind the Wire : Found

24 Australian army nurses, women who had just spent three and a half years in Japanese captivity on the island of Sumatra

http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/behindwire/found.html

Nurses in Sumatra

Nurse survivors of the Vyne Brooke
http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/nurse_survivors/jeffrey.htm

Fall of Singapore. The Fate of the Nursing Staff
http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/japadvance/leave.html


Betty Jeffrey

http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004118b.htm

Betty Jeffrey
http://www.angellpro.com.au/Jeffrey.htm

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

BURMA

Railway of Death
Images of the construction of the Burma–Thailand Railway 1942–1943
http://www.anzacday.org.au/history/ww2/anecdotes/deathrailway.html

The Burma Thai Railway
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~a23mgb/f_hist/tbr_hist.htm

The Thai Burma Railway
http://www.abc.net.au/changi/history/burma.htm

NEW GUINEA

Last Battles - Scroll down to The Nightingales of New Guinea
http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/lastbattles/index.html

Battle for Australia
Kakoda Trail. New Guinea
http://www.battleforaustralia.org.au/kokoda1.html

Kokoda Trail
http://www.kokodatrail.com.au/history.html

Kakoda Trail
http://www.convictcreations.com/history/kakoda.htm

Fall of Rabaul
They suffered very basic living conditions, with little food and negligible medical treatment.
http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/japadvance/yokohama.html

THE CENTAUR

The Sinking of the Centaur

http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat/2003/centaur/index.htm

Centaur hospital ship

http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/centaur

Centaur
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-nurses/centaur.htm

OTHER INFORMATION

Shoe Horn Sonata
http://www.currency.com.au/preview/shoe.htm

Australian Army Nurses
http://www.users.bigpond.com/battleforaustralia/Theyalsoserved/AustArmNurses.html

Women and War
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/saatwar/women.htm

Women in Queensland lend their voices
http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http%3A//www.abc.net.au/westqld/stories/s1427323.htm

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES

Experiences of school children during World War II
trenches were dug in the school yards in a zig zag pattern and were used in air raid drills

http://www.tallpoppies.net.au/florey/researcher/world/25re.html

Remember when. War

I was 5 years old and living with my parents in Mackay, Queensland when World War II broke out.
http://www.u3answ.org.au/remember/clement.html