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    Site Resources
Some of the publications used as references
to plan and write the site were:

    From Snow to Jungle:
    A History of the 2/3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion
    by John Bellair (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1987)

    Weary: The Life of Sir Edward Weary Dunlop
    by Sue Ebury (Viking-Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1994)

    Wanderings of a Warrior
    by Alf Sheppard, privately published memoirs, 1995

    The Lost Legion
    by Rod Allanson, privately published memoirs, 1990

  • Information and taped material - much of it yet to be published - was also obtained from discussions and correspondence with veterans from the 2/3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion, who generously responded to requests for information.

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      Links to Related Sites

  • 2/4th Australian Machine Gun Battalion

    http://space.net.au/~hintock
    Contains a comprehensive background on the 2/4th MG Bn (many of whom also became POWs), a list of resources, email links to site developers, and other useful information.

  • Department of Veteran Affairs

    http://www.dva.gov.au/main2.htm
    Includes links to related government departments; of special interest to veterans.

  • Australian War Memorial

    http://www.awm.gov.au/
    Comprehensive website containing information valuable links to many areas of the Memorial including its archives, the bookshop, general enquiry link, webmaster link, etc. Of interest to anyone with an interest in the impact of war on Australia.

  • Australians in Borneo during World War 2

    http://www.borneo.com.au/auswar.htm
    Includes information about POWs on Borneo during the War - including the infamous Sandakan-Ranau death march from which six POWs survived out of 2,400 - and links to related sites.

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