Anzac Day 1942: As Australia stopped to remember the sacrifices of war, over 22,000 Australian service personnel were prisoners of the Japanese, having been recently captured in Malaya, Singapore, Timor and New Guinea. Their families back home waited anxiously for news, which often never came. In this webinar, Patrick Ferry from the National Archives of Australia draws on original defence service records and treasured family archives to tell the personal stories of several POWs from one small rural Victorian community.

To honour Anzac Day the National Archives of Australia will present this fascinating seminar in partnership with the RHSV and the Genealogical Society of Victoria.

Image caption: Extract from original Japanese list of Australian POWs and Internees who perished when the Montevideo Maru was sunk in 1942. NAA 14143, 1 (Item ID: 31720999).