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Rowley Richards Rowley Richards i(A89854 works by)
Born: Established: 8 Jun 1916 Summer Hill, Ashfield - Burwood area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 2015
Gender: Male
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1 5 y separately published work icon A Doctor's War Rowley Richards , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2005 Z1204822 2005 single work autobiography 'After the end of the Second World War, Australia's Directorate of War Graves Serivces uncovered an extraordinary document hidden in a bottle buried in a grave in Singapore. It was a summary of the secret diary of Dr. Rowley Richards, a POW and medical officer on the notorious Burma-Siam (Thailand) Railway. Richards, was just 23 when war broke out, and in a series of diaries he recorded the everyday brutality of the POW camps and also the courage, humour and mateship of his comrades.' Source: Libraries Australia.
1 1 y separately published work icon The Survival Factor Rowley Richards , Marcia McEwan , Kenthurst : Kangaroo Press , 1989 Z1406591 1989 single work autobiography
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