John Murray Coleville CHEYNE

Roll of Service 1939-1945

John Murray ColevilleCHEYNE

Acting Sergeant: 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, WX9388

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Changi Prison Camp, Singapore. c. 1945.

'Changi Prison Camp, Singapore. c. 1945. Nurses and sergeants from the old home town meet up in Changi prisoner of war (POW) camp. Pictured: WX9388 Sergeant (Sgt) John Murray Cheyne of Cottesloe, WA; WFX33963 Sister Mary Elizabeth Anstis of Cottesloe, WA, and VFX48843 Sister Emmie Spiller of Melbourne, Vic, listen to the explanation of the Japanese sign given by VX61399 Sgt Bruce Fell of Melbourne, Vic.'

[Picture: Courtesy of Autralian War Memorial - Copyright expired - public domain.]

Picture: Header, Original Caption: Down the ramp of a Coast Guard Landing barge Yankee soldiers storm toward the beach-sweeping fire of Nazi defenders in the D-Day Invasion of the French Coast. Troops ahead may be seen lying flat under the deadly machine gun resistance of the Germans. Soon the Nazis were driven back under the overwhelming Invasion forces thrown in from Coast Guard and Navy amphibious craft.
[Courtesy of National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures (RDSS)(513173)] (Edited: Artistic Blur by Graeme Watson, 2016)