SSR - Photo Gallery - Images pertaining to Captain Osten

Items and images submitted in April, 2005 by Bernie Morris

This is an opportunity to see and read correspondence between a former prisoner of war and a prisoner of war. In addition, examples of a military service record and a document pertaining to the awarding of the military cross.

Poetry by Murray Osten

How Murray Osten becomes a POW - Dieppe Raid, 19Aug1942

Captain Murray Osten.

POW Postcard from Captain Osten to Mr. G.W. Mann, 24Sep1944 - Front

POW Postcard from Captain Osten to Mr. G.W. Mann, 24Sep1944 - Back

Mr. G.W. Mann

POW Postcard from Captain Osten to Mr. G.W. Mann, 29Oct1944 - Front

POW Postcard from Captain Osten to Mr. G.W. Mann, 29Oct1944 - Back

Gwynne William Mann - Military Service Record - Australian Army - Copyright Commonwealth of Australia, 2002.

Gwynne William Mann - Military Cross award details: for courage and outstanding efficiency at Bardia, 3-1-1941.

"Bardia is a small town on the Mediterranean coast of Libya, in the region of Cyrenaica, approximately 30 kilometres from the Egyptian border. During the early decades of the 20th century it was developed as a miltary outpost during Italy's colonisation of the region. Prior to the Second World War it was fortified by the construction of an arc of defensive posts, 29 kilometres long, around the town and its small harbour.

Bardia was the site of the first battle fought by Australian troops in the Second World War."

Read more at The Australian War Memorial