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Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. AUSTRALIAN MILITARYÂSinking of HMAS Perth on 1st March 1942, by one of the survivor of the Battle of Sunda Strait. Skeels joined the navy in 1941 at the age of eighteen, and a year later was in the great battles of the Java Sea and Sunda Straits in which the Perth and its allies were sunk. Held in the Japanese death camps until the warâs end, he was shipped as a slave labourer from Java to Malaya, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and finally Japan. Royal Australian Navy. P.O.W. #280315/150423viii, 151 p.: ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.Skeels Fred -- Biography.ÂÂ|ÂÂPerth (Cruiser)ÂÂ|ÂÂCruisers (Warships) -- Australia.ÂÂ|ÂÂJava Sea, Battle of the, 1942.ÂÂ|ÂÂSunda Strait (Indonesia), Battle of, 1942.ÂÂ|ÂÂWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Australian.ÂÂ|ÂÂWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian. Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Stiff Wraps. Octavo, stiff pictorial wraps, b&w illus, pp 151. Presentation inscription from the author. Publisher's bookmark loosely inserted, Near-fine condition. Memoir. The West Australian author joined the navy in January 1941 at the age of eighteen. A year later he was in the great battles of the Java Sea and Sunda Straits in which the HMAS Perth and its allies were sunk. Skeels sank with the Perth and spent the rest of the war in Japanese death camps. In 2002 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to returned prisoners of war.