Item 334 - Bob Cole, Personal and ANGAU (Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit) files.

pages (13cmx105cm) and 1 page 175x145)

Bob Cole was a Captain with ANGAU in the Maprik area 1944-45 and he, and other ANGAU officers operated behind enemy lines. The file contains Cole's notebook kept during the Sepik war operations, which provides information about the 'sentries' (village men who were paid to spy on the Japanese), a 'Black List' of village men and a list of the Sentries, with comments about their activities and reliability, A handwritten note sent to Bob Cole by Rink De Jong (a member of a Dutch Party) on 1/5/44 after his party had been 'jumped by the Japs', Correspondence between Bob Cole and Professor Alan Powell 1988-1996, Biographical information and letters about other men who served with ANGAU. Significant items include five notes passed from village men to Bob Cole during the Torricelli Campaign from November 1944 to September 1945. They record Japanese activities, such as the number of soldiers, their ammunitions and villagers killed. Five notes in pencil, written in Pidgin with typed English translations. 7