Keywords: WOII Walter Peeler 117835.JPG Walter Peeler VC of the 2/2nd Australian Pioneer Battalion an ex-prisoner of war to the Japanese playing with 3-year-old Ferne Pope who had been in Japanese hands since she was three months old on the deck of a British troopship during the journey back to Australia Peeler had perviously served in the First World War being decorated with the Victoria Cross in 1917 117835 Author 1945-10-10 PD-Australia PD-1996 Australia DEFAULTSORT Peeler Walter Walter Peeler Black and white photographs |