Public to see gambling game Frogopoly for the first time

AUSTRALIA'S World War II prisoners of war were very inventive at finding ways to amuse themselves and one of the results was the intriguingly-named pastime of Frogopoly.

The gambling board game was invented by West Australian-born Private Bill Marshall, a member of the 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion and Middle East veteran captured by Japanese forces on Java.

Private Marshall died in 1968, aged 63, and his game remained in the possession of family members who offered it to the Australian War Memorial late last year.

It's now gone on display as an unusual example of prisoner craft.

"It is a really interesting addition," War Memorial historian Dr Lachlan Grant said. Read More