Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

2017_Jasmine_Grist_Arthur_Fillis_Grist.pdf

Gillies St Primary School - 1904

2017_Jessica_Timms_William_Walter_Atkinson_Fox.pdf

2017_Josh_Berman_Eric_James_Jarrett.pdf

2017_Josh_Loxton_James_Oliver_Cass.pdf

2017_Laura_Stephens_Vernon_Hocking.pdf

2017_Lily_Bright_John_Rutherford_Gordon.pdf

2017_Abbie_Nourse_Frederick_John_Schenscher.pdf

2017_Lucy_Fielke_Ada_Rose_Alleyn.pdf

2017_Alicia_Crowhurst_Jessie_Emily_Wakefield.pdf

2017_Alyssa_Siebert_Hero_Aloysius_Boylan.pdf

2017_Metala_Burgess_Claude_Vivian_Radford.pdf

2017_Hannah_Brown_Evelyn_Claire_Trestrail.pdf

WARMAN.pdf

alan_radford1.pdf

MarjorieHill_Letter_1942.pdf

Research_Checklist_WW1.pdf

Research_Checklist_WWII.pdf

Medals_for_Australians.pdf

LHS Plaque at St Peters Heroes Memorial

A Matilda Tank several of which payed a crucial role at Slater's Knoll

Showing Slater's Knoll a week after the Japanese attacked on the morning of 5 April 1945. The front had now been pushed forward and life was quiet again on Slater's Knoll; the 25th Australian Infantry Battalion had just vacated the position and it was now occupied by troops of 'B' Company, 58/59 Australian Infantry Battalion. This work was painted with the simple object of showing life in a dug-in forward position, and gives an idea of many other sites where the infantry had been dug in for some time. The latrine with a 4-gallon oil drum serving as a seat, would be out in the open, away from the tents on the right, and food would be carried in dixies from the cook house, further back, and served to the men on the position. In the tents were two bunks made by using the canvas of the issued stretchers, supported by saplings. The legs of the stretchers were then stored in the Left Out of Battle (LOB) area, as they would be too bulky to carry. Pictured, is a Bren gun pit in the immediate left foreground where a lad is shown cleaning his weapon. There is a steep bank on the left of the picture, making a natural defence. This is actually at the rear of the site. As the Japanese attempted to take the knoll by force of numbers they approached up the gently sloping side to the right, beyond the limit of the painting. The Bren gun in the pit in the foreground supplied most effective cross fire. On the right can be seen part of a large bomb crater, made during the Japanese occupancy, and the uprooted trees cutting diagonally across the picture were evidently thrown up when the crater was made.

Studio portrait of 405605 Aircraftman Walter Henry Rose of Cloncurry, Qld.

Hand coloured studio portrait of Pilot Officer Henry Rose, DFC, of No. 156 Squadron (RAF), Pathfinder Force

WCDR John Balmer, while CO of No. 100 Squadron RAAF September 1942. Later CO of No. 467 Squadron, lost on Ops.

United Kingdom: London. 9 November 1943. Outside Buckingham Palace after an investiture is Wing Commander (Wing Cdr, later Group Captain [Gp Capt]) John Raeburn Balmer OBE, DFC, RAAF of Melbourne, Vic, Commanding Officer of Lancaster No 467 Squadron, RAAF Bomber Command (right), and Squadron Leader D. A. Green DSO DFC, RAF, Devon, UK. Grp Cpt Balmer was lost on operations over Belgium on May 11, 1944. He is buried in the Heverlee War Cemetery near Brussels.

A Bristol Beaufort a light bomber in which Jack Reed flew

Jack Reed (R) and mates somewhere in northern Australia

3697 PTE Patrick Weir 3rd Pioneer Battalion

Auction notes 25th September 2008 DNW website 1914-15 Star (O.N.2263 Ord. Sea.); British War and Victory Medals (A.B., R.A.N.); War and Australia Service Medals (2263 R. F. Grimley); Royal Australian Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension, with Second Award bar (2263 Leading Seaman, R.A.N.); H.M.A.S. Sydney - S.M.S. Emden Medal, 9 November 1914, silver Mexican Dollar dated 1895 , mounted by W. Kerr, Sydney, unnamed; Western Australia, Sydney - Emden Commemorative Medal, reverse inscribed (part engraved) ‘Presented by the People of Western Australia to R. F. Grimley, Boy 1 Class’, mounted for display, edge bruising, first three worn; others very fine (8) £1800-2200

The battered hulk of the SMS Emden after it was beached on North Keeling Island

Consolidated Catalina Mark I, AH562 'AX-', of No, 202 Squadron RAF, anchored at Gibraltar after an anti-submarine patrol

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Air and ground crew of No. 202 Squadron RAF check equipment and ordnance issued to Consolidated Catalina Mark I, AJ159 'AX-B', on the slipway at North Front, Gibraltar, in preparation for a patrol.

AN RAF Catalina of No. 202 Squadron returns to Gibraltar after a patrol

LTCOL Steve Larkins Commanding Officer 9th Combat Service Support Battalion 2000-2001

Found at last. AE1 in 300m of water off Duke of York Islands

Australia's first submarine AE1 in dry dock at Cockatoo Island in Sydney in June 1914

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Ronald Custance, RAAF, 1944-1945.

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Anthony Cameron, Navy, 1941-1946.

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Ernst Grunert, Ran,1940-1945.

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Nicholas McGovern, Army, 1942-1945.

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Alexander James Macbeth, Army, 1942-1945.

Bristol Beauforts at No. 1 Operational Training Unit, Bairnsdale, Victoria. Nearer camera: A9-102, 262097, Flying Officer Peter John Gibbes, DFC; A9-66, 377, Squadron Leader Cyril Clarence Williams.

The sinking of troopship SS 'Ballarat' which took place on 25 April 1917 in the English Channel. A submarine torpedoed the 'Ballarat', which was carrying Australian troops from Melbourne to England. Efforts made to tow the ship to shallow water failed and she sank off The Lizard the following morning. No lives were lost of the 1752 souls on board.

In November 1967 a 9 Squadron Iroquois lands to pick up members of the 7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) during operation Santa Fe, a gruelling three week-long operation through inhospitable country some 23 kilometres from the Task Force Base at Nui Dat. [AWM COL/67/1127/VN]

Nine members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 6RAR. By the end of Operation Bribie three of these young men were dead and five had been wounded. Only one emerged from the battle unscathed. Image courtesy of J. O'Halloran. [AWM P02452.002]

Unidentified radio operator of B Company 9 RAR on Operation Friendship 3. Radio communications were better and more readily available than in any previous conflict.

Graham Leaver in camp at Heliopolis, Egypt in 1916

RAAF OVERSEAS HQ, LONDON, ENGLAND. 1943-03-16. 402571 PILOT OFFICER (PO) C. R. G. GRANT DFM (LEFT) WON HIS AWARD 1942-11 FOR HIS CONSISTENT SKILL AND DETERMINATION IN NIGHT OPERATIONS OVER ENEMY TERRITORY, AND 403564 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT J. K. DOUGLAS DFC WAS CITED 1943-01 AS "A MOST DETERMINED AND SUCCESSFUL CAPTAIN OF AIRCRAFT WHOSE QUIET CONFIDENCE AND KEEN SPIRIT HAVE BEEN AN INSPIRATION TO ALL."