Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Private William Charles Addems

Driver James Benjamin Attrill

Spr John Frederick BOARDMAN 6393

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HMAS Canberra running underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge, under construction in this 1930 photograph

HAMS Canberra Sydney Harbour 1929, dressed with flags and firing a salute. Note the Supermarine Walrus seaplane, belonging to and crewed by No. 9 Squadron RAAF.

HAMS Canberra in Sydney Harbour 1929, dressed with flags and firing a salute. Note the Supermarine Walrus seaplane, belonging to and crewed by No. 9 Squadron RAAF.

HAMS Canberra Sydney Harbour 1929, dressed with flags and firing a salute. Note the Supermarine Walrus seaplane, belonging to and crewed by No. 9 Squadron RAAF.

Physios and nurses of 2/4 AGH staging on Morotai Island, 1945 (Marjorie Hill back row, left)

CALLANDER Arthur Stanley 3047 Pte 27th Bn

Sappers work on dugout near Hooge Crater, near Ypres, September 1917

Unidentified solder entering tunnel under Hill 60, near Ypres

Typical scene, Menin Road (near Ypres) near where Sapper CSA Campbell was killed, 18 September 1917

JEH Butler's name on last shell fired from Anzac Cove, 12 December 1915

JEH Butler's name on last shell fired from Anzac Cove, 12 December 1915

JEH Butler's name on last shell fired from Anzac Cove, 12 December 1915

Robert Glendenning Jemison's 'Dead Man's Penny' in a circular wooden frame. In the collection of his Great Nephew, Bruce James-Martin. In a fascinating twist of fate, Bruce is a friend of John Wadlow, narrator of the accompanying story.

Sister M Hall, Moonee Ponds Baby Health Centre, 1950

Sister M Hall, Moonee Ponds Baby Health Centre, 1950

No. 77 Driver Sidney John PENHALIGON from the Queenslander 12 Jun 1915

Commemorative_Plaque

Coomalie Creek, NT. 20 January 1943. A group portrait of pilots and observers of No. 31 Squadron RAAF standing on and in front of a Squadron Bristol Beaufighter aircraft. Left to right: front (standing): Pilot Officer Cormie; 260740 Flight Lieutenant John Alfred Madden; Squadron Leader G. W. Savage; Sergeant Barnett; Squadron Leader E. Cook; Flight Lieutenant G. A. Greenwood; Flight Lieutenant P. E. Beven; Flying Officer J. D. Entwhistle; Flying Officer D. Delaporte. In front Sergeant B. Agnew (holding a dog). Note the mascots, a Joey (young kangaroo) in front of the group and the dog held by Sergeant Agnew.

No. 77 Driver Sidney John PENHALIGON -from the Queenslander 31 Oct 1914

No. 77 Driver Sidney John PENHALIGON, 3rd Field Ambulance 1914

3342 Private Harry Lincoln BROOKS of the 27th Battalion

The CWGC Plot at Lignieres de Touraine Communal Cemetery

The crew of Lancaster ME 851 'PO B' BackRow, L-R Sgt Edmund Goode RAFVR Flight Engineer, FSgt William Paul, FSgt David Paterson, FSgt Arthur Jenkins A/G, Front Row D Stevenson (not on the fatal flight), P/O Wilson Wright (Nav), FSgt James Ewen, FLt William Murphy RCAF

Lignieres de Touraine

Thomas Harvey's ID disc - an artefact of the

75 Squadron DH Vampires based in Malta 1954

No 156 Squadron May 1943 at RAF Warboys, CO WCDR Rivett-Carnac

Flight Sergeant Norman MacDOnald's 'Catepillar Club' badge

Outdoor group portrait of six signallers in the snow. Identified back row, left to right: 19636 Gunner (Gnr) Reginald Sylvester Mason; 19822 Gnr Gilbert James Simmonds; 19657 Stanley Clarence Whiting; 19806 Gnr Lewis Ewen McKenzie (later MM). Front row, seated: 19616 Gnr Frank Orman Ball and 19634 Gnr Allan Lyle McPherson (later MM). These men embarked for service overseas with the 8th Field Artillery Brigade aboard HMAT Medic (A7) on 20 May 1916 (Gnrs McPherson, Whiting and Ball from Sydney and Gnrs McKenzie and Simmonds from Melbourne). Gnr Mason, a printer from Corrowa, NSW, prior to enlistment, died of wounds in Belgium on 27 September 1917, aged 22. The other five men survived the war.

L-R 1914/15 Star, British Empire War Medal, Victory Medal

Lieutenant Leonard Gurner, 60th Infantry Battalion AIF

Memorial Stained Glass Window in the Uniting Church Knightsbridge SA, commemorating the life of Leonard GURNER, a parishoner

Australian soldiers from the 29th/46th Battalion carrying a wounded man on a stretcher following combat operations against the Japanese around Gusika, New Guinea, November 1943.

WW1 - Commemorative Medallion, known colloquially as the "Dead Man's Penny", presented to families of the Fallen together with a scroll signed by King George V. Over one million minted.

Headstone of Private D S HAILES, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion WW2. This is a private grave in Salisbury Memorial Park

WW1 - A very rare medal set - a Military Cross AND a Military Medal, 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.

WW1 medal set embarkation pre Dec 1915. 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

WW1 medal set - embarkation before 31 Dec 1915. 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

WW2 RAAF Aircrew NW Europe Distinguished Flying Cross, 1939-45 Star, Aircrew Europe Star (operations over NW Europe before D Day) , Defence Medal (service in a prescribed area in this case the UK) , British War Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45

Western Front: (Belgium), Ypres Area, Locre. Group portrait of the officers and NCOs of the 24th Machine Gun Company. In the foreground are two Vickers machine guns on their tripods. Left to right, back row: 422C Corporal (Cpl) J. H. Parker 429B Cpl H. J. Heywood 425A Cpl G. B. Redford MM MSM 372 Cpl C. W. Lane 438 Cpl P. P. Murphy 427B Acting Cpl J. W. Biggs Middle row: 504 Cpl H. S. Chave 1928 Cpl H. W. Courtney 501B Sgt C. W. E. Morris 426D Transport Sergeant (Sgt) C. Sugg MM 422A Sgt C. C. McPhee 617 Company Sergeant Major (CSM) P. O'Brien 414D Sgt V. A. J. Deeker 460A Sgt F. P. Packer 292 Sgt J. R. Reeves 424 Sgt C. B. Popkin 428A Acting Cpl C. E. Reade Front row: Lieutenant (Lt) L. D. Sinclair Lt T. R. Jack MC Lt F. R. Watts Major F. B. Hinton MC Lt C. C. Dight Lt W. A. Shelley MM

WW2 RAAF Aircrew Europe post D Day 1944. L-R 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star (prior to DDay the Aircrew Europe Star was issued) , Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45

WW1 medal set - Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal with MID Clasp

Jamestown HB02 - Jamestown & DIstrict Honour Board

WW2 pacific medal set - L-R; Pacific Star, British War Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45