Australian Soldiers, Memorials and Military History

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8216042

William Frederick HAMILTON's service record

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Gallery151/dist/JGalleryViewer.aspx?B=4265509&S=4&N=28&R=0#/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ShowImage.aspx?B=4265509&T=P&S=4

NAA Service Record Albert Edward DUNN

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=7887055

John Gordon HAMILTON's Recommendation for the Military Medal

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068501/document/5506285.PDF

Gilby SMART's WW1 service record

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8087348

AWM - Embarkation Roll

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1898425

Meritorious Service Medal - Sergeant John William ('Jack') INGHAM HQ 4th Infantry Brigade 'For conspicuously good work and devotion to duty during the period 22nd September 1917 - 24th February 1918. In the recent operations at POLYGON WOOD and ZONNEBEKE the Brigade and dumps were always kept replenished, due to the energy and foresight displayed by this N.C.O. Regardless of danger he has performed his duties to the utmost satisfaction and set a fine example to those working under him.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 110 Date: 25 July 1918

Nominal Roll - George Edwin Rogers

George_Edwin_Rogers_Nominal_Roll_Image.jfif

Moora Historical Society - Moora WW2 Site

https://heritagedetection.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/hidden-history-of-a-ww2-oven-at-moora/

NAA Service Record PECH Edward Gustave

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8011338

Researching_a_person_WW1

Researching_a_person_WWI_2019_v2.pdf

Guide to Reading a WW1 Service Record 2021

Guide_to_Reading_a_Service_Record_2021.pdf

Abbreviations and Glossary

Abbrev___Glossary.pdf

Reading a Unit Diary

Guide_to_Reading_a_Unit_Diary_edited.pdf

Finding Photographs 2019

Finding_photographs_2019.pdf

Researching Trove 2019

Researching_Trove_2019.pdf

Building a profile student guide 2018

Student_Guide_Building_a_Profile_updated.pdf

DVA Nominal Roll entry

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=689900&c=WW2#R

Robert WORKMAN's DVA WW2 Nominal Roll extract

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=137281&c=WW2

Michael Roach's Service Record

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8035184

In July, 1944, Flight Lieutenant Fopp was acting as instructor during a night flying test, when his aircraft collided with another aircraft, tearing away the whole of the starboard elevator and about one-third of the starboard tail' plane. In addition, the port tail plane was damaged and all but one foot of the port elevator torn away. The aircraft' became uncontrollable. Assuming command, Flight Lieutenant Fopp made preparations to abandon the aircraft but by careful piloting was able to regain control and fly it back to the airfield. He lowered the wheels and made preparations for landing but the aircraft went out of control again. With great skill and presence of mind, he raised the flaps and, regaining some degree of control, effected a landing, at the same time succeeding in preventing a blockage of the runway. It was then found' that the tail wheel had also been ripped away in the collision. Throughout the whole incident, this officer showed the greatest coolness and skill and his action was entirely responsible for the safe landing of the aircraft and its occupants."

Des Sheen was awarded his DFC by King George VI for "leading three Spitfires against a superior number of enemy aircraft, of which he forced one into the sea and inflicted serious damage on another. Later he led two British fighters against seven Heinkels, and although wounded in the leg and ear, he continued the attack until a leaking petrol tank forced him to withdraw from the engagement". These actions occurred on 21 October and 7 December 1939.

A Tribute to a Special Lady

SKM_C36821042212570.pdf

John Talbot Wright, aged 32, a motor mechanic and former chauffeur, was arrested on 11 September 1920 by Constable Cecil Elliott after a sensational car chase through city streets. Wright had stolen a brand-new luxury car, a Studebaker limousine belonging to Albert Cosman Jones, managing director of a company called Australian Motor Services Limited. Jones told the press that he had parked the car in the street outside his flat in Bayswater Road, Rushcutters Bay. He was in conversation with a friend inside the flat when he heard the car being started. Rushing from the apartment, he found Constable Elliott on point duty nearby. Together they commandeered a passing car and gave chase to the limousine, Constable Elliott on the footboard firing his revolver at intervals. Eventually, just outside the Captain Cook Hotel in Paddington, the pursuing car drew abreast of the stolen car and Elliott jumped across to the footboard of the limousine, threatening to shoot the driver if he did not stop.1 Wright’s photograph shows him wearing a Returned from Active Service badge. When he came before the court on Monday 13 September, his solicitor pleaded in his client’s defence that Wright was a returned soldier who had enlisted in 1915 and been wounded in action and ‘badly buried as a result of a shell burst’, and that he was ‘a complete nervous wreck when he arrived home’. The solicitor had a letter from a medical specialist stating that Wright had a ‘morbid mental bearing’.2 The solicitor did not mention that Wright had enlisted under the assumed name Jack Russell, Russell being his mother’s maiden name. As Jack Russell he had embarked for the front on 30 September 1915 with the 4th Reinforcements of the 17th Battalion on HMAT Argyllshire. His service dossier shows that he saw active service in Egypt and on the Western Front, that he spent quite a bit of time in military detention for various offences, and that he was hospitalised on a number of occasions for mostly unspecified ailments, but it has nothing specific to say about his being wounded in action. In any event, when Wright appeared before the committal court in August neither the magistrate nor the police prosecutor was sympathetic to the solicitor’s shell-shock plea, the prosecutor asking: ‘If everyone came before the court with the excuse of shell-shock where would we be?’3 Constable Elliott’s actions, on the other hand, were much acclaimed. He was himself a returned soldier, only 22 years old and a policeman for just seven months. As one journalist put it: ‘Before Elliott joined the force he was engaged in the most exciting of all chases – for Germans in France’.4 1.The National Advocate (Bathurst), 13 September 1920, p1. 2.Evening News, 13 September 1920, p6. 3.Ibid. 4.The National Advocate, op cit.

DVA Nominal Roll

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1060032&c=WW2#R

AIF Project Listing

https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=263551

AIF Project Record Dodd Alfred Mehan

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=206054

Max Derbyshire's Nominal Roll WW2 extract

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=620188&c=WW2#R

NAA Service Record Herbert Sydney TURNER

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=1920549

Leighton (WA ) Battery Heritage Site

http://www.artillerywa.org.au/raahs/history.htm