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War Memorial
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151682812

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/john-simpson-kirkpatrick-and-his-donkey

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/christmas-in-the-trenches

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/cheer-up-society-and-the-rsa

http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ridgewell-frederick-harold.html

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1836962

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1044253&c=WW2

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=7373537

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8029173

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R2450506

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/the-first-australian-battalion-with-national-servicemen-in-vietnam--5-rar-may-1966

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=6242884

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

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/rslvwm/comfy/cms/files/files/000/000/484/original/Faber_-_The_Unknown_Cenotaph.pdf

http://aircrewremembered.com/holland-alan-james.html

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/the-potter-brothers

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/empire-air-training-scheme

https://www.awm.gov.au/sites/default/files/Wartime_Issue_12_Savige_Saviour_by_Ross_Lloyd.pdf

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

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

NAA_ItemNumber3030671.pdf

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

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

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

01_Transcript_-_Part_01_Michael_von_Berg.pdf

03_Transcript_-_Part_03_Michael_von_Berg.pdf

04_Transcript_-_Part_04_Michael_von_Berg.pdf

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

01_Transcript_-_Parts__01___02_Laurence_McEwen.pdf

04_Transcript_-_Part_05_Laurence_McEwen.pdf

05_Transcript_-_Part_06_Laurence_McEwen.pdf

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.

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/curr-francis-lawrence-9882

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.

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https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=67016

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=472712&c=WW2#R

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

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1246791&c=VIETNAM

'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his platoon with great gallantry in the attack and set a fine example of determination and skill in reducing at least two enemy 'pill boxes'. He did excellent work in consolidating the final objective, and set a splendid example of courage and leadership.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 137 Date: 30 August 1918

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=728211&c=WW2#R

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

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8096962

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

https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141344230>.

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=1944064

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=5256458

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=1078596

Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 12 August 1917, pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 20 July 1916'. Note on Red Cross File No 920705: 'No trace Germany. Cert. by Capt. Mills, 10.10.19.'

https://pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/anson/LT294.html