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Sister M Hall, Moonee Ponds Baby Health Centre, 1950

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

1344 Private Albert LAMBERT

A 9.2 inch Howitzer of the 36th Siege Artillery Group. The 9.2s were later designated as the 55th Siege Artillery Battery. These were the biggest heaviest guns ever operated by the Royal Australian Artillery. They fired a 130kg shell 9km. The gun weighed over five tons and were clearly not mobile. The gunners are wearing gas masks in anticipation of a gas attack.

AWM P06893.001

1986 Robert William LAKIN 9 Light Horse Regiment / 54th Battery14th Field Artillery Brigade

An informal squadron briefing at 24 Squadron - A72-80 in shot at rear of he group of men walking towards the camera.

This is a slightly damaged photo of ANZAC Beach, Gallipoli, 1915. The beach has soldiers and supplies arriving by boat.

Chevillon, Haute Marne, France

427870 Bernard Francis CODY taken at enlistment 1942

418913 Flying Officer Norman Jack Bowman

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

Richard FETHERSTON - Postcard to work colleagues in Australia

The 54th Siege Battery in action in support of the Third Ypres campaign in September 1917. The guns are 8 inch howitzers, the shells for which have been shipped in by light rail right to the gun position. This is one of a series of photographs taken by Official War Photographer Frank Hurley.

German POWs captured by Allied Forces in 1942 at El Alamein. AWM 044985.

Vickers Warwick and crew including P/Offr John "Bart" Bartholomew 1st left, the Navigator. This crew was involved in a near disaster and their aircraft was lost after an emergency landing and runway overshoot brought on by an Engine Failure (and fire) After Take-Off (EFATO), resulting in the aircraft overshooting the runway and crashing into the sea. All of the crew survived. Crew in front of their Warwick `B4` L to R: Nav F/O Bart Bartholomew, 2/Pilot H.Bath, W/AG Ted Russell, Pilot Jack Murray, W/AG Cledwyn Evans, W/AG Colin Acton and A/G F/O C.H.Haywood. Photo: Ted Russell.

On the flight back to Sydney, with experienced flying boat Captain Lloyd Mundrell in the left hand seat.

Group portrait of the crew of Lancaster ME733, radio call sign CF-Z, 625 Squadron, RAF. Identified are: (back row, from left) 1868639 Sergeant (Sgt) Samuel John Spooner (Flight Engineer), RAF, of Kettering, Northamptonshire; 1389429 Sgt William Edward Lynch (Bombardier), RAF, of Leonards-on-Leigh, Sussex; 423214 Sgt Rric A;lan Bock (Navigator) RAAF, of Newcastle, NSW; 43025 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Noel Wilkinson Gadsden (Aerial Gunner), RAAF, of Kew, Vic; front row from lrft to right, 411099 Flt Sgt Malcolm Douglas Moffat, RAAF of Armidale, NSW; Warrant Officer (WO) Francis McLeod Percy of West Maitland, NSW (Pilot) RAAF and 1119630 Sgt Frederick Howard (Wireless/Aerial Gunner), RAF. Lancaster ME733 crashed at Hollenstein, Germany whilst returning from a raid over Brunswick on the night of 12/13 August 1944, killing all crew members.

7083 Private Robert William Thompson, with his motherless little children prior to Embarkation

Flying Officer Anthony Shanahan

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.

WW1 (post Dec 15) and WW2 Home service - British War Medal, Victory Medal, British War Medal WW2, Australian Service Medal 39-45

Surrounded by Australians, wounded North Vietnamese prisoners lie on makeshift stretchers and wait to be evacuated from Balmoral.

An Australian digger searches for his mate's grave amid the shell-torn landscape that was Pozieres. The fact that so many men have no known grave is unsurprising given field burials like these which could be subsequently obliterated by more fighting and shellfire. After the war these ad hoc burials were concentrated into the cemeteries we know today.

SA Premiers ANZAC Spirit Prize group visited Toronto Avenue on 19th April 2013. Toronto Avenue cemetery can only be reached via a walking track from the vicinity of Prowse Point cemetery,past Mud Lane cemetery and through Ploegsteert Wood.

Distinguished Flying Cross (original WW1 style ribbon), 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

James Christian Ehrke, my great uncle. James' cerebral meningitis caused by camp conditions according to medical records. He renlisted in WW2 for Homeland Defence.

A Short Sunderland Mk.III (EK573/P) of No. 10 Squadron RAAF on the water after alighting to rescue 3 survivors from a Vickers Wellington of No. 172 Squadron RAF, clinging to a one-man dinghy (seen at right) after being shot down in the Bay of Biscay while attacking a German submarine on 26 August 1944. Although it was forbidden for flying boats to alight on the open sea in rescue attempts, the pilot of the Sunderland, Flight Lieutenant W.B. Tilley, decided the survivors could wait no longer for surface craft to arrive, and touched down to pick them up for a safe return to Mount Batten, Devon (UK). A fourth member of the Wellington crew, Flying Officer R.B. Gray RCAF, refused to risk the lives of the other survivors by overloading the dinghy, although he was seriously injured. He succumbed during their fifteen-hour ordeal at sea and was awarded a posthumous George Cross. The pilot of the Sunderland of No. 10 Squadron RAAF who made the hazardous sea landing and take-off was Flight Lieutenant William Boris Tilley DFC of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia).

We are so Proud of Clive R.I.P.a light horseman who died in the trenches with a sniper bullet to the heart, trying to save one of his platoon mates....never to return home to his Family. Died for Freedom and Honour.

920 Francis Michael LOCK AFC RH#23

CALLANDER Arthur Stanley 3047 Pte 27th Bn

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

3495A Gunner (Gnr) Harold Constantine 5th DAC

Reginald Francis GRIMLEY

William Gough's medal set: L-R Distinguished Conduct Medal, 1914/15 Star, British War medal , Victory Medal

An Australian patrol in part of the anti-tank ditch. Compared to another photo purporting to be in an anti tank ditch, which is not much more than a shallow depression, this image gives avery graphic impression of the nature of the obstacle. The aim is to ground a tank in the bottom of the ditch at an angle that prevents self-recovery.

Driver James Benjamin Attrill

A Sunderland aircraft of No. 10 Squadron RAAF P Peter takes off after effecting a successful rescue of the three survivors of the crew of a crippled Wellington aircraft B of No 172 Squadron RAF which shot down by a German submarine the previous night. The rescuing aircraft was piloted by Flight Lieutenant W. B. Tilley DFC of Melbourne, Vic.

Bellicourt Cemetery

Men of an Anti Tank Company at Tobruk; The 2nd/3rd Anti Tank Regiment and the 24th and 26th Anti Tanl Companis served at Tobruk.