Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

A memorial to the 460 Squadron crew lost on 13th June 1943

Group portrait of twelve NCO‘s of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service relaxing at the 2/7th General Hospital, Australian Army Medical Corps, after the march past ceremony and prior to taking up postings to the 2/7 or the 2/8 Australian General Hospitals. 1. NFX201487 (NX201487) Corporal (Cpl) Jean Pynor; 2. NFX202015 (NX202015) Cpl Eileen Everett Lloyd; 3. NFX174883 (NX174883) Cpl Thelma Maxwell Lawless; 4. NX130961 (N409388) Sergeant (Sgt) Marie Therese Bouffler; 5. VX112622 Sgt Jean Hamilton Baird; 6. VX121486 (V501002) Cpl Eleanor Mary Birchall; 7. VX112994 Sgt Sheila Florence Mathers; 8. VFX126851 Cpl Laura Alma Lawson; 9. NF451738 Cpl Nancye Joan Brierley; 10. VX91145 Cpl Patricia Lock; 11. NX148139 (N410205) Sgt Alice Mary Murray; 12. NX169975 Cpl Elsie Seccombe.

Harry Crockers grave at Pheasant Wood

L-R Military Cross, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal Victory Medal with MiD clasp

87 Squadron Photo Reconnaissance DH 98 Mosquitos

MID Medal Set: British War Medal, Victory Medal (with oak leaf symbolising Mentioned In Dispatches)

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.

109 AGH, Alice Springs, marquee and tented section

AWM caption : FOULSHAM, ENGLAND. 1945. 'JANE' (NO. MZ913), A HANDLEY PAGE HALIFAX B MARK III AIRCRAFT 'N' OF NO. 462 SQUADRON RAAF. THE BOMBER FLEW OVER 100 TRIPS AND WAS USED IN THE FIRST OPERATIONS OF THE SQUADRON. IT WAS FINALLY CONSIGNED TO THE WRECKERS IN CARDIFF, WALES ON 1945-05-04. NO 462 SQUADRON HALIFAX AIRCRAFT HAD VERTICAL YELLOW STRIPES ON THEIR TAIL FINS FOR IN FLIGHT IDENTIFICATION.

3190 Private Kenneth Morton KNOX 50th Battalion

RAAF Crest

Flying Officer Vic Hodgkinson

John Carr Ewen's medal set; L-R Miitary Cross, Distinguijhsed Conduct Medal, Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal, Pacific Star, British Service Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45

5110 PTE John HIRD

Studio portrait of 2304 Private (Pte) Albert Dunster, 39th Battalion. A farmer prior to enlisting on 29 June 1916, Pte Dunster embarked for overseas service in October 1916. He was wounded on 30 April 1917 and died later that day. Pte Dunster is buried at Trois Arbres cemetery, Steernwerck, France.

Willaston Cemetery Grave of parents

3491 Private John Stanley SGELTON 9 LHR RH#21

One of the former 87 Squadron Mosquitos painted red privately registered and sponsored by AMPOOL ready for departure to London for an air race. It never made it crash landing in a swamp in Burma after a bad weather diversion.

Newspaper article detailing Tom Flynn's tragic demise

Arthur Blackburn, VC, arguably Australia's most remarkable citizen soldiers. Among the first ashore at Gallipoli and with another man reached farthest inland, he was later commissioned. He won a Victoria Cross at Pozieres in unrelenting fighting. He had a distinguished career in public life between the wars and commanded with distinction in the Middle East and Dutch East Indies in WWII becoming a POW after commanding 'Blackforce' in Java.

The SA Police WW1 Service Honour Roll

The Bullecourt Digger - the famous bronze statue of a digger looking across the Bullecourt battlefield from the town cemetery. Steve Larkins colelction

A Spitfire Mk XIV in the colours of No. 91 Sqn summer of 1944

Some of the Australians involved in the Dams Raid. Most were not to survive the War.

938 Private William George SYMS

3294 PTE Leslie DOWDELL RH#11

Sister M Hall, Moonee Ponds Baby Health Centre, 1950

2/4 Australian General Hospital, Labuan, Borneo 1945

429369 FO Richard Rodney (Rod) Young, 463 Sqn RAAF. FO Thomas wrote on the back of the image "Out for a ride in the sunny English Country in summer. At Church Broughton, Derbyshire, July 1944".

North Africa Western Desert - A Tomahawk aircraft of No. 3 Squadron RAAF being re-armed before another sortie. Image made by George Silk

Peter Masters during the recording of his oral history for the series 'Australians at War' . He also featured in the video documentary '44 Days' narrated by Geoffrey Robertson QC, released in 1992, links to which are contained in the 75 Squadron history.

England. 1944-06-11. Group of aircrew at No. 180 squadron RAF. Left to right: 405107 Flying Officer (FO) W. Kirk, Brisbane, QLD (KIA 20 June 1944); 405054 FO B. W. Klemm, Brisbane, QLD; 415259 FO H. Hawthorn, Hastings, NZ; 417379 Flight Sergeant J. Jennison, Adelaide, SA; 422248 FO J. B. O'Halloran, Sydney, NSW; 422080 FO R. M. Kennard, Canberra, ACT.

Signage indicating the location of Bancourt British Cemetery

A photograph taken on 10 July 1918. Two men of the 7th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery operate a mortar established in a machine gun post on the new front line. From left to right: 1916 Lance Corporal A J Ellis and 2700 Private A Lawler. This position was part of a few hundred yards captured from the enemy in a silent daylight raid on 9 July by a party of the 27th Battalion. The location is just east of Villers-Bretonneux between the railway and the south side of the Amiens-St Quentin main road, alongside a position called 'The Orchard'. A fine example of the "peaceful penetration" tactics employed by the Australians at this time.

9th-Light-Horse-9th-Light-Horse-crossing-the-Suez-Canal-at-Serapeum-Egypt-in-February-1916

“Blood, Sweat and Fears” ISBN: 978-0-64692-750-3 Medical Practitioners and Medical Students of South Australia who served in WW1

Far and away: The young Private Bill Cassidy spent five of the eight years of his marriage away at war.

Morphettville Camp in 1915 (i.e. after Cowper passed through).

Short ‘Empire’, VH-ABB ‘Coolangatta’ of QANTAS. Impressed by RAAF as A18-13 and allocated to 11 Squadron RAAF. It was returned to QANTAS on 13 July 1943, but crashed in Sydney Harbour on 11 October 1944.

MEMBERS OF 2/2 FIELD REGIMENT, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY, LOADING THE 155MM M1 "LONG TOM" BEFORE FIRING ONTO THE JAPANESE POSITIONS 14,600 YARDS AWAY. THE SHELL WEIGHS 95 POUNDS.

The Burnside Primary School Memorial Gates, officially dedicated in 1925 to former students who lost their lives in the Great War.

Flying Officer David Payne Croston, 463 Squadron.

RAN Badge

Australians dress the wounds of a North Vietnamese prisoner captured in the aftermath of an attack on Balmoral. AWM CRO/68/0580/VN