Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Wiakerie is a popular location for recreational gliding

DCM, MM, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

1630 Private Bruce Oscar STEWART 2nd Australian Infantry Battalion

HIRST, Brian Elwood Johnston

This is an image of the letter that William sent to the camp commander, begging for his discharge.

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.

Vietnam War Memorial, Adelaide, South Australia

Private Paul ANdrew LARGE was a national service conscript from Coolah in Queensland, and part of D Company 6RAR. He was one of the 17 soldiers of D Company killed in action in the course of the Battle of Long Tan.

7083 Private Robert William Thompson

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Ronald Custance, RAAF, 1944-1945.

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Nicholas McGovern, Army, 1942-1945.

During World War II, the airfield at Deniliquin was primarily a training base. From June 1941 until August 1944, 2206 pilots graduated from No 7 Service Flying Training School. As the end of the war neared, a number of operational units were moved to the base to be disbanded.

Nine members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 6RAR. By the end of Operation Bribie three of these young men were dead and five had been wounded. Only one emerged from the battle unscathed. Image courtesy of J. O'Halloran. [AWM P02452.002]

The Kings and Regimental Colours of the 2nd/27th Battalion, laid up in Scots Church North Terrace Adelaide

Amiens Cathedral

Commemorative Medallion issued to the families of the Fallen - aka "The Dead Man's Penny"

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

The CWGC Plot at Lignieres de Touraine Communal Cemetery

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

Stonehaven War Memorial. Stonehaven and Dunnottar - Kincardine & Deeside District UKNIWM Ref No. 8693 The Stonehaven and Dunnotar war memorial takes the form of a large sandstone, circular ruined Doric temple with eight pillars, raised on three high steps of rustic blocks. The commemoration and names of the WWI dead are listed on a dressed grey granite stone with a pinkish hue which stands in the centre of the paved enclosure which is entered into via a wide stair and wrought iron gate. The monument is clearly visible from the distance above the road on a headland south of the village. It was built in 1922 and officially unveiled in 1923 to commemorate the men and women who lost their lives in the ‘Great War’. It was designed by local architect John Ellis to resemble a ruined temple – possibly to signify the ruined lives of those whose names are on it. There is no record as to why he designed it to look ruined – no working drawings or sketches. It certainly is very different to most of the other war memorials in this area. The money to build the memorial was raised by the local community in one year through a variety of fundraising events and donations. The Black Hill was chosen as the site for a memorial as it was a popular place for the people of the town to visit – windy but with amazing views up and down the coast and just a short walk from the town. The main part of the memorial is local sandstone, cut from a quarry that existed at the south end of Stonehaven’s harbour. Inscribed on the external faces of the lintel stones: SOMME - MARNE - ZEEBRUGGE - GALLIPOLI - JUTLAND Inscribed on the internal faces of the lintel stones: 'ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF STONEHAVEN AND DISTRICT' Inscribed above the entrance: A TRIBUTE 1914 TO THEIR DEAD 1919 ONE BY ONE DEATH - CHALLENGED THEM - ONE BY ONE THEY - SMILED IN HIS - GRIM VISAGE - AND REFUSED - TO BE DISMAYED

Lance Bombadier Larry Davenport mans his weapon pit and an M60 Machine Gun the morning following the first attack on FSB Coral.

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

Wing Commander Hughie Edwards

6787, Pte S.A. Beare 27 Battalion AIF

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.

DCM, MM, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

MEMBERS OF 2/28 INFANTRY BATTALION USING A HAND RAILWAY TROLLEY TO MOVE THEIR HEAVY GEAR TO THE NEW UNIT POSITION.

Major General Paul Cullen, AC, CBE, DSO and bar, ED

Flying Officer Anthony Shanahan

John Francis TUCKER's grave

SW Pacific Area of Operations - Paua New Guinea Bougainville and the Solomon Islands

Plymouth, England. C. 1943. Portrait of Flight Lieutenant R. W. Marks of Norwood, SA, a Sunderland aircraft captain of No. 10 Squadron RAAF at RAF Station Mount Batten.

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.

Bullecourt church and Slouch Hat memorial. Stevve Larkins collection

Mk21 Beaufighters just after delivery to No. 93 Squadron after its formation in early 1945, at Kingaroy Queensland.

PRIVATE: Albert Ernest WORRALL; 1906-42, at Age: 36yrs. Military: 2nd Australian Imperial Force - Australian Army - WWII - 2nd/29th Australian Infantry Battalion. Origin of Portrait: (AWM) Australian War Memorial; Accession No: P02784.025.