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James Rowan trained as a seaplane pilot in the RAAF attached on board HMAS Australia. He was killed in a flying accident off the NSW coast in early 1942
Constance Ivy (aka 'Cora') Sinclair
Able Seaman Telegrapher Jim Simm served in the RAN 1943-1946
Frank Sincock served with the 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion
When the Boarding Party from HMAS Sydney reached the beached Emden, to recover the dead and wounded, they also recovered the Captain's safe, containing the ships imprest of funds for procuring fuel rations and so on . 6,429 Mexican Silver 8 Reales were found. One thousand of those coins were given to William Kerr jewellers, with the company commissioned to produce the Sydney-Emden Medal. Adorning each Mexican silver dollar with the King’s Crown in unison with superb scrolls, the jewellers created one of the most memorable decorations in military history.
Sydney transiting the Strait of Tiran at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba.
Lyall Klaffer and his US Air Force Navigator after returning from a mission over Hanoi in his beloved F4 Phantom
Portrait of Flying Officer (FO) Lyall Klaffer of Adelaide, SA, who has been recalled from 78 Fighter Wing RAAF in Malta to become aide-de-camp (ADC) to Australia's new Governor General, Field Marshal Sir William Joseph Slim (in office 8 May 1953-2 February 1960). FO Klaffer won an American DFC while flying with 77 Squadron RAAF in Korea. He is shown with his favourite Vampire jet fighter shortly before returning to Australia. The Wing is in Malta for garrison duty.
Lyall Klaffer and his US Air Force Navigator after returning from a mission over Hanoi in his beloved F4 Phantom
Informal outdoor portrait of Sapper (Spr) Darren "Smithy" Smith and Spr Jacob "Snowy" Moerland, 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment with the Explosive Detection Dog (EDD) Herbie. Sappers Smith and Moerland, along with Herbie, were killed by an IED on 7 June 2010. Taken - Afghanistan: Uruzgan Province, Patrol Base Wali
Norm Ginn (3rd from left) and his 460SQN Lancaster crew alongside their 460 SQN Lancaster P for Peter. The crew are FTSGT S. T. Mason (RAF), PLTOFF F. Howe-Browne (South Africa), FSGT N. Ginn (South Australia), FLGOFF T. Alford (NSW), FSGT A. Daley (Western Australia), FSGT L. Leask (New South Wales), SGT H. Folland (RAF). Alford and Howe-Brown perished when their Lancaster AR-J was shot down on the evening of 2 Dec 1943.(AWM)
Kevin Graham served as RAAF Ground Staff
George Graham Army 1940-45 Militia and AIF service
Douglas Hall served in the RAAF from 1942-46
Max Hay served in the Army 1940-45
Don Halliday served in the Militia and the AIF rom 1942-6
Mrs Ruby Boye at her AWA tele-radio, standard equipment of the Coastwatchers , but hardly portable!
Memorial Plaque, Springvale Cemetery, Melbourne Victoria.
The Commemorative Installation explaining the connection between the Adelaide suburb of Dernancourt, and its French namesake
The cylinder containing soil from the Dernancourt Battlefield to be interred in the Memorial
6 Machine Gun Battalion Camp at Dapto NSW – 1942 L-R Colin Langtry – NX143859; Lindsay Palmer – NX143848; George Burt – NX178673; George Anderson – NX143857; Jack Game – NX143851
Australian medals awarded for service in North Africa including Tobruk. L-R 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal, British War Medal, Australian Service Medal 1939-45
Portrait of members of 17 Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), at Night Defence Base 'Garth' near Route 2 in Phuoc Tuy Province. Identified, left to right: 3797822 Sapper (Spr) Derek Alan Crute; Spr Bracken; 2205906 Spr Robert J Hanson; 3797636 Spr John Peter Timmins; 6709687 Spr Gary Sidney Rutherford; 61813 Spr Ivan Royce Ballard; Spr A Ciotcha; 56274 Spr Gregory John Amm; and 2794010 Spr Gary Patrick Wolf. The men are about to board the M113A1 armoured personnel carrier (APC) behind them to investigate a reported sighting of bodies. The report was correct, and a number of Vietnamese civilians were found who had been shot. The feature in the background is Courtenay Hill.
'Darwin Defenders' Medal Group. L-R Defence Medal 1939-45, British War Medal 39-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45 overlaid with a Rising Sun badge
Staff and patients in a ward of the 119th AGH, Darwin, tin hats at the ready in case of further attack, February 1942.
Murray Chambers served in the RAAF from 1944-1947
Douglas Whitman served in the Navy from 1940 until 1947
Jack Williamson RAAF 1943-1946
Jack Williamson RAAF 1943-1946
Fred Richardson served in the RAN between 1945 (enlisted aged 18) and 1946
Stanley Holm Watson CBE, DSO MC, ED, Serbian Order of the Double White Eagle
Flying Officer Raymond Edward Trebilco
Aubrey James ' Dead Man's Penny' held by his family
NF443427 Private Kathleen MICHAEL

NF443427 Private Kathleen MICHAEL
TX11229 Private Roy Absolom

TX11229 Private Roy Absolom
A No. 431 Squadron Lancaster B Mk III running up its engines.

A No. 431 Squadron Lancaster B Mk III running up its engines.
Group portrait of instructors and pupils of the 1st flying training course in front of a B.E.2a aircraft in a hangar. Back row: R Williams; T W White. Front row: George Pinnock Merz of Ballarat, Vic; H A Petre; E Harrison; D T Manwell. WIlliams went on to become 'The Father of hte RAAF'. White served in the Middle East and was captured and imprisoned by the Turks for 2 1/2 years before an epic escape. Merz was the first Australian Military aviator killed in action, in Mesopotamia.

Group portrait of instructors and pupils of the 1st flying training course in front of a B.E.2a aircraft in a hangar. Back row: R Williams; T W White. Front row: George Pinnock Merz of Ballarat, Vic; H A Petre; E Harrison; D T Manwell. WIlliams went on to become 'The Father of hte RAAF'. White served in the Middle East and was captured and imprisoned by the Turks for 2 1/2 years before an epic escape. Merz was the first Australian Military aviator killed in action, in Mesopotamia.
Markings on the trunnions of No. 1 gun of the pair of Crimean Cannons - Russian 36 pounders.Cannons

Crimerian Cannons
The pilot (on the right) and Flight Engineer of a No. 149 Squadron Vickers Wellington bomber in 1941

The pilot (on the right) and Flight Engineer of a No. 149 Squadron Vickers Wellington bomber in 1941
"On the road to Jerusalem"

"on the road to Jerusalem"
Phillip Edward CAWTHORNE DFC, captain of Lancaster PB 949 lost 4 April 1945
Opening of the Villers Bretonneux Memorial and adjacent cemetery 1938. Two years later it was overrun by another invadng German Army

Opening of the Villers Bretonneux Memorial and adjacent cemetery 1938. Two years later it was overrun by another invadng German Army
AE2 and AE2 alongside at Garden Island in Sydney 1914

AE2 and AE2 alongside at Garden Island in Sydney 1914
Private A Allmond

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