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A 4.5 inch howitzer of 108th Howitzer Battery of the 8th FIeld Artillery Brigade deployed in line behind a dyke or elevated road which provides them with cover from fire and view by the enemy

Group portrait of the original officers of the 10th Battalion, still in their variety of militia uniforms - barely any two are dressed exactly the same. Left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Julius August William Kayser (later Major, killed in action in France on 16 February 1917); Lieutenant (Lt) Clarence Rumball; Lt Louis Gordon Holmes; Lt Trevor Owen-Smyth (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 6 May 1915); Captain (Capt) Sydney Raymond Hall (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915); Lt John Hamilton (later Capt); Lt Alfred Cyril Sommerville; Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) David Leslie Todd (later Capt); and Lt Albert John Bryne (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915). Middle row: Lt Mervyn James Herbert (later Major ); Lt Keith Eddowes Green (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915); Lt Robert James Mansfield Hooper (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 27 May 1915); Lt Eric John Carl Stopp; Lt Hector Roy Heming; Lt Eric Wilkes Talbot Smith, (later died of wounds in Egypt on 30 April 1915); Lt Herbert Champion Hosking; and Capt Harold William Hastings Seager (later Maj and awarded MC). Front row: Lt Eric James Sexton (later Maj); Capt George Dorricutt Shaw (later Maj); Maj Miles Fitzroy Beevor (later Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col)); Capt Harry Carew Nott (Medical Officer) (later Lt Col); Maj Frederick William Hurcombe, Second in Charge (2IC later Lt Col and MID); Colonel Stanley Price Weir (Commanding Officer, later awarded DSO); Capt Francis Maxwell de Flayer Lorenzo (Adjutant later Lt Col and awarded DSO); Capt Charles Francis Minagall (Quartermaster, later Maj); Capt Edward Castle Oldham (later Maj and killed in action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915); Capt Ross Blyth Jacob (later Lt Col); and Lt Vernon Hermann Robley Absent: Lt William Stanley Frayne, (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 6 August 1915); Lt Charles Percy Farrier (later killed in action at Gallipoli); Lt Felix Giles (later Lt Col); 2nd Lt Noel Medway Loutit (later Lt Col); Lt William Howard Perry (later Capt and awarded MC); and Captain George Ernest Redburg (later Maj).

Original grave marker of the crew of Lancaster LL847 JO-D and the common grave in which they are now interred in Le Gros-Thiele Communal cemetery

No. 625 Squadron, RAF based in Yorkshire. Flying Officer Ian Denver, DFC, RAAF, front row, fourth from left. He is wearing the distinctive darker blue uniform of the RAAF in WW2. Denver and his crew flew 16 missions before being transferred to No. 156 (Pathfinder) Squadron, where they flew a further 32 together.

Colonel William De Passey’s medals

Pte Bert Smythe

No. 180 Squadron B25 Mitchell Bomber taxiing for take off from RAF Dunsfold, Surrey UK June 1944

http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/ART27629/ "Part of an anti-shipping strike wing of Coastal Command, No. 455 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, became highly skilled in this role in sweeps along the French, Belgium and Dutch coasts."

HMAS Sydney (II) probably taken in Sydney Harbour

Vietnam War Memorial, Adelaide, South Australia

Studio group portrait of officers of the 27th Battalion. Standing, from left: Lieutenant (Lt) Gordon Campbell Church; Lt James Bichan MacLean; Lt Joseph Otto Julge; Captain (Capt) Percy Gordon Bice. Seated: Lt John Henry Mitchell; Major William Pendennis Devonshire DSO; Lt Claude Cyril John McCann MC; Capt Percy Emil Julge MC and Bar. Inscription reads "To Dear Old Mum. With Best Love From Cyril McCann." One of a collection of portraits, mostly of officers of the 27th Battalion, sent to 'Mum' (presumably Mrs Cotching) during and after the First World War at Cotching, Son & Co's 'The Farm' on Ealing Common near London, where servicemen stayed whilst on leave.

SX10573 Cecil Mark KROEMER 2nd/42rd Battalion

United Kingdom: London. 9 November 1943. Outside Buckingham Palace after an investiture is Wing Commander (Wing Cdr, later Group Captain [Gp Capt]) John Raeburn Balmer OBE, DFC, RAAF of Melbourne, Vic, Commanding Officer of Lancaster No 467 Squadron, RAAF Bomber Command (right), and Squadron Leader D. A. Green DSO DFC, RAF, Devon, UK. Grp Cpt Balmer was lost on operations over Belgium on May 11, 1944. He is buried in the Heverlee War Cemetery near Brussels.

11th Light Horse

429369 Flying Officer (FO) Richard Rodney (Rod) Young, 463 Sqn RAAF, of West Maitland, NSW at the controls of 'H' for How, about to depart on a raid on the Dortmund-Emms Canal in Germany. Just three weeks later he was flying JO-K when it was lost over Giessen, Germany

The second attack at Dernancourt on 5 April 1918

FSgt George Hale, 77 Squadron, and his aircraft "Halestorm", one of very few Meteor pilots to get the better of the Mig 15s over Korea. The effect of the muzzle blast from the two 20mm cannon mounted either side of the nose is clearly evident.

Captain Graham Growden, 10th Battalion RSAR 1986, at the Dean Rifle Range, Osborne

Charles Wilfred Hart

Japanese pilots of the Japanese Navy Tainan Air Group assigned to New Guinea from February 1942 - Saburo Sakai seated middle row second from left - one of the top Japanese Ace of the war who in 1997 lobbied the Australian Government to recognise Warren Cowan's actions on 1942. Standing top row left is PO1/c Hiroyoshi Nishizawa who went on to become the top Japanese Ace. He was killed as a passenger in a transport aircraft over the Philippines in 1944. Sakai survived the war having lost an eye over Guadalcanal. He passed away in 2000.

Australian delegates at the Japanese surrender ceremony on board USS Missouri. Left to right: (back row) Captain J. Balfour; Lieutenant Colonel D. H. Dwyer; Air Vice Marshal G. Jones; Lieutenant General F. H. Berryman; Commodore J. A. Collins. Front row: Rear Admiral G. Moore; General Sir Thomas Blamey (who signed for Australia) and Air Vice Marshal W. D. Bostock.

Possibly one of the most recognised photos of the AIF on the Western Front. Lieutenant Rupert Frederick Arding Downes MC addresses his Platoon from B Company, 29th Battalion on 8 August 1918 during a rest before the advance onto Harbonnieres, the battalion's second objective. They are near the villages of Warfusee and Lamotte, France. The background of the photograph is obscured by the smoke of heavy shellfire. Many of the men pictured were killed in action or died of wounds or disease in the days and weeks after the photograph was taken, being amongst the last Australian deaths during the First World War. Each man has a story. Pte Towers (fourth from right), for example, was a farm labourer of Cootamundra, NSW, who later transferred to the 32nd Battalion. He was admitted to the Abbeville Hospital on 9 November 1918 suffering broncho-pneumonia where he died on 11 November 1918.

Burra School Detachment of Commonwealth Cadets. At least seventeen of the cadets later participated in World War I, teacher in charge Adolph Lott (later Major Lott). Back row: Lance Tiver; Dick Bennetts; G. Burns; H. Fuss; H. Davey; Laurie Clode. Second row: Vern Riggs; Lindsay Page; Andrew Pearce; Ross Harris; Perce Herbert; Guy Tiddy; Clem Tiver; Essen Rule. Third row: Lindsay McBride; Harold Neville; Bob Crewes; Adolf Lott; Colin Taplin; Colin Scott; Harry Davey; Arthur Harris; Darcy Lowe. Front row: Joe Pascoe; Rodney Woollacott; Dick Ockenden; Bob Bartholomaeus; Lesley Carey; Gordon Shortridge

Painting by Will Longstaff depicting the night counter-attack o Villers Brettoneux that recaptured the town and checked the German advance on Amiens, 24/5 April 1918.

Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Trevor Owen-Smythe, 10th Battalion who was a 28 year old station manager from Adelaide, South Australia when he enlisted on 19 August 1914.

Richard FETHERSTON - Postcard to Work Colleagues in Australia

BRave of Warrant Officer Reginald Russell Wicks - Becklingen War Cemetery

The 102nd Howitzer Battery, Australian Field Artillery using 4.5 inch Q.F. Howitzers, in action in a wheat field on the morning of the start of the advance. Left to right: Gunner (Gnr) T. F. McDermott (1); Gnr C. E. Brasington (2); Gnr George Brasington (3); Bombardier (Bdr) C. R. Newton (4); Corporal (Cpl) G. Moysey (5); Gnr L. C. Bennison (6); Lieutenant (Lt) L. C. Wade (7); Lt Heppingstone (8); Bdr D. J. McAlister (9); Gnr W. H. Whitburn (10); Sergeant (Sgt) J. H. Cooper (11); Gnr J. A. Riley (12); Gnr W. Campbell (13); Bdr H. F. Renton (14); Gnr W. N. McCallum (15); Sgt J. Shingles (16); Lt N. J. Delaney (17); Bdr E. T. Green (18); Gnr Dyson-Holland (19); Gnr F. Renton (20); Major D. Toomey (21).

Two men of the 7th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery operate a mortar established in a machine gun post on the new front line near Villers-Bretonneux. From left to right: 1916 Lance Corporal A J Ellis and 2700 Private A Lawler. Photograph taken 10 July 1918.

AWM P04630.001

"We have not forgot you Cobber" inscription on 1036 Pte Samuel RIDLER's grave at Pheasant Wood Cemetery, Fromelles

Australian Army Nursing Sisters Ellen Keats and Elizabeth Pyman. Ellen Keats was evacuated from Singapore on the ill-fated SS VYner Brooke and was murdered by her Japanese captros at Banka Island. Sister Pyman was more fortunate being evacuated on another ship and returning safely to Australia

Three brothers, Private Theo Leslie Seabrook (left), 2 Lieutenant William Keith Seabrook (centre) and Private George Ross Seabrook (right) of Fivedock, New South Wales, Australia were all serving with 17 Battalion, Australian Infantry when they were killed together at Polygon Wood in the Ypres Salient on 20 - 21 September 1917. At the time of their deaths, George was aged 25, Theo was aged 24 and William was aged 21. Theo and George are commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres while William is buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.

Captain Henry Samuel COPE MC, 43rd Battalion

October 1914. Informal group portrait of nine members of the 10th Battalion, all of whom enlisted in 1914, and embarked from Adelaide, SA, on 20 October 1914 aboard HMAT Ascanius and served at Gallipoli. All of these men, except Private (Pte) Guy Fisher and Pte Eric Meldrum were students at St Peters Anglican College in Adelaide, and five of them died during the First World War. Identified, left to right, back row: Sergeant (later Lieutenant) John Rutherford Gordon, invalided to Australia with slight enteric fever, after which he joined the Australian Flying Corps and served as a rear gunner/observer with the 62 Squadron. He was awarded a Military Cross for his courage and returned to Australia (RTA) 6 May 1919; 40 Pte Francis Herbert 'Bertie' Stokes, killed in action on 27 April 1915 at Gallipoli after saving many lives on the day of the landing by rescuing those who fell into the water on the beach and carrying them to the relative safety of the cliff face; 33 Pte Guy Fisher, discharged on 2 January 1916; 41 Pte Eric Douglas Meldrum, returned to Australia on 21 December 1917; 638 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Philip de Quetterville Robin, killed in action at Gallipoli, on 28 April 1915. Front row: 47 Pte Thomas Anderson Whyte, died of wounds at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915; 31 Pte (later Lieutenant) Arthur Seaforth Blackburn, awarded the Victoria Cross on 9 September 1916 for his actions on the night of 23 July 1916; 38 Pte (later Lieutenant) Wilfrid Oswald Jose, transferred to the 50th Battalion, and was killed in action at Noreuil, France on 3 April 1917; 286 Pte Malcolm St Aiden Teesdale Smith, killed in action on 27 April 1915 at Gallipoli, while rescuing fellow soldiers who were wounded.

A Mosquito aircraft of No 87 Squadron RAAF, undergoes an overhaul by unidentified ground crew at Alice Springs, NT. The guns have been removed and a camera placed in the nose of the aircraft in readiness to participate in topographic surveys for the Army. The ground crew are performing maintenance on the undercarriage and in the background is another Mosquito aircraft.

Military Medal Citation

21 Squadron Mosquito in flight

Eric Abraham, Howard Pope, Charlie Mance Ted Smout at the internment of PTE Russell Bosisto, Courcelette Cemetery

Group portrait of trainee pilots of No 1 Flying Training School A Course, January to October 1939. Left to right, back row: 467 Robert Thomas Trigg of Sale, Vic, (later 32 Squadron (Sqn) RAAF, died 6 July 1942); Robert John Ohlmeyer of Clare, SA, (later 3 Sqn RAAF, died 23 November 1939);M L 'Buck' Judell; Edwin Hooper Sargeant; E H Williams; John Henry William Saunders (later 3 Sqn RAAF, died 22 November 1941); Kevin Ansell Goman of Perth, WA (later 23 Sqn RAAF, died 29 May 1940); 484 Brian Leighton Bracegirdle; 475 Robert George Arnold of Lameroo, SA (died 18 January 1942); 467 John Thomas O'Brien; 468 Geoffrey Thompson Newstead of Renmark, SA; W C Ring; 457 Geoffrey William Coventry (later Sqn Leader and Commanding Officer 11 Sqn RAAF, died 2 May 1944); 250499 Herbert Alexander Gamble. Second row: 485 Reginald Lloyd Gordon (later 31 Sqn RAAF, died 27 February 1944); 481 Peter St George Bruce Turnbull (died 27 August 1942); 456 Lindsay Eric Shaw Knowles of Canberra, ACT (later 3 Sqn RAAF, died 22 November 1941); 465 Kevin Herbert Springbett of SA; 470 John Couper Black; 388 Patrick John McMahon; 472 William Eldridge Willard of Sydney, NSW (later 31 Sqn RAAF, died 30 August 1943); 394 Garth Tetley Miles; 3107 Vernon Francis Wilfred Sullivan of Carlton, Vic; 482 John William Kessey of Hamilton, NSW; G L Thurston; R H Thompson; B M H Palmer. Front row: 477 Reginald William Marks; 480 Desmond Charles Pfeiffer; 477 Edwin St Clair Yeoman of Camberwell, Vic (later 10 Sqn RAAF, died 8 August 1942); 390 David Vernon of Lane Cove, NSW; James Norman Alexander of Randwick NSW (later 1 Aircraft Depot (1AD), died 15 January 1940); 391 Athol Galway Hope Wearne of WA; 305 James Cecil Stevenson of Grafton, NSW (later Wing Commander, 1AD, died on 1 December 1942); 3229 Allan Lindsay May of Malvern, Vic (later 1AD, died 10 May 1940); 463 Victor Allan Hodgkinson; 483 Arthur Wichelo Nichols of Wagin, WA; 387 Hugh Augustine Conaghan; 474 Robert Andrew Kirkman; 455 Charles Edwin Cox.

Troops of what is belkieved to be the 10th Battalion on the deck of the battleship Prince of Wales in Mudros Harbour. This ship was part of the fleet which transported Australian troops to the Gallipoli landing at Anzac Cove. The Battalion was embarked on the Prince of Wales before transferring to the fleet small craft that took them ashore at ANZAC to carry out the landing.

Commissioned by the 2/24th Australian Infantry Battalion Association Inc. as part of the Australian War Memorial’s Plaque Dedication Program.

P40 Kittyhawks on the 2 OTU flight line

"SYDNEY" GETTING THE STORY IN THE CAPTAIN'S CABIN. CAPTAIN COLLINS, COMMANDER THRUSTON AND JOHN HETHERINGTON. (NEGATIVE BY PARER).