Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

WW1 medal set - Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal with MID Clasp

MILLETT, Reginald Wellington

Flight Sergeant Norman MacDOnald's 'Catepillar Club' badge

The entrance to Becourt Military cemetery

A Boulton-Paul Defiant of 153 Squadron in daylight colour scheme clearly showing the aircraft's most distinctive feature - the four gun turret. While initially conferring a tactical advantage, its weight later proved an insurmountable handicap. Image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Mk1_Defiant.jpg

NF462502 Gunner Norma Vesta MEAKIN's headstone at Rookwood War Cemetery

Prowse Point Cemetery taken from its neighbour Mud Corner

1774 Joseph Alfred Irwin

Brian Grasby's Basic Training Course at Mt Brecon, Victor Harbor, SOuth Australia

Squadron Leader Keith "Bluey" Truscott taxis his P40 Kittyhawk on the Martson Matt perforated steel plate strip at Milne Bay

The grave pf Private Edward Burney 32nd Battalion at Pheasant Wood Cemetery Fromelles

his rare colour photo shows P/O Orme and his crew back at Watton after a successful attack on shipping off the Dutch coast, 18th August 1941, just 10 days before they were lost in this same aircraft V6436 YH-L. P/O Orme can be seen climbing from the cockpit, behind him are two members of his ground crew, next to them wearing his Officers cap is P/O Gunnis, and far right on top of the fuselage is F/O Collins. (L. Gover)

Ground crew from 451 and 452 Squadrons at RAF Matlaske May 1945

Mustang IIIbs of 19 Squadron April 1944. These aircraft have the 'Maxwell Hood' derived from the Spitfire to give better vision than the standard P51B/C Mustang.

PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND. 1943-01-29. PORTRAIT OF 477 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT R. W. MARKS, FLIGHT COMMANDER, NO. 10 (SUNDERLAND) SQUADRON RAAF AT RAF STATION MOUNT BATTEN.

BAY OF BISCAY. 1943-05-29. A LIFEBOAT FROM FRENCH DESTROYER 'LA COMBATTANTE', TRANSFERRING FROM SUNDERLAND T9114-E OF NO 461 SQUADRON, RAAF, SIXTEEN SURVIVORS OF TWO OTHER AIRCRAFT WHICH CRASHED INTO THE SEA. THE SUNDERLAND SUFFERED HULL DAMAGE DURING ITS SUBSEQUENT TAKEOFF CAUSING THE CAPTAIN, 400841 PILOT OFFICER G.V. SINGLETON, TO DECIDE TO LAND ON ANGLE AIRFIELD RATHER THAN ALIGHT ON WATER AT HIS HOME BASE. LITTLE FURTHER DAMAGE RESULTED FROM THE LANDING.

Bede DOWD at about the time of his enlistment

Flight Sergeant Roy Wamsleys grave, Blacon Cemetery, Chester, United Kingdom

Two soldiers of the Supply Depot, 1st Australian Division, with boxes of corned beef and canned meat and water cans, Anzac Cove, 1915. Image Australian War Memorial.

Sergeant Nancie Dod on arrival in Lae New Guinea 1945

Family dedication to Cpl Herbert (Bert) Andrew Smythe on the Bullecourt Petit Croix

7204v Signaller Louis Leon BRUGEAUD RH#12

Kapara Nursing Home Memorial - a WW2 Hospital site

The cover of Gellert's most successful book of poetry, which cemented his reputation as Australia's premier warrior poet of WW1

Members of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company excavating at Hooge, in the Ypres Sector. Work on these dugouts constituted a record for Tunnelling Companies employed under such conditions, for the ground, in close proximity to the famous Hooge Crater, was a shell churned marsh and soakage was heavy. Accommodation was dug for two Brigades and Headquarters of one Machine Gun Company. Commenced on 5 June 1917, the task was completed and dugouts handed over to the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Brigades on 19 September, for the use of the troops engaged in the operation of the following day. Identified, foreground, left to right: two unidentified members of the 56th Battalion; 5488 Sapper (Spr) C. G. Allcock (third from left, looking at camera); unidentified member of the 56th Battalion (working with Allcock). Background, left to right: 5529 Spr H. J. Edmonds; 5374 Second Corporal E. S. Sherrin (resting against sandbags); 3688 Spr J. Tither; 3363 Spr J. E. Rimmer (pushing upright cart); 5380 Spr J. W. Mcdonough (second from right); 5555 Spr J. J. Horne (extreme right).

WW1 Meritorious Service L- R Military Medal (MM), 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Louverval Cemetery collonade - a striking memorial

Larry Davenport FSB Coral 13 May 1968

"Six Snug Signallers" a group of 29th Battery signallers - Front row Bombadier Frank Ball and Allan McPherson

Rosetta Joan Wight

Morphetville race course - where he trained

Vincent Armstrong's grave at West Terrace AIF Cemetery

Grave marker of eleven members of the 21st Battalion who were all killed in action at Mont St Quentin, France on 1 September 1918 and buried in a mass grave. Listed on the plaque are: 6817 Sergeant Colin Edward Hunt from Surrey Hills, Victoria; 2116 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Albert Henry Blackmore, MM from North Maldon, Victoria; 5413 L Cpl Gustaf William Oscar Staaf from Echuca, Victoria; 6833 Private (Pte) Albert Edwin Kelly from Ballarat, Victoria; 6874 Pte Francis William Roberts from Upper Hawthorn, Victoria; 6380 Pte Alfred Roy Smerdon, from Murrayville, Victoria; 6178 Pte William Hugh Thorburn from Newtown, NSW; 664A Pte Edwin Werrett Thompson from Colac, Victoria; 6747 Pte William Francis Dowell from Thornbury, Victoria; 6781 Pte David George Gregory Chandler from North Williamstown, Victoria; and 6398 Pte Alexander Walker from Rochester, Victoria. The above listed were all later moved to individual graves in the Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

Avenue of Honour Bacchus Marsh postcard, ca 1950

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

Portrait of Captain J. A. COLLINS, June 1940 while Captain of of HMAS SYDNEY (II)

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Ernst Grunert, Ran,1940-1945.

In one of the most iconic photos of the Second World War, pilots of No. 87 Squadron scramble to their Hurricane Mk 1 (note the two bladed wooden propellers) in France to engage attacking Luftwaffe aircraft.

Flying Officer Gordon Nunn DFC, pilot, and Flying Officer Hugh Mitchell DFC, observer, both 464 Squadron RAAF, in the cockpit of a de Havilland Mosquito aircraft.