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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.
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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.
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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.
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AWM P04630.001
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"SYDNEY" GETTING THE STORY IN THE CAPTAIN'S CABIN. CAPTAIN COLLINS, COMMANDER THRUSTON AND JOHN HETHERINGTON. (NEGATIVE BY PARER).
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Flight Sergeant Norman MacDOnald's 'Catepillar Club' badge
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1774 Joseph Alfred Irwin
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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.
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WW1 Meritorious Service L- R Military Medal (MM), 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
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Morphetville race course - where he trained
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Portrait of Captain J. A. COLLINS, June 1940 while Captain of of HMAS SYDNEY (II)
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"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Ernst Grunert, Ran,1940-1945.
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Service Medals of P/O James RENNO, DFM
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846 Private Roy Stephen KENYON, MM
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A Halifax of 158 Squadron with its aircrew astride the fuselage and wings
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VFX94085 Captain Nora Heysen, Official war artist, Military History Section, at 106th Casualty Clearing Station.
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THOMAS, David John, Service No: 561, Unit: 44th Infantry Battalion STRAND MILITARY CEMETERY Grave II. D. 9.
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Seconded to Hawkers to continue his test pilot duties, F/L Richard C "Dickie" Reynell was attached to No 43 Squadron RAF for operational experience at RAF Tangmere on 26 August 1940. After claiming an Me 109 destroyed on 2 September, the 28-year-old Australian was shot down 5 days later, in combat with enemy fighters over south London. Bailing out of Hurricane Mk I FT-F, wounded, his parachute failed to open and he fell dead near Blackheath.
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SA State Library PRG 280/1/29/73 Mounted soldiers of the South Australian Light Horse Regiment on parade for a Colour Presentation ceremony at Morphettville racecourse, South Australia
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1914/15 Star 22919 War Memorial 18924 Victory Medal 18855
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AE2 at sea travelling at speed on the surface
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"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Enid Mundy, Airforce, 1941- 1946.
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The No. 18 Squadron disbandment parade
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Malaya. 1941. Group portrait of three nursing sisters of 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station (2/4 CCS), 8th Australian Division. Left to right: Sister D. S. Gardam, who survived the sinking of the Vyner Brooke, was taken prisoner by the Japanese and died later in captivity in April 1945, Sister E. M. Hannah, also a survivor from the Vyner Brooke and the only surviving nurse of the 2/4 CCS, and, Matron I. Drummond, who, after surviving the sinking of the Vyner Brooke was among those massacred by the Japanese on the foreshore of Banka Island, Sumatra on 1942-02-16.
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Australians prepare for an attack near Bullecourt, France, May 1917. [AWM E00454]
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Standing: Capt P Samson, Lieut Richard Harry Sampson, Q R Serg't Harry Percy Sampson. Sitting: RSM Harry Wills Sampson, Capt. Richard Sampson, RQM Serg't Frederick Sampson.
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Mount Gambier's iconic Blue Lake, the caldera of an extinct volcano, filled by the plentiful aquifers in the Mount's substates.
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179 Sgt (later Lieutenant) William John Shaughnessy RH#14
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Service graves in the Communal Cemetery section
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Edwards with his wife, left, and mother-in-law, right, leaving Buckingham Palace after attending an investiture ceremony at which he was awarded the VC.
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463-squadron Lancaster 'S for Sugar' bombing-up at RAF Waddington. The large cylindrical bomb is an 8,000lb 'blockbuster' a larger version of the 4,000ln 'Cookie'.
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No. 76 Swuadorn - BCOF Japan 1947 BOFU, JAPAN. 1947-07-15. PILOTS FROM 76 SQUADRON, 81ST FIGHTER WING, RAAF, GET A FINAL BRIEFING NEAR THEIR AIRCRAFT FROM THEIR FLIGHT LEADER FOR THEIR DAYS DUTY OVER THE BCOF AREA. SHOWN: 50971 WARRANT OFFICER N. J. BAX OF BALRANALD, NSW; WARRANT OFFICER V. G. BARKELL OF CONCORD, NSW; 115515 WARRANT OFFICER J. C. SAMPSON OF WARRAMBOO, SA; WARRANT OFFICER S. W. WILLIAMSON OF ST KILDA, VIC; 418588 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT D. V. TERRY OF ELWOOD, VIC, FLIGHT LEADER.
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Distinguished Conduct Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
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Oscar Baumann's medals: 194/15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal
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1696 Private Milo James MORRISON 2nd Battalion
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The Fromelles Memorial Park was opened on the 4th July 1998. The centrepiece is a bronze statue depicting Sgt Simon Frazer, a 40 year old farmer from Victoria, of the 57th Battalion AIF. Whilst he was recovering wounded on the battlefield after the battle, Fraser heard a wounded man shout out “Don't forget me, cobber.” Fraser was later commissioned in the field as an officer. He was killed at Bullecourt the following year and has no known grave. His name is on the wall at Villers Brettoneaux.
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Australian Engineers, of the 15th Field Company, making crosses for their fallen comrades amid the ruins of Ypres. Out of the ancient oak, which formed the doors and interior fittings of the historic Cloth Hall, pounded to wreckage by German bombardments, they fashioned many monuments to the men who made the supreme sacrifice. 31 October, 1917.
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John Jackson and his brother Les photographed at the Alexandria Zoo while serving in the Middle East prior to returning to Australia to join No. 75 Squadron. Both men would command the unit with Les succeeding his older brother after he was killed in action.
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Flying Officer Robert Croft
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Portrait of 437282 Flight Sergeant (later Pilot Officer) Norman George Steer of Prospect, SA, Pilot (left), and 434107 Flying Officer Basil Trevor Roberts of Townsville, Qld, Navigator. They formed a ship-busting crew flying Beaufighter aircraft with RAAF 455 Squadron operating out of RAF Langham station, UK. On 15 October 1944, their aircraft ditched into the sea after attacking enemy trawlers off Norway. Only the body of FO Roberts was recovered, and he is buried in the Risor Civil Cemetery on the south coast of Norway
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