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Studio portrait of 407713 Aircraftman (AC), later Sergeant (Sgt) No. 32 Squadron RAAF, James Alexander Herman, of Kilkenny, SA.

3940 Cecil George LARSEN with his sister, Agnes Annie Yates (nee Larsen) shortly after his enlistment.

The Rose Park Gun. German 7.7cm Feldkanone 96 (FK96) Field Gun (1896).* One of a battery of German 77mm field guns captured by the 32nd Battalion during the Battle of Amiens that are now located in parks around SA.

Fred Barson, June 1917 Hurdcott England

Australian soldiers from the 29th/46th Battalion carrying a wounded man on a stretcher following combat operations against the Japanese around Gusika, New Guinea, November 1943.

BARMERA, SA. 1943-03-11. OFFICERS OF THE 25/33RD GARRISON BATTALION, 14TH PRISONER OF WAR AND INTERNMENT CAMP, LOVEDAY GROUP. IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE:- S481 LIEUTENANT E.L. ROESLER (1); CAPTAIN G.A. GABELL (2); S427 LIEUTENANT F.W. EVENS (3); S23604 LIEUTENANT A.W. ORCHARD (4); SX21324 LIEUTENANT E.N. EDWARDS (5); S2840 LIEUTENANT C.R. JURY (6) S34891 LIEUTENANT E. FARMER (7); S3065 CAPTAIN R.R. RUDD (8); SX28479 CAPTAIN H.W. HOCKNEY (9); VX114018 CHAPLAIN D.A. GANLY, CHURCH OF ENGLAND (10); S213500 CAPTAIN C. ARCHER (11); V354137 CAPTAIN W.R.J. PHILLIPS (12); S109 CAPTAIN N.M. BARUSCH (13); SX28896 CAPTAIN P.S. EYLES (14); SX22323 MAJOR L. VON BERTOUCH (15); SX223831 MAJOR C.E. HUNKIN (16); S812 LIEUTENANT COLONEL E.L. DEAN, DSO., VD., COMMANDING OFFICER (17); S2700 MAJOR A. DICK (18); SX22325 MAJOR D.W. SHEPHERD (19).

Studio portrait of Arthur John Lammey

Sister Kath Neuss a victim of the Banka Island massacre

The Smythe Boys 1912 L to R Vernon Erle Smythe (Capt MC, 3rd Bn), Herbert Andrew Smythe (Cpl, KIA 3/5/1917, Bullecourt ii) Percy Smythe (2nd Lt, 24th Bn, MC), Edward Vivian Smythe (Major, 17th Bn, MC+Bar)

Major Graham Growden

6408 PTE Alfred Ernest NICHOLLS

The Tenth Battalion on parade at Torrens Parade Ground in Adelaide. It is believed to have been taken in October 1914 just prior to the Battalion's embarking for the Middle East. Torrens Parade Ground is an icon of the State's military history. Having been a militia training area since the early days of the Colony, beginning with the Boer War, many South Australian military contingents have paraded at Torrens Parade Ground prior to embarkation. These days, Torrens Parade Ground is the home of ANZAC House RSL SA State Headquarters.

Group portrait of 9 Platoon, A Company, 2/14th Infantry Battalion on the Kokoda Trail. Identified, left to right, back row: L A Bear; VX15468 Warrant Acting Officer Class 2 John Alexander Lochhead of Mildura, Vic, (killed in action on 29 November 1942 in New Guinea); K T McWilliam; W C Dixon; VX23389 Private (Pte) D H Smith (presumed dead on 20 August 1942 in Papua); VX23597 Corporal (Cpl) L D Deeley MM (was awarded the Military Medal on 12 February 1942, presumed dead on 30 August 1942; VX38131 Pte D W Smith, (presumed dead on 30 August 1942 in Papua); C G Moffatt; M M Turnbull; W C Ferguson. Centre: W R D Smith; G E Urquhart; E P Silver; W C Parfrey; J S Thomas; A A Villinger; VX62637 Pte John Anthony Whellans of St Kilda, Vic, (killed in action on 30 August 1942 in Papua); D A Thompson; D J O'Connor. Front: C E Clifford; L A Delaporte; E L Hughes; VX32903 Lieutenant William Prescott Cox, (killed in action on 29 August 1942 in Papua); F J Parsons; B G Wilson; VX18629 Pte Harry Saunders, of Allansford, Vic, (killed in action on 29 November 1942 in Papua); VX19139 Pte Bruce Steel Kingsbury, of Armadale, Vic, (killed in action on 29 August 1942 in Papua for which he was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross (VC) on 9 Feb 1943); E J Jobe; A R Avery.

James Liddell with his son, James Stanley Liddell NX8279. Probably taken in 1941.

ADVANCE INFANTRY PATROL OF THE 2/27TH AUSTRALIAN BATTALION MOVE FORWARD TO OCCUPY THE HEIGHTS OVERLOOKING EL ARDUN.

This is the Australian convalescent hospital, al Hayat, Helouan, Egypt, which is where William went when he was wounded.

Myrtle, John & William MacGinnes in the family home at Semaphore Park, South Australia. John left and Bill right.

The four WW1 Veterans who returned to France in July 1998: (left to right) Eric Abraham, Howard Pope, Charles Mance and Ted Smout at the funeral of Private Russell Bosisto. They are wearing the French Croix de Guerre awarded to them earlier at the Australian National War Memorial Villers Bretonneaux

Also Known As: "BK"; Baird Kelso ROSS Service number: 6895 Enlisted Horsham Victoria Birthdate: December 28, 1859 - He dropped his age by 15 years in order to enlist . Death:February 29, 1936 (76) Goroke, Victoria, Australia

Off Sumba Island, Netherlands East Indies. 1945-01-15. The crew of the disabled Catalina aircraft, serial no. A24-96, code RK-E of No. 42 Squadron RAAF in their dinghies preparing to move across to the Catalina aircraft of No. 43 Squadron RAAF which came to rescue them. The aircraft had come down near Japanese held territory. On the night of 14 January 1945, during a mission to Surabaya, a plane from No. 42 Squadron RAAF, captained by Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Harrigan, experienced trouble with its port engine and immediately began to lose altitude. At the time Flt Lt Harrigan was flying at 300 feet below heavy cloud off Sumba Island. He jettisoned his mines, but the plane continued to lose altitude and he was forced to alight on the open sea. The hull of the Catalina aircraft was damaged and began to leak. However, the water was kept down by baling. Using the radio-telephone, the crew was able to make its position known to returning minelayers. All night they worked on the faulty engine, but without success. However, in the morning, a Catalina aircraft of No. 43 Squadron RAAF, captained by Flt Lt Ortlepp, landed in the heavy swell, covered by a Liberator aircraft, and took off Flt Lt Harrigan's crew. Flt Lt Ortlepp then destroyed the disabled Catalina aircraft with machine-gun fire and returned safely to base.

Crews and Hampden aircraft of No 50 Squadron at Waddington after the raid on shipping off Bergen, 9 April 1940.

Transferred to the RAF pre War

The family grave of the Carman family; Their three sons Clement Roland and David were all lost in fighting during WW1 in 1916,1917 and 1918. The family tomb bears the three "Dead Men's Pennies" - bronze plaques awarded to the families of the Fallen. They were intended for use in just this way - as memorials to family sacrifice .

A 4.5 inch howitzer of 108th (Howitzer) Battery of the 8th Field Artillery Brigade

SX15214, S10005 Gordon NUNN

2048 CRAM William 43rd Battalion AIF RH#20

22862, Kevin Anthony GABRIEL (MID), , Unit: Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV)

A CH47 Chinook flies in a payload to the 102 Fd Bty LZ at FSB Coral

The second attack at Dernancourt on 5 April 1918

Rupert Ellsmore MC. Military Cross award.

Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. 28 May 1944. Group portrait of the Commanding Officer and Senior Administrative Officer of No. 73 Wing RAAF, with the pilots of the Wing's three Squadrons: No. 77 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF (left), No. 79 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF (middle) and No. 76 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF on Momote airfield. No. 77 Squadron RAAF pilots, back row, left to right: Flying Officer (FO) D. (Doug) Summons; Pilot Officer (PO) Neall; Fo Martin; unidentified; PO D. (Doug) Tapsell; Sergeant (Sgt) Pyke; Sgt Clarke; PO Brocklehurst; Sgt Eames; 430438 Sgt Lindsay Collins (KIA Labuan, North Borneo 26 June 1945); Sgt White. Middle row: PO K. (Keith) Toupein (crouching); FO (George) Pagan; Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) (Dinga) Bell; Flt Lt (Doug) Prowse, Flight Commander; 576 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) C. W. (Cyril) Starke AFC, Commanding Officer, No. 77 Squadron RAAF; Flt Lt McTaggart, Flight Commander; FO C. (Clarrie) Scott; Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) C. (Cliff) Rose; FO W. (Bill) Kaye (crouching). Front row: PO D. (Don) Crane; Sgt Palme; Flt Sgt D. Rogers; Flt Sgt K. Martin; Sgt Dickenson; 409225 Sgt H. W. (Hal) Roberts; Sgt R. Rogers. No. 79 Squadron RAAF pilots, back row, left to right: PO J. (John) Vader; FO A. (Arch) Moore; 437476 PO R. Vernon (Ross) Day (Killed 28 April 1945); Warrant Officer (Jock) Haines; 400735 FO L. S. (Len) Reid DFC; 418232 Flt Sgt G. A. (Alec) Chomley; 405026 FO P. E. (Paul) Sebire; 411809 Flt Lt W. A. (Warren) Napier; 418071 FO W. J. (Bill) Coffey); 401000 FO D. (Doug) Scott. Middle Row: FO J. (Joe) Marshall; FO R. (Dick) Long, Acting Flight Commander, No. 79 Squadron; 251414 Flt Lt J. W. L. (John) Atkinson, Medical Officer, No. 79 Squadron (also known as Leigh); Sqn Ldr J. McD. (Jim) Davidson, Senior Administration Officer, No. 73 Wing; 213 Group Captain G. H. (Gordon) Steege DSO DFC, Commanding Officer (CO), No. 73 Wing; 407778 Flt Lt R. M. (Max) Brinsley DFC, Acting CO, No. 79 Squadron; 402270 FO W. H. (Bill) Wright, Flight Commander, No. 79 Squadron; 403392 Flt Lt A. S. (Alan) Yates. Front row: 401741 PO R. Hugh (Ross) Cameron (KIA 27 March 1945); Sgt V. (Viv) Pollard; 437523 PO H. D. (Hugh) Kennare; 403681 FO I. E. B. (Ian) McKellar; 408951 FO J. (Jim) Barrie; Flt Lt T. (Tom) Williams; FO A. (Arthur) Clayton. No. 76 Squadron RAAF pilots, back row, left to right: Sgt Alec Makeham; ?Sgt Wally Nugent; unidentified Sgt; Pilot Officer (PO) Jim Morris; Sgt (Red) O'Meara; unidentified Sgt; unidentified Sgt; Middle row: ?Sgt J. (Jim) Cornish); FO J. (John) Plain; Flt Lt C. (Charles) Roe, Medical Officer No. 76 Squadron; Flt Lt F. L. (Leigh) Bowes, soon to be Sqn Ldr, CO No. 76 Squadron; FO W. (Bill) Cashmore; unidentified Flt Lt; unidentified FO. Front row: Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) B. (Bruce) Gogerly; unidentified Flt Sgt; unidentified Sgt; ?Sgt F. (Frank) Miles or A. (Alan Carthew; Flt Sgt Noel Butler; unidentified PO. Members of No. 76 Squadron RAAF at that time not identified in this photograph: Flt Lt Jim (Gremlin) Harrison; FO Bruce Caldwell; Flt Sgt Cliff Willis; Flt Sgt Neville Ellis; Flt Sgt Val Higgins; John Lundy.

This is a photo of troops from the 10th Battalion at Gallipoli. This is what it would have been like for Crowder.

3795 Private William LAWSON RH#17

"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]

Ward at 2/4 Australian General Hospital, Labuan, Borneo 1945

Commemorative_Plaque

96826 Myrtle May MacGinnes (Girlie)

9708 Boothey Stanley Field RH#9

2207 PTE Sydney South , 2nd Battalion KIA at Lone Pine

Sister M Hall, Moonee Ponds Baby Health Centre, 1950

Amiens Cathedral

L-R 1914/15 Star, British Empire War Medal, Victory Medal

1344 Private Albert LAMBERT

A 9.2 inch Howitzer of the 36th Siege Artillery Group. The 9.2s were later designated as the 55th Siege Artillery Battery. These were the biggest heaviest guns ever operated by the Royal Australian Artillery. They fired a 130kg shell 9km. The gun weighed over five tons and were clearly not mobile. The gunners are wearing gas masks in anticipation of a gas attack.

Physios Audrey Simpson (l), Marjorie Hill (c) and N H Burgess (r) doing plaster work at 109 AGH, Alice Springs, 1942

Walrus Mk I Seaplane L2177 on Aproach to HMAS Sydney for Recovery by the Cruisers Crane in late 1941, Somewhere in Australian Waters, posib off South Australia. This Photo shows Ray Barrey in the Cockpit taxing the Aircraft, while the Naval Observer Jack Bacon RN assists the Aircrews TAG sitting on the top wing waiting for the Aircrafts Crane to lower the hook which He had to Catch and Hook up to the Wing so it Could then be Winched onboard. In view on the deck of HMAS Sydney is a Carley Float in its stowed poistion, while Looking on are a RAN Petty Officer and a RAAF Member of the Groundstaff. It is believed that this Photo was taken by LAC Keith Homard RAAF, who was a former Newcastle Press Photographer now Part of HMAS Sydney's RAAF Detachment as the Reconnaissance Photograph Sections Commander.