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3190 Private Kenneth Morton KNOX 50th Battalion

RAAF Crest

John Carr Ewen's medal set; L-R Miitary Cross, Distinguijhsed Conduct Medal, Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal, Pacific Star, British Service Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45

Arthur Blackburn, VC, arguably Australia's most remarkable citizen soldiers. Among the first ashore at Gallipoli and with another man reached farthest inland, he was later commissioned. He won a Victoria Cross at Pozieres in unrelenting fighting. He had a distinguished career in public life between the wars and commanded with distinction in the Middle East and Dutch East Indies in WWII becoming a POW after commanding 'Blackforce' in Java.

The Bullecourt Digger - the famous bronze statue of a digger looking across the Bullecourt battlefield from the town cemetery. Steve Larkins colelction

A Spitfire Mk XIV in the colours of No. 91 Sqn summer of 1944

Sister M Hall, Moonee Ponds Baby Health Centre, 1950

2/4 Australian General Hospital, Labuan, Borneo 1945

429369 FO Richard Rodney (Rod) Young, 463 Sqn RAAF. FO Thomas wrote on the back of the image "Out for a ride in the sunny English Country in summer. At Church Broughton, Derbyshire, July 1944".

England. 1944-06-11. Group of aircrew at No. 180 squadron RAF. Left to right: 405107 Flying Officer (FO) W. Kirk, Brisbane, QLD (KIA 20 June 1944); 405054 FO B. W. Klemm, Brisbane, QLD; 415259 FO H. Hawthorn, Hastings, NZ; 417379 Flight Sergeant J. Jennison, Adelaide, SA; 422248 FO J. B. O'Halloran, Sydney, NSW; 422080 FO R. M. Kennard, Canberra, ACT.

A photograph taken on 10 July 1918. Two men of the 7th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery operate a mortar established in a machine gun post on the new front line. From left to right: 1916 Lance Corporal A J Ellis and 2700 Private A Lawler. This position was part of a few hundred yards captured from the enemy in a silent daylight raid on 9 July by a party of the 27th Battalion. The location is just east of Villers-Bretonneux between the railway and the south side of the Amiens-St Quentin main road, alongside a position called 'The Orchard'. A fine example of the "peaceful penetration" tactics employed by the Australians at this time.

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“Blood, Sweat and Fears” ISBN: 978-0-64692-750-3 Medical Practitioners and Medical Students of South Australia who served in WW1

Short ‘Empire’, VH-ABB ‘Coolangatta’ of QANTAS. Impressed by RAAF as A18-13 and allocated to 11 Squadron RAAF. It was returned to QANTAS on 13 July 1943, but crashed in Sydney Harbour on 11 October 1944.

MEMBERS OF 2/2 FIELD REGIMENT, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY, LOADING THE 155MM M1 "LONG TOM" BEFORE FIRING ONTO THE JAPANESE POSITIONS 14,600 YARDS AWAY. THE SHELL WEIGHS 95 POUNDS.

RAN Badge

Australians dress the wounds of a North Vietnamese prisoner captured in the aftermath of an attack on Balmoral. AWM CRO/68/0580/VN

Colonel Harold Jacobs, Senator Anne Rushton, Allen Day (95), Brian Coleman (94), Hans de Vries (a few days short of his 94th birthday), Leesa Vlahos and Fred Pelder at the B25 unveiling at Parafield Airport South Australia.

Reference image only to provide position detail for those named. This image is not for sale. Group portrait of the men of the 6th and 8th Battalions making their way under shell fire from the trenches near Railway Wood, in the Ypres Sector. Identified are: 442 Sergeant (Sgt) Robert Alexander McLean from Beeac, Victoria (1); unidentified (2); 1639 Sgt Percy Gye Flemington, Victoria (3); 1423 Private (Pte) Henry John Streets from Portsmouth, UK (4); 4444 Pte Thomas Alexander Brown from Golden Square, Victoria (5); 5208 Pte Eric Clinton Teague from Bendigo, Victoria (6); 3800 Sgt Arthur Ronald Holloway from Chiltern, Victoria (7); 4615 Pte Matthew Trewhella from Bendigo (8); unidentified (9); unidentified (10); 131 Pte E M Hughes, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) (11); unidentified (12); 5088 Pte H J Floate, RGA (13); unidentified (14); unidentified (15); unidentified (16); 5246 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) James Callil Ferry from Carlton, Victoria (17); unidentified (18); L Cpl Benjamin Crosby from Richmond, Victoria [killed in action in Belgium 8 July 1916] (19); 2936 Corporal (Sgt) John Thomas Pinchen MM from South Melbourne, Victoria(20); 5454 Pte David Styles from Hamilton, Victoria (21); 7150 L Cpl Harold James Gray from Parkville, Victoria (22); 3115 Sgt Bernard Gordon Murphy from West Melbourne (23); 5107 Pte Herbert Edward Hellyer from Cavendish, Victoria (24); unidentified (25); 6728 L Cpl Reginald Miller Cullen from Temora, NSW (26); Lieutenant John Gibson Pitt from Surrey, UK (27); 5443 L Cpl Samuel Redmayne from Alexandra, Victoria (28); Captain Alexander George Campbell DSO from Sandringham, Victoria (29); 3831 Sgt Leslie Gordon Kittle MM from Shepparton, Victoria (30); 2017 Pte David Owen MM from North Melbourne (31); 1111 Sgt Jack John Jorgenson from Hawthorn, Victoria (32); 2423 Pte Arthur Leslie Beachcroft from Moonee Ponds, Victoria (33); Pte Trevalla [possibly 2166 Pte John Rowe Travers from Werribee, Victoria (34); 354 Sgt Allan Couper Robertson from Leongatha, Victoria (35); unidentified (36); 1839 Pte William John Thomas from Geelong, Victoria (37); 2448 Pte Albert James Radley from Dunkeld, Victoria (38); 4306 Pte Blain Stanley Skinner from Albert Park, Victoria (59).

A Martin Mariner of 40 Squadron. Like the Sunderland it was a pure flying boat with no amphibian version, a feature which extended the life of the Catalina design beyond its contemporaries.

NX30NR Henry HULIN 2nd / 4th Field Regiment

SX2663 Private Edward Ernest SMITH

R075 DUNN Albert Edward, Private 1902 50th Bn

3342 Private Harry Lincoln BROOKS of the 27th Battalion

Wirraways of No. 2 SFTS, c. July 1941; No. 7 SFTS also operated the type, and inherited aircraft from No. 2 SFTS when it disbanded in April 1942

The ubiquitous DH 82 Tiger Moth, backbone of the Empire Air Training Scheme and the aircraft in which Tom Tobin learned to fly. http://www.stephanschutze.com/uploads/3/1/0/6/3106267/1942_tigermoth_01.jpg

Vickers Warwick and crew including P/Offr John "Bart" Bartholomew 1st left, the Navigator. This crew was involved in a near disaster and their aircraft was lost after an emergency landing and runway overshoot brought on by an Engine Failure (and fire) After Take-Off (EFATO), resulting in the aircraft overshooting the runway and crashing into the sea. All of the crew survived. Crew in front of their Warwick `B4` L to R: Nav F/O Bart Bartholomew, 2/Pilot H.Bath, W/AG Ted Russell, Pilot Jack Murray, W/AG Cledwyn Evans, W/AG Colin Acton and A/G F/O C.H.Haywood. Photo: Ted Russell.

The cover of Arthur Hoyle's biography of Highie Edwards featuring the STella Bown portrait.

QX10333 Athol 'Ned' Bayly in his first suit

Standing: Pte J R Holland, Pte G Rehn, Pte D P Howard. Seated: Pte R A Howard, Pte P W Brown, Pte V V Woolard

1613 Richard William KIRBY 3rd Light Horse Regiment / 1st LH Machine Gun Squadron

William Smith's trench art

HMAS Canberra running underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge, under construction in this 1930 photograph

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. 180 Squadron B25 Mitchell Bomber taxiing for take off from RAF Dunsfold, Surrey UK June 1944

HMAS Sydney (II) probably taken in Sydney Harbour

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

The second attack at Dernancourt on 5 April 1918

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

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.

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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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.