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War Memorial
Australia

No. 77 Driver Sidney John PENHALIGON, 3rd Field Ambulance 1914

DCM, MM, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

1184 Private James Michael TYNER 3 Fd Amb RH#22

The grave of 937 Sergeant Harold Prisk of the 9th Light Horse Regiment, at the AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Adelaide

AWM caption : Richmond, NSW. c. 1938. Supermarine Seagull V (Walrus) amphibian aircraft of No. 5 (Fleet Cooperation) Squadron RAAF lined up for inspection on the tarmac in front of the Squadron's hangar at RAAF Base Richmond. Note the squadron pilots in front of the aircraft with maintenance personnel standing under the wings of the aircraft. Aircraft serial numbers A2-2 and A2-5 are at the far end of the line.

Buckingham Palace, London. C. 1943-06. Group portrait taken outside Buckingham Palace after the Queen's Investiture. Left to right 408076 Flight Sergeant T. D. Simpson DFM of Hobart, Tas; 406248 Pilot Officer C. L. Howard DFC of Perth, WA; 407729 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) D. J. Shannon DSO DFC of Bridgewater, SA; Wing Commander G. P. Gibson VC DSO and Bar DFC and Bar, RAF; 407074 Flt Lt R. C. Hay DFC and Bar of Malvern, SA; 402367 Flt Lt J. F. Leggo DFC and Bar of Lake Macquarie, NSW; Flt Lt H. B. Martin DSO DFC of Sydney, NSW, RAF; 407380 Pilot Officer F. M. Spafford DFC DFM of Wayville, SA. They were all decorated for the part they had played in the famous raid on the German dams, led by the Commanding Officer Wing Commander Gibson who was awarded the VC.

SX4193 Private SMART, Gilby Roy; 2nd/27th Battalion

Two soldiers from the 15th MG Coy posing for a photograph with a Vickers Machine gun. Its key features are the heavy tripod on which it mounted, the right hand belt feed of ammunition in canvas belts, and the cylindrical jacket over the barrel which is filled with water to aid cooling of the barrel. This facilitated the very high rates of sustained fire this gun was renowned for.

RAAF WW2 Europe medal set - L-R 1939-45 Star (6 months O/S service) , Aircrew Europe Star (operational service over NW Europe up to D Day 5 6 June 1944), Defence Medal (service in a defended area), British War Medal 39-45, Australian War Service Model 39-45.

A Short Sunderland Mk.III (EK573/P) of No. 10 Squadron RAAF on the water after alighting to rescue 3 survivors from a Vickers Wellington of No. 172 Squadron RAF, clinging to a one-man dinghy (seen at right) after being shot down in the Bay of Biscay while attacking a German submarine on 26 August 1944. Although it was forbidden for flying boats to alight on the open sea in rescue attempts, the pilot of the Sunderland, Flight Lieutenant W.B. Tilley, decided the survivors could wait no longer for surface craft to arrive, and touched down to pick them up for a safe return to Mount Batten, Devon (UK). A fourth member of the Wellington crew, Flying Officer R.B. Gray RCAF, refused to risk the lives of the other survivors by overloading the dinghy, although he was seriously injured. He succumbed during their fifteen-hour ordeal at sea and was awarded a posthumous George Cross. The pilot of the Sunderland of No. 10 Squadron RAAF who made the hazardous sea landing and take-off was Flight Lieutenant William Boris Tilley DFC of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia).

We are so Proud of Clive R.I.P.a light horseman who died in the trenches with a sniper bullet to the heart, trying to save one of his platoon mates....never to return home to his Family. Died for Freedom and Honour.

920 Francis Michael LOCK AFC RH#23

CALLANDER Arthur Stanley 3047 Pte 27th Bn

Pilot Officer Clarence Charles Bennett

Photographed during WW2 service

"Sonny" Wright, Frank's childhood mate enlisted as under age and served through WW2 in all theatres and then deployed to Japan as part of the BCOF, where he was accidentally killed in a motor vehicle accident in 1946. He was initially interred under the name C.R. O'Neil - the name of Frank's uncle whose driver's licence SOnny used as ID to enlist. His headstone has since been corrected. He is buried in Yokohama Military Cemetery.

A map depicting the disposition of forces at 4 Oct 1917, immediately prior to the commencement of the Battle of Broodseinde Ridge

Group portrait of five Australian Soldiers from the 5th Divisional Ammunition Column. Left to right, back row: 3495A Gunner (Gnr) Harold Constantine; 1513 Gnr Allen Wylie Scott; Probably 2222 Driver James Thomas Sheehan. Front row: Gnr H Williams; 2603 Gnr Arthur Rayworth Davison, later killed on 20 August 1917.

Albert James DUNSTER's brief active service record

The 460 Squadron Badge and motto "Strike and Return"

G for George a tribute to all RAAF Aircrew who flew with RAF Bomber Command

Cecil Ronald "Ron" Weinert, Korea

RH Panel Image #3 - Private Robert John Penny

87 Squadron Photo Reconnaissance DH 98 Mosquitos

MID Medal Set: British War Medal, Victory Medal (with oak leaf symbolising Mentioned In Dispatches)

109 AGH, Alice Springs, marquee and tented section

Flying Officer Vic Hodgkinson

5110 PTE John HIRD

Studio portrait of 2304 Private (Pte) Albert Dunster, 39th Battalion. A farmer prior to enlisting on 29 June 1916, Pte Dunster embarked for overseas service in October 1916. He was wounded on 30 April 1917 and died later that day. Pte Dunster is buried at Trois Arbres cemetery, Steernwerck, France.

3491 Private John Stanley SGELTON 9 LHR RH#21

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.

Peter Masters during the recording of his oral history for the series 'Australians at War' . He also featured in the video documentary '44 Days' narrated by Geoffrey Robertson QC, released in 1992, links to which are contained in the 75 Squadron history.

“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.

This image is of a soldier from the 10th battalion at Mena Camp, Egypt playing with a kangaroo, which was the regimental mascot. The soldiers in the background are from the 9th and 10th Battalions, and they are looking towards the pyramids.

845, Jack Reginald KENYON, of Prospect SA

Amiens cathedral from the canal precinct

1763 Trooper Joseph Wren

Military Medal

WW1 post 31 Dec 1915 embarkation. L-R Military Medal British War Medal, Victory Medal,

Photograph of PTE 68 Wesley Paul Choat MM in Britain in 1918 after escaping. AWM image: P03236.156.

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

PORTRAIT OF 1388 CORPORAL WALTER HENRY FRAME (MM AND BAR), 21ST FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE (SEATED, LEFT) WITH HIS BROTHER GEORGE FRAME, MEMBER OF A BRITISH ARTILLERY UNIT.