Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Map depicting the Battle for Greece, and key German axes of advance and key battles.

Edmund Newman LAMB, 1915

A No. 18 Squadron B-25 after a forced landing when a main undercarriage leg collapsed.

Discharge Certificate (original) Edward Hewlett, 43 Bn AIF - obverse

A map illustrating the orientation of forces at Fromelles. "Western Front 1916-17 The Price of Honour" Laffin Time Life Books 1987

Richmond Baker's Pilots Course at Queen's College, Oxford University probably in April 1918. Bert Packer is second from the left front row and two places further right is Thomas Richmond Charles Baker who went on to become an Ace with No. 4 Squadron. Students all wear white hat bands. The Supervising staff are the three men centre front of the image. Men wearing peaked caps are already commissioned officer students whereas those in 'fore and aft' caps are Other Rank trainees who would be commissioned on graduation.

L-R British War Medal and Victory Medal

Robert Stanley PILLAR's headstone Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney

Eric Slade approximate age 19 Farmer and Loving Husband and Father

Close up study of this superbly detailed statue. Aficionados who look closely enough (at the actual statue) may detect an intriguing anomaly

Outdoor portrait of 2600 Corporal George Smith Holliday, C Company, 35th Battalion, at the memorial erected near Ash Crater to members of the 35th Battalion who fell in the battle of Messines on 7 June 1917. A memorial similar to this one, less the names, was erected by the Battalion Pioneers near Gooseberry Farm, just west of Messines, in June 1917, but was destroyed by enemy shellfire. Listed on the memorial are: Lieutenant (Lt) Thomas Henry Denton-Clark; Lt Burton Elliott Chapman; Lt Robert Donaldson Perrau; 359 Pte Randolph Adamson; 2043 Pte Paul Stanislaus Baxter; 2531 Pte Horace Brenton; 726 Pte George Leslie Bullock; 1883 Pte Henry Gilbert Burke; 2032 Pte Edward John Bellchambers; 2534 Pte John Albert Barker; 1090 Pte Frederick Charles Cantelo; 1105 Pte Robert Convery; 42 Pte Albert Henry Cooper; 2047 Pte Roy Collins; 1792 Pte Patrick Cusack; 2293 Pte Frederick John Carter; 1111 Pte Samuel Jackson Dale; 2304 Pte William James Davis; 1481 Pte Evan Archibald Davies; 421 Pte Walter John Edmonds; 2066 Pte Wentworth Lincoln East; 1945A Pte Arthur Floate; 772 Pte Fredrick Fredrickson; 1132 Pte James Gray; 1835A Pte Cyril James Glenn; 93 Pte Clarence Claude Hobden; 797 Pte Alexander Richard Hincks; 1486 Pte Cecil William Hincks; 2079 Pte Edmund Reid Hellyer; 130 Pte David Johnstone;1820 Pte Stanley Beaumont Justelius; 131 Pte Thomas Kane; 1489 Pte Edwin Kinsmore; 2342 Pte Alfred Thomas King; 2176 Pte James William Lowe; 495 Corporal Alfred Moore; 2430 Pte Leslie Moxey; 1838 Arthur Archibald McCook; 504 Pte George McLean; 2635 Pte Alexander McFarlane; 1910 Pte Gilbert Albert Arthur Norris; 2376 Pte Patrick Thomas Pickard; 877 Pte Harry Kelvin Parker; 879 Pte Joseph Peacock; 199 Pte Thomas Read; 1850 Pte Stephen Ryan; 891 Pte George Robertson; 192 Pte Samuel Reid; 1977 Pte Patrick Ryan; 1697 Pte William Symington; 202 Pte Frederick Harold Charles Smith; 2654 Pte Sidney Solman; 564 Pte Harry Shears; 2403 Pte George Grainger Stevenson; 2016 Pte Oswald David Westrup;2899 Pte Robert Charles Clyde Worland; 1270 Pte Mark Elms Waters; 585 Pte William John Williams; 2666 Pte Julian Schaffer Weber; 396 Pte Reginald Thomas Cowley; 1863 Pte Clarence Wiseman; 2368 Pte Orlando Thomas Lockyer O'Brien; 386 Pte John Alexander Campbell; 2645 Pte William Alexander Nichol; 398 Pte James Joseph Colgate; 2621 Pte James Lee; and 1898A Pte James Aaron Dodd.

Military Cross 1914/15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal

The sinking of troopship SS 'Ballarat' which took place on 25 April 1917 in the English Channel. A submarine torpedoed the 'Ballarat', which was carrying Australian troops from Melbourne to England. Efforts made to tow the ship to shallow water failed and she sank off The Lizard the following morning. No lives were lost of the 1752 souls on board.

Three B24 Heavy Bombers of 7 OTU on a training flight in southern NSW in 1944/45

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