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Len Beadell in a signature pose
A post card sent by Oscar to his older sister Olga then resident on the far West Coast of South Australia
Gerald 'Geoff' Cramer, in front of a Canberra Bomber of No.2 Squadron
Mericourt-L'Abbe Communal Cemetery Extension

Mericourt-L'Abbe Communal Cemetery Extension
Billy Kent Purdy as a trainee pilot at the controls
Sister Ellen McCarthy, with camel, WWI in Egypt.
World War One Roll of Honour
A post card sent by Oscar to his older sister Olga then resident on the far West Coast of South Australia
Stern view of Goulburn before the launching ceremony. (AWM 004282)
Bristol Beauforts at No. 1 Operational Training Unit, Bairnsdale, Victoria. Nearer camera: A9-102, 262097, Flying Officer Peter John Gibbes, DFC; A9-66, 377, Squadron Leader Cyril Clarence Williams.

Bristol Beauforts at No. 1 Operational Training Unit, Bairnsdale, Victoria. Nearer camera: A9-102, 262097, Flying Officer Peter John Gibbes, DFC; A9-66, 377, Squadron Leader Cyril Clarence Williams.
Newspaper CLippings recording the 1938 bout, the first of three in succession won by PC Tom Tobin

Newspaper CLippings recording the 1938 bout, the first of three in succession won by PC Tom Tobin
Lieutenant Colonel Olive Ada KESTEL, RRC, Australian Army Nursing Service. A portrait painted by one of her soldiers. In this portrait she is wearing the ribbon of the Royal Red Cross and the Africa Service. Her other war medals had yet to be issued.
The last group along Alexandra Avenue numbered 31-50
On the right, 3RAR soldiers, rugged up against the severe cold, processing North Korean soldiers, captured when 3RAR crossed the Taeryong River near Kujin in late October 1950. Korea, 1950. Lined up in two rows behind a stack of captured weapons, a group of North Korean prisoners-of-war (POWs) stands on a sandy riverbank, as they are watched by three members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), (right), who are wearing greatcoats and hoods as protection against the cold. The North Koreans surrendered when the Australians crossed the Taeryong River during their northward advance.
A recently published biographical profile of Edward Bagot by author Vincent Burke, based on the letters of Edward Burke to family members beginning in 1936 while he was a student at school. Less about the technicalities of what he was engaged in and more about his observations and reflections on what was going on around him. Life in Adelaide pre WW2. A very unusual take on one man's war - as written by him.
ALEY, SYRIA. 1941-12-31. LIEUTENANT COLONEL K.A. WILLS MC, OF 1ST AUSTRALIAN CORPS WHO WAS MADE AN OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
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.

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.
Colonel Stanley Price Weir surveys the battlefield from a fire trench at Gallipoli, not long before he was evacuated with enteric fever.
Photo on Latvian passport, 1927, Latvian State Historical Archives
Studio portrait of B3/58 Vaughan Murray Griffin, who was appointed as an official Australian war artist in the Middle East and later in Malaya. He became a prisoner of war of the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942 and was interned at Changi prison for the duration of the war. Many of Griffins art works are held at the Australian War Memorial.
The plaque listing the first block of names heading west from the Statue, numbered 1-8 8 PTE W. G. ROBERTSON 7 SGT L. H. SANDO 6 PTE C. J. RICE NORTH 5 PTE U. M. KEELY 4 L.CPL J. S. DEANE 3 FARRIER A. KEELY 2 SGT H. E. CLARK 1 SGT A. C. HUNTER
A TUBE BEING PUSHED DOWN INTO THE TRACHEA OF A PATIENT BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF AN OPERATION AT THE DENTAL SECTION, 105 CASUALTY CLEARING STATION. THE OPERATION WAS CONDUCTED BY CAPT T.H. THOMSON (1).

A TUBE BEING PUSHED DOWN INTO THE TRACHEA OF A PATIENT BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF AN OPERATION AT THE DENTAL SECTION, 105 CASUALTY CLEARING STATION. THE OPERATION WAS CONDUCTED BY CAPT T.H. THOMSON (1).
Oscar Baumann's newly installed headstone following the identification of his remains, and reinterment at Pheasant Wood Cemetery, announced 24 April 2023, unveiled 19 July 2023
David Turnbull's Scouting Star of Gallantry award
Members of No. 467 Squadron, RAAF, meet the Duke of Gloucester during his visit to RAF Station Waddington, Lincolnshire, England. From left to right: 21977 Wing Commander William Lloyd Brill DSO DFC and Bar, Squadron Commander, of Grong Grong, NSW; His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester; 425278 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Roland Reginald Cowan, of Caloundra,NSW; 422779 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Andrew Leslie West, of Sydney, NSW; 426377 Flt Sgt Paul Francis O'Connell, shaking hands, of Toowoomba, Qld; Sergeant Harry Kitchener Feltham, RAF; 423639 Flt Sgt Herbert Kenith Brown, of Werribee, Vic. Flt Lt Cowan, aged 25, Flt Sgt West, aged 21, Flt Sgt O'Connell, aged 23, Sgt Feltham, Flt Sgt Brown, aged 21, with Sgt Jack Sheffield, RAF, and 429503 Flt Sgt Arthur Albert Summers, were the crew of Lancaster ND 729 radio call sign PO-L. On the night of 24 June 1944, ND 729 left RAF Waddington to bomb flying bomb launch sites at Prouville, France. The aircraft was hit by flak and broke up over Mareuil-Caubert, France. All seven were killed.
World War Two Roll of Honour
Herbert Kernot's ID discs

Herbert Kernot's ID discs
Informal outdoor portrait of Sapper (Spr) Darren "Smithy" Smith and Spr Jacob "Snowy" Moerland, 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment with the Explosive Detection Dog (EDD) Herbie. Sappers Smith and Moerland, along with Herbie, were killed by an IED on 7 June 2010. Taken - Afghanistan: Uruzgan Province, Patrol Base Wali
A detailed map of the Torbruk battlespace, with notes by Australian correspondent Chester Willmott
49 Squadron crewmates at the wedding of Sergeant James Arthur Gerald Browne and Marjorie Ayers (arm in arm) at the Registry Office Edmonton Middlesex London on 7 December 1942. The airman are left to right, Flying Officer Frank Ridley (aged 21 on 31 January 1943); Sergeant James Arthur Gerald Browne (aged 25 on 31 January 1943); Flight Sergeant Llewellyn Grey (26 on 31 January 1943) and Flight Sergeant Roy Gould (who completed his tour of operations with 49 Sqn at end of October 1942 and lived well into his 90s dying in 2011). The women other than Marjorie Ayers are unidentified. All of the men with the exception of Roy Gould who had left the unit, were killed on 31 January 1943, when their aircraft crashed on approach to RAF Fiskerton returning from a raid. Only the mid-upper gunner survived the crash.
Phillip Edward CAWTHORNE DFC, captain of Lancaster PB 949 lost 4 April 1945
Billy Kent Purdy as a trainee pilot at the controls
Midshipman Waller
Vendetta's Ship's Bell
HMAS Murchison, Operation Han
The Club's War Memorial installed on Remembrance Day 2025
Billy Kent PURDY in 2014 aged 91 still flying his Tiger Moth
The second attack at Dernancourt on 5 April 1918

The second attack at Dernancourt on 5 April 1918
Part of an anti-shipping strike wing of Coastal Command, No. 455 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, became highly skilled in this role in sweeps along the French, Belgium and Dutch coasts. In October 1944 it was assigned full-time to strikes against shipping in Norwegian waters. At the stage the Germans were transferring troops and equipment form the occupied countries to help counter the grave situations which had developed elsewhere in Europe. The objective of the anti-shipping squadrons in the region was to halt such traffic. In the Norwegian fiords flying was particularly hazardous. Ships were able to anchor almost at the foot of towering cliffs and attack was possible from one direction only, enabling concentration of gun-fire upon the attackers. In the open sea several Beaufighter aircraft could divide the attention of shipboune gunners, and attack ships with rocket and cannon simultaneously. The painting shows No. 455 Squadron operating in such a situation, North Sea.
Charles Angas Willcox when a Member of the Adelaide Rowing Club

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