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Des Sheen, Battle of Britain pilot and later Group Captain Royal Australian AIrforce
Researching Trove 2019

Researching_Trove_2019.pdf
ANZAC Spirit School Prize 2018 - Anne Donnell (Frampton)

2018_Ella_Frampton_Sister_Anne_Donnell.pdf
ANZAC Spirit School Prize 2018 - Ethel Sarah Davidson

2018_Holly_Wallman_Ethel_Sarah_Davidson.pdf
ANZAC Spirit School Prize 2018 - Raymond Charles Runga (Smith)

2018_Lucy_Smith_Raymond_Charles_Runga.pdf
Letters from Jasper to his sister Edna SCHWERDT

SKM_C36821011814050.pdf
ADF Serials

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a4c.htm
ANZAC Spirit School Prize 2018 - Thomas William Victor Richardson

2018_Oliver_Thomas_William_Victor_Richardson.pdf
Family funerary memorial at West Terrace Cemetery
A Boulton-Paul Defiant of 153 Squadron, one of a number thus equipped in the early part of the war. This aircraft is in daylight colour scheme clearly showing the aircraft's most distinctive feature - the four gun turret. While initially conferring a tactical advantage, its weight later proved an insurmountable handicap, but it found a role as a night fighter. Image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Mk1_Defiant.jpg

A Boulton-Paul Defiant of 153 Squadron in daylight colour scheme clearly showing the aircraft's most distinctive feature - the four gun turret. While initially conferring a tactical advantage, its weight later proved an insurmountable handicap. Image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Mk1_Defiant.jpg
Squadron Leader Wilbur Wackett, son of Australian aviation pioneer Sir Lawrence Wackett and his wife Letitia. Married to Peggy Wackett of Bellevue Hill Sydney.
An air gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gun turret of his Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, August 1940. He is wearing the GQ Parasuit, supplied exclusively to Defiant gunners, which incorporates a parachute harness and life-saving jacket within a smock overall. Four .303 Browning machine-guns are mounted in the Boulton Paul power-operated turret.
253 Squadron at Kenley 1st December 1940 L to R, sitting on wing: Sgt. RA Innes - P/O RC Graves – Sgt.A Edgley – Sgt. CB Brown – P/O DA Pennington – P/O DS Yapp L to R standing: F/O AF Eckford – Capt. de Scitivaux – F/O SR Peacock-Edwards – P/O G Marsland – F/Lt. RM Duke-Woolley – S/Ldr PR Walker – F/Lt. RF Watts – F/O Wall (Adjutant) – F/O Henry (Intelligence) L to R sitting: Sgt. AS Dredge – Sgt. PJ Moore – Sgt. EHC Kee
Video (Fr Lang Engl Subtitles) Pheasant Wood cemetery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJNMVdwT23I
Eric Abraham, Howard Pope, Charlie Mance Ted Smout at the internment of PTE Russell Bosisto, Courcelette Cemetery

Eric Abraham, Howard Pope, Charlie Mance Ted Smout at the internment of PTE Russell Bosisto, Courcelette Cemetery
Troops preparing to board trains outside Mitcham Camp, 1915.

Troops preparing to board trains outside Mitcham Camp, 1915.
Lt Col Dollman before the crowd gathered to farewell 27 Bn at Outer Harbour, 31 May 1915.

Lt Col Dollman before the crowd gathered to farewell 27 Bn at Outer Harbour, 31 May 1915.
Tarlee War memorial after it was rebuilt following its destruction in a motor vehicle accident. Re-opened by the Governor Admiral Kevin Scarce.
1882 Private Hugh Paul McAuliffe, originally of the 43rd Battalion, later transferred to the 36th Battalion in the 9th Brigade, KIA at Messines 9 June 1917. Born in Port Augusta, he is the only South Australian in an otherwise all New South Wales group of 9th Brigade soldiers in the Toronto Avenue Cemetery
Raymond Choat
Photograph of PTE 68 Wesley Paul Choat MM in Britain in 1918 after escaping from Germany.

Photograph of PTE 68 Wesley Paul Choat MM in Britain in 1918 after escaping. AWM image: P03236.156.
News clipping notifying Geoffrey Locke's death
Vincent Parker (l) with Douglas Bader, taken whilst prisoners at Colditz Castle
Eric Barton in WW2 after graduation as a pilot
Eric Barton after being selected to travel to France representing Australian Aircrew who flew in the liberation of France during WW2.
Vickers Wellington aircrews of No. 40 Squadron RAF being briefed at Foggia Main, Italy, before undertaking a bombing raid on the railway yards at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
A Bristol Blenheim light bomber of the type which equipped No. 226 Squadron until replaced by the Douglas Boston.
The 27th Battalion headed by some mounted officers including the CO LTCOL Walter Dollman, marches through Unley on 8th May 1915. At the end of the month they would embark for overseas service.
Guide to Remembrance Day 2020

Guide_to_Remembrance_Day.pdf
William Jury and his brother Gordon Jury Memorial Plaques Sir Donald Bradman Drive
Bill Sims Memorial Plaque Sir Donald Bradman Drive / Blackburn Ave Hilton
John Negus' Memorial Plaque Sir Donald Bradman Drive / South Rd Mile End
Al Bridle's DVA Nominal Roll Extract

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1246791&c=VIETNAM
This is a wonderful place for Richard Reynell’s memorial as it is located in one of the 27 locations in London with line-of-sight to St Paul’s Cathedral - meaning that nothing can be built between the location and St Paul’s that would block the view of the cathedral. I am sure that, as a Pilot, Richard would appreciate the location as it gives fantastic views over the city that he was so heroically defending.
Private Alan Bridle armed with an Owen Machine Carbine
DVA Nominal Roll

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=899791&c=WW2#R
View of Loxton from the Murray
Front, Center right. Foot near tin. Taken at Gallipoli Corporal (later Sergeant) FRANK MARTIN Service Number: 920 21st Bn. AIF Died of Wounds 25 August 1916 Buried at PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY, III. E. 33. France HE DIED TO DEFEND US A LIFE MADE BEAUTIFUL BY KINDLY DEEDS
"Beaufighter - The Forgotten Warhorse"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y30WJ-WJ66w
Armourers prepare to load 1,000-lb MC bombs into a No. 106 Squadron Lancaster at RAF Metheringham
Department of Veterans Affairs - Nominal Roll - Vietnam

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1270858&c=VIETNAM
British War Medal 1914-19
Michael Roach's Service Record

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8035184
Crash site of Bristol Freighter A
Local Tribute to Thomas MacNair Harvey in the Yass Courier 31 May 1917

By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a holier sod, Than e'er before man's feet have trod. By angel hands their knell is runs ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray' To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To weep o'er hero lying there.
McEwen_ Interview Transcript_Part 1 & 2

01_Transcript_-_Parts__01___02_Laurence_McEwen.pdf
McEwen_Interview Transcript_ Part 6

05_Transcript_-_Part_06_Laurence_McEwen.pdf
Phil Robin's football Career

Phil Robin was an all-round sportsman but an exceptional Australian Rules footballer. Phil made his league debut with Norwood in 1908, and was widely acknowledged as one of the finest wingmen in the game. An interstate representative on seven occasions, he played in South Australia's victorious 1911 carnival. That same year he received Norwood's best and fairest player award. Scrupulously fair, Robin delighted fans with his electrifying dashes down the wing, weaving and dodging his way past opponents. He was somewhat unfortunate to play during what was effectively a time of rebuilding at Norwood, but if anything this made the high quality of his football standout even more. Best & Fairest: 1911 South Australian Games: 7 Reserves Magarey Medal: 1907 NFC Games: 71; NFC Goals: 3 Debut: v South Adelaide (Norwood) 2nd May 1908 Finale: v North Adelaide (Norwood) 29th August 1914 In 1909 he was chosen to play for South Australia and held his position until enlisting with the AIF in 1914. For five years before enlisting he worked at the Bank of Adelaide as an accountant at the Murray Bridge branch. He was held in high regard at Murray Bridge, involved in the Tennis Club and regarded as 'one of their own'.
Nieppe, France. 18 April 1918. A Company Headquarters of the 7th Battalion, established in an old shooting box in the Forest of Neippe, in Northern France. A week earlier on the arrival of the 1st Division at Hazebrouck from the Somme, the Germans were already commencing to penetrate the Forest of Nieppe immediately east of the town. The 7th Battalion, with some of the 1st Pioneer Battalion and a company of machine gunners, pushed through Nieppe Forest, north of La Motte Chateau, and dug in on the north-eastern edge, in touch with the British rearguards. The Australian line, when completed, ran down from Strazeele to the Wood, where it linked up with the British Guards and the 29th Division. The Germans attacked in force on the 14th, but were repulsed; they renewed the attack in the evening, but failed. They never attacked again on these positions.

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