Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Surname: HUGHES; Given Names: Wlfred John Mann; Date of Birth: 29 April 1895; Date of Enlistment: 1 February 1915; Trade or Calling: University Student; Birth Location: Adelaide; Address prior to enlistment: Fourth Ave St Peters;

Australian soldiers at Messines in July 1917, standing in German trenches demolished by the mine blasts. E00554 AWM

Detail of Boer War Memorial. Ker's name is mis-spelled.

Slouch Hat memorial adjacent to the Bullecourt church. Steve Larkins collection

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

NORFOLK, ENGLAND. C. 1944-07. BEAUFIGHTER AIRCRAFT OF NO. 455 SQUADRON RAAF WITH COASTAL COMMAND, AT RAF STATION LANGHAM, READY FOR OPERATIONS AGAINST ENEMY CONVOYS. AWM UK1458

(L to R) Bede Francis Dowd and Robert Burley) at the end of the war. Bede lost an arm after being pinned under his horse and presumed dead in or near Egypt for some time. The photo must have been taken at the end of the war as in this photo he is missing an arm.

Forest-sur-Marque communal cemetery near Lille, France

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

John Leslie HOPPING of Caltowie

Bristol BeaufighterTF Mk X of No 455 Squadron RAAF line up on the runway at Dallachy, Scotland

William Wilson Smith and family

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

A 214 Squadron B-17 F Flying Fortress and its crew, after the Squadron was re-equipped and re-assigned to 100 Group flying in a bomber support role as airborne electronic warfare aircraft; an extremely hazardous task because the devices they used were 'active' and emitted radio frequency signals that would be located by the enemy.

Service graves in the Communal Cemetery section

MILLETT, Reginald Wellington

PTE S.G. Stafford 2nd Battalion KIA at Lone Pine

Pembroke Dock, Wales. C. 1942. Crew of aircraft "A for Apple" of No. 461 (Sunderland) Squadron RAAF based at an RAF Station. Back row, left to right: 405083 Sergeant (Sgt) A. Miller; 401562 Sgt R. Hattam; 411426 Pilot Officer H. I. Dent; 403129 Flight Lieutenant B. Buls; 5942 Sgt A. J. Taylor; 405206 Sgt E. B. Gallagher; 6241 Sgt R. Tucker. Front row: Four members of the RAF.

Plymouth, England. C. 1943. Portrait of Flight Lieutenant R. W. Marks of Norwood, SA, a Sunderland aircraft captain of No. 10 Squadron RAAF at RAF Station Mount Batten.

HMAS Bataan, a destroyer, off the Korean Peninsula. The destroyer is seen here engaged in receiving a jackstay transfer from the Royal Navy carrier HMS OCEAN. It is sufficiently clear to show the late Commander Warwick Gracegirdle, RAN - BATAAN 's Korean War CO - on the bridge. This photo is taken off Korea, and the destroyer in the background is HMS CONSORT. Photo: Photographer unknown, the image was published in 1986 for the RAN's 75th Anniversary celebrations. The image is held in the Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial, image ID 300378, listed copyright expired, public domain. It has also been posted on an InvisionFree ship modeller's blog. These are the AWM's descriptive notes that accompany the image: KOREA. ELEVATED PORT SIDE VIEW SHOWING DETAIL OF THE FORWARD PART OF THE DESTROYER HMAS BATAAN (EX-HMAS KURNAI) (D191) AS SHE RECEIVES PERSONNEL BY HIGHLINE FROM THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS OCEAN. NOTE FORWARD TWIN 4.7 INCH MK XII GUNS IN CP XIX MOUNTINGS, WITH THE BREECHES OF B MOUNTING PROMINENT AND THE 40 MM BOFORS AA GUN IN THE PORT BRIDGE WING. BEHIND THE BRIDGE ARE THE DIRECTOR CONTROL TOWER AND RANGEFINDER TOWER MK II WITH A TYPE 285 FIRE CONTROL RADAR MOUNTED UPON THE LATTER. NOTE ROPE STOWAGE IN THE BLAST SCREEN FORWARD OF B MOUNTING AND CARLEY FLOATS BY THE FORWARD SUPERSTRUCTURE WITH PADDLES NEATLY ARRAYED. THE SCREENING DESTROYER IN THE BACKGROUND IS HMS CONSORT. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

William Frayne's medal set: L-R 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Service number 18488 George Bentley Pegler, a staff member of the South Australian Harbors Board. George enlisted in the AIF on 26 October 1917 and served in France with the Australian Army Medical Corps. He returned to Australia in 1919. From 1923 to his death in 1950 he held the position of Harbourmaster at Cowell.

2048 CRAM William 43rd Battalion AIF RH#20

Cecil Ronald "Ron" Weinert, Korea

Captain Henry Samuel COPE MC, 43rd Battalion RH#16

1184 Private James Michael TYNER 3 Fd Amb RH#22

Heilly Station Cemetery

Studio portrait of 407713 Aircraftman (AC), later Sergeant (Sgt) No. 32 Squadron RAAF, James Alexander Herman, of Kilkenny, SA.

Warren Cowan's grave - alongside his comrades from Hudson A16-201 at Bomana War Cemetery

POK's crew taken in December 1943. This photo believed to have been contributed by George Litchfield's family. George LITCHFIELD (bomb aimer) front centre. L-R Believed to be SCOTT (W/Op), BOETTCHER (rear gunner), PATKIN (pilot), CHAMBERS (Flight engineer), (Navigator) . Absent is FSGT BLACKWELL the mid upper gunner The aircraft behind them is not the one in which they were lost on 1/2 January ('PO-K'). It is 'PO-M' a unit workhorse as evidenced by the 53 missions it had flown at this time (presumed to be late 1943). 'PO-M' features in two other images; AWM UK0463.jpg which 'captured' the aircraft at an earlier point in its career, on 31 August 1943 when it had completed 40 missions and had its designation changed from 'PO-U' to 'PO-M'. Another image on the 467 Squadron page features this aircraft at the same time - 31 August 1943 with its crew.

Etaples CWGC Cemetery - the largest in France. Most burials here had died of their wounds at various points along the casualty evacuation.

Private William Charles Addems

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JEH Butler's name on last shell fired from Anzac Cove, 12 December 1915

JEH Butler's name on last shell fired from Anzac Cove, 12 December 1915

JEH Butler's name on last shell fired from Anzac Cove, 12 December 1915

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3342 Private Harry Lincoln BROOKS of the 27th Battalion

The crew of Lancaster ME 851 'PO B' BackRow, L-R Sgt Edmund Goode RAFVR Flight Engineer, FSgt William Paul, FSgt David Paterson, FSgt Arthur Jenkins A/G, Front Row D Stevenson (not on the fatal flight), P/O Wilson Wright (Nav), FSgt James Ewen, FLt William Murphy RCAF

Lignieres de Touraine

L-R 1914/15 Star, British Empire War Medal, Victory Medal

WW1 - Commemorative Medallion, known colloquially as the "Dead Man's Penny", presented to families of the Fallen together with a scroll signed by King George V. Over one million minted.

Headstone of Private D S HAILES, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion WW2. This is a private grave in Salisbury Memorial Park

WW1 - A very rare medal set - a Military Cross AND a Military Medal, 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.

Western Front: (Belgium), Ypres Area, Locre. Group portrait of the officers and NCOs of the 24th Machine Gun Company. In the foreground are two Vickers machine guns on their tripods. Left to right, back row: 422C Corporal (Cpl) J. H. Parker 429B Cpl H. J. Heywood 425A Cpl G. B. Redford MM MSM 372 Cpl C. W. Lane 438 Cpl P. P. Murphy 427B Acting Cpl J. W. Biggs Middle row: 504 Cpl H. S. Chave 1928 Cpl H. W. Courtney 501B Sgt C. W. E. Morris 426D Transport Sergeant (Sgt) C. Sugg MM 422A Sgt C. C. McPhee 617 Company Sergeant Major (CSM) P. O'Brien 414D Sgt V. A. J. Deeker 460A Sgt F. P. Packer 292 Sgt J. R. Reeves 424 Sgt C. B. Popkin 428A Acting Cpl C. E. Reade Front row: Lieutenant (Lt) L. D. Sinclair Lt T. R. Jack MC Lt F. R. Watts Major F. B. Hinton MC Lt C. C. Dight Lt W. A. Shelley MM

Aircrew of No. 40 Squadron RAF don their flying equipment before boarding their Vicker Wellington B Mark X at Foggia Main, Italy, for the last night bombing operation undertaken by the type. Six Wellingtons accompanied a force of Consolidated Liberators making an attack on the marshalling yards at Treviso on the night of 13/14 March 1945. The crew are, (left to right): Sergeant R Turner of London, (tail Gunner) Flying Officer A Merrick of Birmingham, (navigator) Pilot Officer P Faulkner of Te-Kuiti, New Zealand, (bomb-aimer) Pilot Officer J Burnett of Kensington Park, South Australia, (pilot) Flight Sergeant Radcliffe of Liverpool, (wireless operator/air gunner) Date between circa 1943 and circa 1944

Distinguished Flying Medal Commendation

Brian Grasby's Basic Training Course at Mt Brecon, Victor Harbor, SOuth Australia

Four of the crew of Lancaster PO-G, L-R TBC, FOff William Felstead, FSGT Brian Grasby TBC, plus a colleague from another crew (TBC ).