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Denton.pdf
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Anzac_Spirit_Essay_-_Cleve_James_Scott.pdf
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140129_Tom_Tobin_Memoire.pdf
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Mericourt-L'Abbe Communal Cemetery Extension
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RHS Panel of the St Peters Memorial
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No. 467 Squadron's 'S for Sugar' being bombed up at Waddington Yorkshire. This redoubtable airframe survived the war having completed 132 missions. It is reserved in the RAF Museum at Hendon near London.
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A Matilda Tank several of which payed a crucial role at Slater's Knoll
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SW Pacific Area of Operations - Paua New Guinea Bougainville and the Solomon Islands
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Showing Slater's Knoll a week after the Japanese attacked on the morning of 5 April 1945. The front had now been pushed forward and life was quiet again on Slater's Knoll; the 25th Australian Infantry Battalion had just vacated the position and it was now occupied by troops of 'B' Company, 58/59 Australian Infantry Battalion. This work was painted with the simple object of showing life in a dug-in forward position, and gives an idea of many other sites where the infantry had been dug in for some time. The latrine with a 4-gallon oil drum serving as a seat, would be out in the open, away from the tents on the right, and food would be carried in dixies from the cook house, further back, and served to the men on the position. In the tents were two bunks made by using the canvas of the issued stretchers, supported by saplings. The legs of the stretchers were then stored in the Left Out of Battle (LOB) area, as they would be too bulky to carry. Pictured, is a Bren gun pit in the immediate left foreground where a lad is shown cleaning his weapon. There is a steep bank on the left of the picture, making a natural defence. This is actually at the rear of the site. As the Japanese attempted to take the knoll by force of numbers they approached up the gently sloping side to the right, beyond the limit of the painting. The Bren gun in the pit in the foreground supplied most effective cross fire. On the right can be seen part of a large bomb crater, made during the Japanese occupancy, and the uprooted trees cutting diagonally across the picture were evidently thrown up when the crater was made.
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A Bristol Beaufort a light bomber in which Jack Reed flew
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Jack Reed (R) and mates somewhere in northern Australia
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3697 PTE Patrick Weir 3rd Pioneer Battalion
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Auction notes 25th September 2008 DNW website 1914-15 Star (O.N.2263 Ord. Sea.); British War and Victory Medals (A.B., R.A.N.); War and Australia Service Medals (2263 R. F. Grimley); Royal Australian Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension, with Second Award bar (2263 Leading Seaman, R.A.N.); H.M.A.S. Sydney - S.M.S. Emden Medal, 9 November 1914, silver Mexican Dollar dated 1895 , mounted by W. Kerr, Sydney, unnamed; Western Australia, Sydney - Emden Commemorative Medal, reverse inscribed (part engraved) ‘Presented by the People of Western Australia to R. F. Grimley, Boy 1 Class’, mounted for display, edge bruising, first three worn; others very fine (8) £1800-2200
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The battered hulk of the SMS Emden after it was beached on North Keeling Island
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Far and away: The young Private Bill Cassidy spent five of the eight years of his marriage away at war.
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Far and away: The young Private Bill Cassidy spent five of the eight years of his marriage away at war.
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This aircraft, restored to non-flying status and formerly located at the Parafield Fighting Jets Museum in South Australia is a Bell P39 Airacobra of 82 Squadron (although it is wearing 24 Squadron codes - part of a flight detached to 82 Squadron) as it was when it was written off in a forced landing near Bulli in NSW in June 1943. The aircraft has sine been sold to aviation interests in Russia, where Airacobras served with great distinction in WW2. Airacobras were operated in limited numbers (22 in all) by the RAAF as a stop-gap in defence of cities on the eastern seaboard. Some are believed to have been used as training aircraft at Mount Gambier in SA. The Airacobra had some unique features which are shown in this image via open hatches. Most notable at first glance, it had a tricycle undercarriage, the engine was centre mounted, behind the pilot, driving a transmission shaft between the pilots feet to the propellor. This gave a lot of room up front for a very heavy nose armament comprising 1 x 20mm cannon (a 37mm cannon in some variants) firing through the propeller hub and two .50 calibre guns in the nose and one in each wing. While not highly regarded in the Pacific theatre, the most prolific user was the Soviet airforce who were provided large numbers under the Lend Lease Agreements. The Russians loved them, particularly as tank attack aircraft. They were replaced in Australian service by the ubiquitous Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk.
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"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Ronald Custance, RAAF, 1944-1945.
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"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Anthony Cameron, Navy, 1941-1946.
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"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Ernst Grunert, Ran,1940-1945.
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"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Nicholas McGovern, Army, 1942-1945.
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"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Alexander James Macbeth, Army, 1942-1945.
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Headstone of William Atkinson 4655 at Cheltenham Memorial Park, Victoria.
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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.
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9.2 inch Howitzers of the 55th Siege Battery in action near Pozieres, late summer 1916
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Charles Wilfred Hart
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AWM caption : Fenton, NT. 1945-03. An informal group portrait of a crew of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft of No. 21 Squadron RAAF, standing beside their aircraft. Left to right: Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) P. Rousseau of Darling Point, NSW Flt Sgt D. W. Johnston of Kogarah, NSW Flying Officer (FO) H. A. Seymour of Coogee, NSW Sergeant (Sgt) F. A. Dean of Brighton, Vic Flt Sgt W. C. Randall of North Sydney FO C. L. Henry of Ivanhoe, Vic Pilot Officer R. W. Brooks of Coogee, NSW Flt Sgt R. W. McLeod of Northcote, Vic Flt Sgt W. H. Storey of Bexley, NSW Sgt R. H. Brown of Allora, Qld Flight Lieutenant R. W. Court of Collaroy, NSW
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Dave at his home, with friend, Barry Spicer, who executed the painting they are standing by "Squadron Leader David Leicester's Lancaster Returning Home in Daylight"
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Wellington GR.XII 221 Sqn RAF over Greece 1945
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846 Private Roy Stephen KENYON, MM
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Group portrait of No. 4 Initial Training School, RAAF Course No. 22, A Squadron, Flight 13. Pugh is second from the left in the centre row.
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FLGOFF Kenneth BENNETT 463 Squadron
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Most of the crew of Lancaster LL847 JO-D of 463 Squadron. Sgt Henry Fowler RAF far left,P/OFF Robert Byrnes RAAF, FLGOFF Kenneth Bennett 3rd from left (pilot). three remaining men not yet identified. Missing from this group is James OGILVIE RAAF who is believed to have flown as a trainee second pilot on the night the aircraft was lost. From ADF Serials site 463 Sqn. 15/03/44 to 17/12/44, JO-D. ORBS record 94 missions. First flown by RAAF Pilot F/O J H Dechastel & crew who completed a tour of 32 missions 30 of them in LL847. Also RAAF Pilot F/O K P Brady & crew completed a tour of 30 missions 28 of them in LL847. The last mission on 17/18-Dec-1944 was flown by Pilot K E H Bennett RAAF, 2nd Pilot F/O J H Ogilvie RAAF, F/Engineer F/S R G Nuttall RAF, Nav F/S S Easton RAF, B/Aimer F/S T N Watson RAF, Wireless Op F/S R W Byrnes RAAF, MU Gunner Sgt G A C Frizzell RAF, Rear Gunner Sgt H Fowler RAAF. Brady's gunners shot down an ME109 on 28-Jul-1944 & the rear gunner shot down a Donier 217 on 29/30 Aug-1944. Bennett's gunners shot down a JU88 on the 6/7-Dec-1944 while it was attacking another Lancaster.
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Lieutenant Gladys Hughes, a survivor of the Vyner Brooke sinking, captured as a PoW died just three months from war's end in May 1945 from the effects of disease ill treatment and mal-nourishment.
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Rosetta Joan Wight
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NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX76279 Sister Janet Kerr, 2/13th Australian General Hospital, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). She was one of sixty five Australian nurses and over 250 civilian men, women and children evacuated on the Vyner Brooke from Singapore, three days before the fall of Malaya. The Vyner Brooke was bombed by Japanese aircraft and sunk in Banka Strait on 14 February 1942. Of the sixty five nurses on board, twelve were lost as sea and thirty two survived the sinking and were captured as Prisoners of War (POWs) of which eight later died during captivity. Sister Kerr, aged 31, was one of the remaining twenty two nurses who also survived the sinking and were washed ashore on Radji Beach, Banka Island, where they surrendered to the Japanese, along with twenty five British soldiers. On 16 February 1942 the group was massacred, the soldiers were bayoneted and the nurses were ordered to march into the sea where they were shot. Only Sister Vivian Bullwinkel and a British soldier survived the massacre. Both were taken POW, but only Sister Bullwinkel survived the war. Sister Kerr was the daughter of Ida Maud Kerr of Woodstock, NSW. (Photograph copied from original photograph attached to attestation form, lent by Central Army Records Office.)
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R135 ADDEMS Harold Basil 2249 Trooper
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R237 ADDEMS Percival Edward 2333
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RAAF SGT David Leicester
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Frank Mouritz 2018
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A memorial erected to the crew of Lancaster LL874 JO-D of No. 463 Squadron RAAF which crashed nearby on the night of 17/18 December 1944 with the loss of all crew
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Ground crew from 451 and 452 Squadrons at RAF Matlaske May 1945
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Painting by Will Longstaff depicting the night counter-attack o Villers Brettoneux that recaptured the town and checked the German advance on Amiens, 24/5 April 1918.
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A map illustrating the general line of attack of the 15th (top) and 13th (lower) Brigades, encircling the town of Villers Bretonneux.
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The second attack at Dernancourt on 5 April 1918
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Map illustrating the results of the major battles comprising Third Ypres; Menin Road 20 Sep 17, Polygon Wood 26 Sep 17, Broodseinde Ridge 4 Oct 17 and Passchendaele 12-24 Oct 17.
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4501 BALLARD, PTE H.E.32nd and 50th Battalions
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4501 Pte Herbert Edward Ballard
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