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12228 Harold Lancelot KENYON

A Halifax of 158 Squadron with its aircrew astride the fuselage and wings

Service graves in the Communal Cemetery section

5110 PTE John HIRD

5111 Pte Thomas HIRD

MILLETT, Reginald Wellington

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

The family grave of the Carman family; Their three sons Clement Roland and David were all lost in fighting during WW1 in 1916,1917 and 1918. The family tomb bears the three "Dead Men's Pennies" - bronze plaques awarded to the families of the Fallen. They were intended for use in just this way - as memorials to family sacrifice .

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)

No. 76 Swuadorn - BCOF Japan 1947 BOFU, JAPAN. 1947-07-15. PILOTS FROM 76 SQUADRON, 81ST FIGHTER WING, RAAF, GET A FINAL BRIEFING NEAR THEIR AIRCRAFT FROM THEIR FLIGHT LEADER FOR THEIR DAYS DUTY OVER THE BCOF AREA. SHOWN: 50971 WARRANT OFFICER N. J. BAX OF BALRANALD, NSW; WARRANT OFFICER V. G. BARKELL OF CONCORD, NSW; 115515 WARRANT OFFICER J. C. SAMPSON OF WARRAMBOO, SA; WARRANT OFFICER S. W. WILLIAMSON OF ST KILDA, VIC; 418588 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT D. V. TERRY OF ELWOOD, VIC, FLIGHT LEADER.

A 25 pounder 'Short' pack howitzer being towed by a Willys jeep. Uncharacteristically, this gun is fitted with a ballistic shield which was generally not fitted on operations.

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

Private Leslie Robert Templeman

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.

3294 PTE Leslie DOWDELL RH#11

935 Private Frank Oliver SCUTT 43rd Battalion RH#15

Cecil Ronald "Ron" Weinert, Korea

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

7024 Gordon Alexander LAING RH#24

3639 Audley Esmond WEBSTER RH#25

Captain Ernest Albert WARREN, 27th Battalion RH#28

313 Trooper James Morell McKenzie KAY RH#27

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

RAF STATION LEUCHARS, SCOTLAND. 1943-06-04. MEMBERS OF THE GROUND STAFF OF HAMPDEN TORPEDO-BOMBER NO. 455 SQUADRON RAAF OF COASTAL COMMAND. ON TOP OF THE AIRCRAFT, STANDING, LEFT TO RIGHT: 6728 CORPORAL (CPL) A. E. RYAN, BRISBANE, QLD; 10165 CPL W. C. KENNAUGH, NORTHCOTE, VIC; 17741 LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN (LAC) R. A. LOFTUS, PERTH, WA; 15273 CPL S. F. YOUNG, HABERFIELD, NSW; 15009 LAC V. MERCHANT, NEWCASTLE, NSW; 15001 LAC N. H. GARBUTT, DUNDEE, SCOTLAND; 33236 AIRCRAFTMAN 1 (AC1) E. H. LUKES, NORTH SYDNEY, NSW; 6682 LAC F. C. B. LAGETTIE, CABRAMATTA, NSW; 22379 LAC J. E. SCHATZ, GREENSLOPES, QLD; 10200 SERGEANT (SGT) L. D. PATIENCE, MELBOURNE, VIC; 27063 CPL H. R. TURNER, WEST TANKS, SA; 33255 AC1 E. C. HENRY, WAVERLY, NSW; 24056 LAC R. M. WARNER, YUBBA, NSW; 24100 LAC W. J. WALKER, BURWOOD, VIC. SITTING: 6808 CPL R. E. GARDE, UNDERCLIFFE, NSW; 12110 SGT C. ETCHELLS, ASHFIELD, NSW. STANDING, BACK: 10279 LAC L. L. WALLER, PENHURST, VIC; 968331 LAC N. HIBBLE, NEWCASTLE, RAF; 8761 LAC J. J. GARDNER, NOTTINGHAM, RAF; 6849 LAC F. J. PRITCHARD, CARLTON, NSW. STANDING, FRONT: 6585 LAC G. L. DOWNER, BRISBANE, QLD; 15013 LAC D. A. MATHEWSON, TOTTENHAM, NSW; 15979 LAC H. T. GROENNOU, LEICHHARDT, NSW; 10275 LAC S. W. POPE, ST KILDA, VIC; 14527 CPL S. V. WEATHERBY, NORTH BONDI, NSW; 9200 SGT F. R. MARCH, ADELAIDE, SA; 10162 CPL J. A. WILLIAMS, KINGSWOOD, VIC; 6035 FLIGHT SERGEANT H. ORR, BRISBANE, QLD; 2823 FLYING OFFICER WILSON, BRISBANE, QLD; 1796131 AIRCRAFTMAN W. VALENTINE, BONNY BRIDGE, SCOTLAND, RAF; 1400829 AC1 K. S. COLLIVER, BRISTOL, RAF; 13245 LAC J. LEFOE, MELBOURNE, VIC; 20187 CPL N. R. SIVYER, EAST MOREE, NSW; 1865049 AC2 D. V. FISHER, ESSEX, RAF; 10691 SGT F. J. SHAW, MELBOURNE, VIC; 21465 LAC W. A. M. FORBES, NEWCASTLE, NSW.

Lauri Sheard's grave alongside his colleagues at Bomana War Cemetery Port Moresby Papua New Guinea.

Arthur Harold Boettcher - Lancaster LM-372

Japanese pilots of the Japanese Navy Tainan Air Group assigned to New Guinea from February 1942 - Saburo Sakai seated middle row second from left - one of the top Japanese Ace of the war who in 1997 lobbied the Australian Government to recognise Warren Cowan's actions on 1942. Standing top row left is PO1/c Hiroyoshi Nishizawa who went on to become the top Japanese Ace. He was killed as a passenger in a transport aircraft over the Philippines in 1944. Sakai survived the war having lost an eye over Guadalcanal. He passed away in 2000.

Standing: Capt P Samson, Lieut Richard Harry Sampson, Q R Serg't Harry Percy Sampson. Sitting: RSM Harry Wills Sampson, Capt. Richard Sampson, RQM Serg't Frederick Sampson.

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

Spr John Frederick BOARDMAN 6393

HMAS Canberra running underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge, under construction in this 1930 photograph

CALLANDER Arthur Stanley 3047 Pte 27th Bn

Sappers work on dugout near Hooge Crater, near Ypres, September 1917

Unidentified solder entering tunnel under Hill 60, near Ypres

Typical scene, Menin Road (near Ypres) near where Sapper CSA Campbell was killed, 18 September 1917

Sister M Hall, Moonee Ponds Baby Health Centre, 1950

Commemorative_Plaque

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

Thomas Harvey's ID disc - an artefact of the

No 156 Squadron May 1943 at RAF Warboys, CO WCDR Rivett-Carnac

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