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NF462502 Gunner Norma Vesta MEAKIN's headstone at Rookwood War Cemetery

NX3689 Oliver Edward Ward known to his family as "Chubby" or "Uncle Chubb" - photo believed to have been taken in Egypt in 1941

463-squadron Lancaster 'S for Sugar' bombing-up at RAF Waddington. The large cylindrical bomb is an 8,000lb 'blockbuster' a larger version of the 4,000ln 'Cookie'.

A RAAF crew of a Lancaster Bomber from No 460 Squadron RAAF. Left to right: 408034 Flying Officer (FO) M. W. Carroll DFC of Ferntree Gully, Vic; Sergeant D. G. Champkin, RAF; 414807 Pilot Officer T. J. Lynch of Toowoomba, Qld (back); 404507 Squadron Leader E. G. D. Jarman DFC (Captain) of Yeppoon, Qld (centre front); 404467 Flying Officer (FO) H. R. Harrison of Lismore, NSW; 404503 FO F. G. Jackson DFC OF Lismore, NSW; 411227 FO R. L. Neal of Grenfell, NSW. This crew posed for a painting by war artist Stella Bowen. The crew was posted missing on 28 April 1944, and were later confirmed as lost in action. This and other photographs were used to complete the painting.

David Leicester DFC and Bar

Vietnam War Memorial, Adelaide, South Australia

1087 Private Thomas Carrican

WW2 Aircrew Europe post D-Day 1944 operations over Europe, Distinguished Service: L-R Distinguished Flying Cross, 1939/45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, British Commonwealth War Medal 1939/45 and the Australian War Service Medal.

Colonel William De Passey’s medals

Newspaper CLippings recording the 1938 bout, the first of three in succession won by PC Tom Tobin

A photograph taken during the first and largest Japanese air raid of the war on Darwin. The ammunition ship MV Neptuna explodes in the background after a direct hit. The corvette HMAS Deloraine rides at anchor in the foreground and remained unharmed.

HMAS Sydney (II) probably taken in Sydney Harbour

422424 Flying Officer Kenneth Roy Collier

Distinguished Flying Cross (original WW1 style ribbon), 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Pte Nash, of Victoria, Australia served with A Company. He died on 24 July 1916, aged 21, of wounds received in the Australian charge at Fleurbaix during 19 - 23 July 1916. In this action, which formed part of the Battle of the Somme, (Ed note: this is not technically correct - the Somme is much further south) Australian troops attempted to advance but were pinned down by German forces located behind them as well as in front of them. Cut off, they charged the German lines in an attempt to return to their original point of advance.

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/388509/MICHAELIS,%20FRANK%20MORITZ

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=1844533

https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1896884/

http://www.aca.sa.gov.au/Memorial-Details/cem/West%20Terrace%20Cemetery/mapid/236479

http://www.158squadron.co.uk/memorial

http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/bombercommandno35squadron.cfm

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/rslvwm/comfy/cms/files/files/000/000/484/original/Faber_-_The_Unknown_Cenotaph.pdf

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/resource-library/enlistment-and-embarkation-wwi

http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/mont-st-quentin/what-happened-here.php

https://graves.brisbane.qld.gov.au/

https://billiongraves.com/grave/Albert-Percival-Brook/11246864

http://korean-war.commemoration.gov.au/armed-forces-in-korea/royal-australian-navy-in-the-korean-war.php

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a46.htm

http://aircrewremembered.com/parritt-geoffrey.html

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=168319

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/good-news-from-home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305OVtcvJn8

www.youtube.com/watch?v=305OVtcvJn8

https://www.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1068124--33-.pdf

https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1522177/

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/poor-devils--the-battle-of-pozieres

https://johnknifton.com/tag/103-squadron/

https://emhs.org.au/person/hall/may_isabel

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2234766/COCKROFT,%20VERNE%20EDWARD

http://aircrewremembered.com/taylor-g.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QMxo7VD4is

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/sep/29/us-museum-under-fire-over-display-of-skull-of-australian-soldier

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1898091

http://aircrewremembered.com/holland-alan-james.html

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/1085947

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3416715

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3434325

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=7367542

http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1oipg/BritainAtWarAugust20/resources/55.htm