Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

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

Commemorative_Plaque

No. 77 Driver Sidney John PENHALIGON -from the Queenslander 31 Oct 1914

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

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

Flight Sergeant Norman MacDOnald's 'Catepillar Club' badge

Lieutenant Leonard Gurner, 60th Infantry Battalion AIF

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.

WW2 RAAF Aircrew NW Europe Distinguished Flying Cross, 1939-45 Star, Aircrew Europe Star (operations over NW Europe before D Day) , Defence Medal (service in a prescribed area in this case the UK) , British War Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45

WW2 RAAF Aircrew Europe post D Day 1944. L-R 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star (prior to DDay the Aircrew Europe Star was issued) , Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45

WW1 medal set - Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal with MID Clasp

WW1 post 31 Dec 1915 embarkation: L-R Military Cross, British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Australian WW2 medal set for service in the South West Pacific - 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, 1939-45 War Medal, Australian Service Medal 39-45

Kapara Nursing Home Memorial - a WW2 Hospital site

RAAF Crest

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

London Cemetery and Extension at Longueval, from the entrance Portico.

AWM Photograph P07344.002

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Enid Mundy, Airforce, 1941- 1946.

FSGT Len Henderson in the rear turret of Lancaster JO-K - later lost on 7 Dec 1944

429369 Flying Officer (FO) Richard Rodney (Rod) Young, 463 Sqn RAAF, of West Maitland, NSW at the controls of 'H' for How, about to depart on a raid on the Dortmund-Emms Canal in Germany. Just three weeks later he was flying JO-K when it was lost over Giessen, Germany

Gilbert Pate shortly after qualifying as a Wireless Operator wearing his brevet for his craft

VX134490 Gunner Keith McLannan

FSGT Brian Grasby's grave at Hellemmes-LIlle Communal Cemetery interred with two other crewmates and other aircrew lost on the Lille raid.

The crew of PO-E; 1. Herb Ferguson, 2. Bill Hancock, 3. Charlie Nash, 4. Bill Felstead, 5. John Mellor, 6. Cyril DuToit, 7. Brian Grasby

7083 Private Robert William Thompson

96826 Myrtle May MacGinnes (Girlie)

Detail of hte Memorial - the Statue and east facing plaque - the front of the Memorial

1617 Richard Abel, 47th Battalion, and his sons 1619 Richard James Abel and 1618 Sydney Clement Abel. Father and Sons all volunteers.

Close up study of this superbly detailed statue. Aficionados who look closely enough (at the actual statue) may detect an intriguing anomaly

6408 PTE Alfred Ernest NICHOLLS

WW1 post 31 Dec 1915 embarkation. L-R Military Medal British War Medal, Victory Medal,

Richard FETHERSTON - Postcard to work colleagues in Australia

Richard FETHERSTON - Postcard to work colleagues from Cairo

Flying Officer Robert Croft

NF443427 Private Kathleen MICHAEL

L-R Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal, War Medal 39-45, Australian Service Medal 39-45

Flying Officer David Payne Croston, 463 Squadron.

Portrait of Pilot Officer (later Flight Lieutenant [Fl Lt]) 404487 Thomas John O’Donohue DFM, of 159 Squadron RAF, an Australian flying with the RAF in India. He had previously served with No 460 Squadron, RAAF in England, and took part in an air raid on the Matford Works at Poissy, France. Fl Lt O’Donohue was lost on operations over Burma on 29 February, 1944 and has no known grave.

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'.

Informal portrait of the crew of a Lancaster bomber of 467 Squadron RAAF prior to a night mission. Identified, left to right: 1352851 Sergeant (Sgt) Eric Reginald Hill, RAF, mid upper gunner of Weald, Essex; 423311 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Gilbert Firth Pate, RAAF, rear gunner of Belmore, NSW; 1350279 Sgt Kenneth Harold Tabor, RAF, flight engineer; 425413 Flt Sgt Alistair Dale Johnston, RAAF, wireless operator, of Melbourne, Vic; 400495 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Donald Philip Smeed Smith, DFC, RAAF, pilot of Melbourne, Vic; 412686 Warrant Officer Royston William Purcell, RAAF, navigator of Werris Creek NSW; 658844 Flt Sgt Jeremiah Parker, RAF, bomb aimer of England. The aircraft pictured is most likely the Lancaster Mark III bomber LM475 (PO-B). This was the usual aircraft flown by the crew listed above which crashed whilst on a mission over Lille, France, on 10 May 1944, of which only the pilot, Sqn Ldr Smith survived. Two weeks prior to this mission, bomber pilots were authorised to wear seat-type parachutes instead of the standard backpack that was stored in the plane and only hooked in case of need. This most likely saved Sqn Ldr Smith's life; on landing by parachute he made his way cross-country through France and Switzerland, and back to England several months later.

Squadron crews of mainly "C" Flight lined up in front of "A2" Aussie, March 1944.

938 Private William George SYMS

Vietnam War Memorial, Adelaide, South Australia

Barry Spicers painting of "SqnLdr David Leicester's Lancaster coming home in daylight"

James Christian Ehrke, my great uncle. James' cerebral meningitis caused by camp conditions according to medical records. He renlisted in WW2 for Homeland Defence.

Two Recce Spitfires of No 682 Photo Reconnaissance Squadron RAF at San Severo Airfield, Foggia Airfield Complex, Southern Italy, September 1944 in their PRU Blue finish. The aircraft "F" is a PR. XIX with a Griffon engine. E is a Merlin engined aircraft. The recon cameras are housed in the circular aperture in front of the roundel on the fuselage.

1087 Private Thomas Carrican