Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=335491

One of the plaques at the base of each of the memorial trees. Gunner A.E. Richter. Lest we Forget

Lancaster Mk I tail number NA 533 Squadron Code AF-P collided with another aircraft, Lancaster Mk 1 Tail number HK555 Squadron Code KO-E from No. 115 Squadron. The Navigator of Beck's aircraft POFF Bartlett was the only survivor of the 14 crew.

Commissioned by the 2/24th Australian Infantry Battalion Association Inc. as part of the Australian War Memorial’s Plaque Dedication Program.

SINGLETON, AUSTRALIA. 1943-01. GUNNERS OF THE 2/2ND FIELD REGIMENT, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY, TAKING PART, WITH THEIR 25-POUNDER GUNS, IN A GAS-SHELL DEMONSTRATION.

VIEW OF THE VALLEY FROM THE ROAD TURNING INTO THE BRALLOS PASS, LOOKING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH-WEST. IN THIS AREA WERE POSITIONS OF THE 2/11TH BATTALION AND 2/2ND FIELD REGIMENT, ON SLOPES BELOW THE ROAD, AND 16TH BRIGADE POSITIONS. SSW IN THE MID-DISTANCE, WERE POSITIONS OF 2 PLATOONS OF 2/8TH BATTALION. SOUTH-WEST AND IN THE DISTANCE, 17TH BRIGADE POSITIONS, AND IN THE FOREGROUND, 2/4TH BATTALION POSITIONS.

ONE OF THE GUNS OF THE 2/2ND FIELD REGIMENT FIRING AT A JAPANESE POSITION IN THE AREA IN WHICH LIEUTENANT A. CHOWNE, MM, GAINED HIS VC.

Brass 25 pounder shell case engraved with 'THE LAST SHOT FIRED IN AITAPE-WEWAK CAMPAIGN NEW GUINEA FIRED BY C.TP.4BTY.2/2 AUST FD REGT AT ULEBILUM NEAR YAMIL SOUTH OF THE TORRECELLI MOUNTAINS AT 1002HRS 3 SEP 1945. AND PRESENTED BY C.TP TO BRIGADIER M.J. MOTEN. CBE.DSO AND BAR ED COMMANDING 17 AUST.INF. BDE. A.I.F.'

MEMBERS OF 2/2 FIELD REGIMENT, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY, LOADING THE 155MM M1 "LONG TOM" BEFORE FIRING ONTO THE JAPANESE POSITIONS 14,600 YARDS AWAY. THE SHELL WEIGHS 95 POUNDS.

Studio portrait of 874 Private Joseph Archdall Beacom, 15th Battalion of Barrengarry, NSW. Son of John Beacom and Elizabeth Chittick (formerly Beacom). A farmer prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ceramic (A40) on 22 December 1914. He was killed in action on 10 August 1916 in France, aged 31. He has no known grave, and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. His brother 4078 Private David Beacom was killed in action 5 days earlier.

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8014664

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/210640154

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/261135635

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/261154571

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/261134076

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3009406

https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+47837

https://vwma.org.au/research/home-page-archives/cheer-up-society-and-the-rsa

https://vwma.org.au/research/resource-library/letter-from-lone-pine

https://vwma.org.au/research/home-page-archives/the-south-australian-red-cross-information-bureau

https://vwma.org.au/research/home-page-archives/harold-carseldine

https://vwma.org.au/research/home-page-archives/the-new-year--1916

https://vwma.org.au/research/home-page-archives/diary-of-a-destroyer

https://vwma.org.au/research/home-page-archives/adelaides-war-memorial-oak

https://vwma.org.au/research/home-page-archives/saving-private-bishop

Details from his recommendation for the award of the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Bckingham Palace April 1917: "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.  He made a daring reconnaissance, and led raiding parties across "No Man's Land" to the point of assembly.  Later he carried five wounded men back to a place of safety". Extract from the History of the 43rd Battalion  by Capt E.J. Collyer, MC and Lieut BH. Richardson - P232 "To know him was to like and admire him.  His buoyant, sunny nature pulled the slow along in times of stress and hardship. As a scout and raid leader, he had no equal in the battalion Thus died one of the finest specimens of the Australian soldier ever to set foot in France". He was killed during the period of small scale raids seizing German forward posts and pushing their font line back in what was called 'Peaceful Penetration", for which the AIF became renowned, in the months preceding the great attack on the 8th August 1918. He was initially buried in the field "In the shadow of the Monastery in the heart of Bois l'Abbe, just west of Villers".  He was later re-interred at the Adelaide Cemetery, in Villers Bretonneux."

https://vwma.org.au/research/home-page-archives/violet-town--commemorating-a-community

https://vwma.org.au/research/home-page-archives/a-tale-of-two-soldiers

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

https://vwma.org.au/research/home-page-archives/raid-on-celtic-wood-launch

https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/2026322/esbjerg-(fourfelt)-cemetery/