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https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/the-worst-day-in-australian-military-history

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/the-worst-day-in-australian-military-history

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/political-battle-1914

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https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/letter-to-the-prime-minister-23rd-september-1915

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/letter-to-the-prime-minister-23rd-september-1915

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

Before going into battle in September 1918 Bernard wrote the following letter to his brother Gabriel’s wife, Lottie. Interestingly, it is dated 1 O...

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https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/kokoda-campaign-1942

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/java-1942--blackforce-and-the-loss-of-hmas-perth

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/java-1942--blackforce-and-the-loss-of-hmas-perth

From the Operational logbook on 16/6/1942 - "On this day the squadron completed a total of 69 operational sorties, totalling 40.50 hours, thus e...

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/bougainville--november-1944

Out of the 596 aircraft on the raid 29 were shot down. These figure were fairly typical of RAF raids on German targets at the time – immense destru...

Flight from Reykjavik, 9 November 1944 At midday on November 9, 1944, a Lockheed Hudson light bomber of the RAF 251 Squadron lifted off from t...

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"like men who had been in Hell.........drawn and haggard and so dazed they appeared to be walking in a dream, and their eyes looked glassy and star...

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Pilot Officer Warren Cowan, 31 years old from Angaston SA, was killed in action on 22 July 1942, along with his crew; Navigator, Pilot Officer D...

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