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2023 Vietnam Veteran Vigil
Bernie Mundy undertook training at the RAAF's No. 2 School of Technical Training
Ron Thomas served in the RAAF from 1940 - 45
Aerial view of the RAAF Base at Rathmines the home of No. 3 OTU
Plaque commemorating the 2nd/4th Field Ambulance - Dedicated to the gallant members of the 2 / 4 Field Ambulance 7th Division A.I.F. who trained in this camp in 1940 and served in the Middle East Campaigns in North Africa and Syria - the New Guinea Campaigns 1942 - 1944 in the Owen Stanley Ranges and Markham and Ramu Valleys - in the landings at Balikpapan and Borneo in 1945. 624 Limekilns Road , Remembrance Park Wall, Forest Grove, 2795
Cecil Poole served in the RAAF as aircrew
Nadzab, New Guinea. 5 October 1943. Pilots and ground crew of No. 4 (Tactical Reconnaissance) Squadron RAAF beside a Boomerang aircraft, serial no. A46-???, code name QE-H, named `On the Job'. Identified from left to right: Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Black LAC Brough Flying Officer (FO) David Murrie FO Philip Simpson Corporal Chambers LAC Rayson Note the nose art, the cartoon character Goofy painted on the side of the aircraft by Corporal Chambers.
Two Royal Air Force Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX of No. 611 Squadron (West Lancashire), based at RAF Biggin Hill, London (UK), in 1943. Aircraft FY-F was flown by squadron CO Squadron Leader Armstrong (an Australian). The photo is part of a lager formation of eight Spitfires, taken out of a Lockheed Hudson as a public relations photo over Biggin Hill.
The AIF project

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=242406
Portrait of James Dobbs. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930's, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.
AIF Project Page summary - PTE H HALLAM

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=123632
Lieutenant Colonel Olive Ada KESTEL, RRC, Australian Army Nursing Service. A portrait painted by one of her soldiers. In this portrait she is wearing the ribbon of the Royal Red Cross and the Africa Service. Her other war medals had yet to be issued.
Recommended for the Military Cross

"During the operations east of YPRES on 20th September 1917 Captain BURKE was in charge of the right support Company. Under heavy shelling, in the absence of the leading Company Commander who had been wounded, this officer, regardless of personal danger, reorganised the right flank of the Battalion. At a critical moment he reorganised men of another Battalion who were in rear and sent them forward to their objective and established a Strong Point in a sound tactical position under heavy fire, At all times he displayed sound judgment and good leadership."
Observer 20 Squadron RAAF SWPA, Consolidated PBY Catalina, 1943-44. Missing air operations Java Sea, 21 May, 1944.
Lieuetnant Colonel Harry Smith has presented his medal set to the AWM
Lieutenant Colonel Harry Smith, SG,MC, OC of D Company, 6RAR at the Battle of Long Tan on 18 August 1966, has presented his medal set to the Australian War Memorial
HMAS Swan (II)
Bill’s Movements Gallipoli Aug-Oct 1915

Bill_s_Movements_Gallipoli_Aug-Oct_1915.pdf
Officers of the South Australian Transvaal Contingent, 10th Battalion: Lieut. Stapleton, Captain Howland, Captain Lascelles, Lieut. Blair, Major Toll and Lieut. Powell.
HMAS Swan in 1939
HMAS Swan at anchor wearing a camouflage scheme later in the war
HMAS Swan, USAT Mauna Loa and HMAS Warrego at Darwin, just prior to raid of 19 Feb 1942.
A B25 Mitchell bomber of No. 180 Squadron lines up for take off at RAF Dunsfold, Surrey in the United Kingdom supporting Allied operations in Normandy

A B25 Mitchell bomber of No. 180 Squadron lines up for take off at RAF Dunsfold, Surrey in the United Kingdom supporting Allied operations in Normandy
An extract of the 5th QIB Nominal Roll
PORTRAIT OF 422175 FLYING OFFICER R. J. HANSEN, SYDNEY, NSW, AN RAAF AIR GUNNER IN NO. 180 (MITCHELL) SQUADRON RAF WITH THE SECOND TACTICAL AIR FORCE.
Hughes, NT. 1945-07-19. North American B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft, code nos. KO-S, KO-E, KO-V, KO-G, of No. 2 Squadron RAAF lined up on the airstrip in North Western Australia, are used in anti-shipping sweeps in the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) with considerable success.
Informal group portrait of RAF ground staff with RAAF and Royal New Zealand Air Force air crew of a Mitchell bomber squadron, 180 Squadron RAF with the Second Tactical Air Force. Left to right: two RAF ground crew, Jock (Fitter) and Alf (Rigger); 422248 Flying Officer (FO) Jack B O'Halloran, pilot of Sydney, NSW, (later Flight Lieutenant and DFC); 417379 Pilot Officer James Crosby (Jim) Jennison (later Flying Officer and DFC) of Adelaide, SA; 422175 FO Reg J Hansen of Sydney, NSW; FO Harry M Hawthorn, RNZAF of Hastings, NZ. The aircraft was lettered D and the pilot named it 'Daily Delivery' and the nose art illustration portrays a stork carrying a large bomb. Location RAF Dunsfold, Surrey UK

Informal group portrait of RAF ground staff with RAAF and Royal New Zealand Air Force air crew of a Mitchell bomber squadron, 180 Squadron RAF with the Second Tactical Air Force. Left to right: two RAF ground crew, Jock (Fitter) and Alf (Rigger); 422248 Flying Officer (FO) Jack B O'Halloran, pilot of Sydney, NSW, (later Flight Lieutenant and DFC); 417379 Pilot Officer James Crosby (Jim) Jennison (later Flying Officer and DFC) of Adelaide, SA; 422175 FO Reg J Hansen of Sydney, NSW; FO Harry M Hawthorn, RNZAF of Hastings, NZ. The aircraft was lettered D and the pilot named it 'Daily Delivery' and the nose art illustration portrays a stork carrying a large bomb. Location RAF Dunsford Surrey UK
Captain Keith Gordon McDonald MC - photo from his USA Exit Visa on return to Australia via the USA
Awarded the MM but died of his wounds before he could be presented with it.

'At NOREUIL on 2nd April, 1917 this Non Commissioned Officer although wounded twice continued to lead his section in the face of heavy Machine Gun and Shell fire, encouraging his men, and continuing to do his duty until receiving his third wound.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 174 Date: 11 October 1917
Private W.P. KELLY Died of Wounds, Lone Pine Gallipoli
WW2 Nominal Roll

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=694864&c=WW2#R
Vietnam Nominal Roll

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1271858&c=VIETNAM#R
DCM, MM, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal , Victory Medal
HMAS Swan firing from one of its twin 4.5 inch turrets on Japanese positions in the But-Kuak area between Aitape and Wewak, New Guinea.
NAA Service Record Reginald Charles KING

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=1972683&isAv=N
Vietnam Nominal Roll

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1267788&c=VIETNAM#R
Vietnam. 1967-07. Adjusting the elevation on a 105mm howitzer during Operation Paddington is Gunner Preston Nourse of Port Augusta, SA, and 108th Battery, 4th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery.
Members of the Australian Medical Support Force engaged in triage and evacuation of casualties from Kibeho Rwanda
The Campbells of Anlaby

HSSA_Journal_2009_Scarfe.pdf
The Campbells of Anlaby

HSSA_Journal_2009_Scarfe.pdf
Distinguished Conduct Medal

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1534610
DVA Nominal Roll Entry - WOFF F J KEVIN

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1205852&c=WW2#R
AIF Project page

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=64324
Studio portrait of 3372 Corporal (Cpl) Ralph Cornelius Burrill, 7th Reinforcements, 26th Battalion, of Mount Seymour, Tas, wearing a cap. Cpl Burrill enlisted on 3 August 1915 and embarked from Hobart aboard HMAT Ajana on 13 December 1912. He later served as a sergeant and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) on 22 September 1916. He returned to Australia on 10 September 1917 as a member of the 12th Battalion. Darge Collection
DCM at Ligny Feb 1917

DCM Courage and good judgement as Lewis Machine Gun Sergeant. (Ligny 27 February 1917). 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayed great courage and determination in maintaining his position against very superior numbers of the enemy. He was wounde.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 169 Date: 4 October 1917
H J BRAKENRIDGE

H J BRAKENRIDGE
CHERPITER John Commonwealth War Graves Commission record

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1459085/CHERPITER,%20JOHN
1661 Joseph Claude COX National Archives record

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3436898
Arnold Roy McFarlane's NAA Service Record

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=1943276

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