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Physios Audrey Simpson (l), Marjorie Hill (c) and N H Burgess (r) doing plaster work at 109 AGH, Alice Springs, 1942

2/4 AGH, Labuan, Borneo, 1945

Ward at 2/4 Australian General Hospital, Labuan, Borneo 1945

Kensal Green Cemetery is a remarkable heritage site in which are interred a large range of notable personalities in modern English history.

"Star" boring plant, used by the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company (AEMM).

"We have not forgot you Cobber" inscription on 1036 Pte Samuel RIDLER's grave at Pheasant Wood Cemetery, Fromelles

Captain Thomas SHERIDAN's grave at Pheasant Wood cemetery

13367 Cpl Thomas Andrew HEWISH

R075 DUNN Albert Edward, Private 1902 50th Bn

FSGT Noel Wilkinson GADSDEN 625 Sqn RAF. Flt Sgt GADSDEN trained as an Air Gunner as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS), and was posted to No. 625 Squadron RAF operating Lancaster bombers. On the night of 12/13 August 1944, Flt Sgt GADSDEN's Lancaster, serial number ME733, radio call sign CF-Z, was shot down and crashed at Hollenstein, Germany after an operational sortie over Brunswick. He was killed alongside six other crew members

Studio portrait of 411099 Aircraftman, later Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Allan Douglas Moffatt of Armidale, NSW. Enlisting in the RAAF in March 1941, Flt Sgt Moffat trained as an Aerial Gunner as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) in Canada and England, and was posted to 625 Squadron RAF flying Lancaster bombers. On the night of 12/13 August 1944, Flt Sgt Moffatt's Lancaster, serial number ME733, radio call sign CF-Z, was shot down and crashed at Hollenstein, Germany after an operational sortie over Brunswick. He was killed alongside six other crew members, aged 24.

A posed photo showing 3 Squadron pilots scrambling to their aircraft (apparently having been sitting in the dust awaiting the command to 'go').

North Africa Western Desert - A Tomahawk aircraft of No. 3 Squadron RAAF being re-armed before another sortie. Image made by George Silk

1763 Trooper Joseph Wren

NX30NR Henry HULIN 2nd / 4th Field Regiment

TX11229 Private Roy Absolom

Private Roy Absolom

James Liddell with his son, James Stanley Liddell NX8279. Probably taken in 1941.

BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET, ENGLAND. OCTOBER 1941. 404790 PILOT OFFICER CHARLES ANTONY (TONY) HARLAND (QUEENSLAND) ON LEFT AND PILOT OFFICER 402913 HENRY (HARRY) ROLAND TRAIN. HARLAND WAS LATER KILLED IN A RAID ON ESSEN, GERMANY, ON 11 APRIL 1942.

Morphettville Camp in 1915 (i.e. after Cowper passed through).

His medals — including the Military Medal awarded for Alfred's heroism on day one of the Third Battle of Ypres — have passed down the generations to Alan Bishop, 58, of Morphett Vale. Alan has the medals of all three Bishop brothers; the family tradition is for them to go to the youngest son of the youngest son. Alan’s grandfather, Victor, the youngest of the four Bishop brothers, was too young to go to World War I. The medals went to him when Lloyd died in 1951, apparently at Lloyd’s request. When Alan dies the medals will go to his eight-year-old grandson, Hamish. “I was 13 when they passed down to me,” Alan told the Sunday Mail this week. “I thought ‘Gee, that’s nice’, without really understanding what it meant because I was so young. “All I know is I’m glad I wasn’t one of them. When you look at Alfred’s record, he was in and out of hospital with bronchitis and pneumonia. So they were fighting the weather as well. “They’re never forgotten. They’re always in the back of your mind.”

This is a photo of troops from the 10th Battalion at Gallipoli. This is what it would have been like for Crowder.

This is the Australian convalescent hospital, al Hayat, Helouan, Egypt, which is where William went when he was wounded.

This is the Australian Hospital ship ‘S.S. Kyarra’, that William travelled back to Australia on. This photo was taken on the 6/12/14.

This is an image of the letter that William sent to the camp commander, begging for his discharge.

This photo is of St. Barnabas Church of England, which is where Crowder got married, in 1916.

This image is of a soldier from the 10th battalion at Mena Camp, Egypt playing with a kangaroo, which was the regimental mascot. The soldiers in the background are from the 9th and 10th Battalions, and they are looking towards the pyramids.

This picture is of the ship Ionian that Crowder travelled on to reach Lemnos. He boarded it on the 1/3/1915.

430696 John Ewart "Jack" Norris 460 Sqn RAAF WW2

Morphetville race course - where he trained

Map displaying the defensive layout during the siege during April to May 1941.

The grave pf Private Edward Burney 32nd Battalion at Pheasant Wood Cemetery Fromelles

Walter WIlloughby HOSKING

One of the former 87 Squadron Mosquitos painted red privately registered and sponsored by AMPOOL ready for departure to London for an air race. It never made it crash landing in a swamp in Burma after a bad weather diversion.

In one of the most iconic photos of the Second World War, pilots of No. 87 Squadron scramble to their Hurricane Mk 1 (note the two bladed wooden propellers) in France to engage attacking Luftwaffe aircraft.

87 Squadron Photo Reconnaissance DH 98 Mosquitos

A Mosquito aircraft of No 87 Squadron RAAF, undergoes an overhaul by unidentified ground crew at Alice Springs, NT. The guns have been removed and a camera placed in the nose of the aircraft in readiness to participate in topographic surveys for the Army. The ground crew are performing maintenance on the undercarriage and in the background is another Mosquito aircraft.

One of the F4 P38 Lightnings operated by 1 PRU. The P38 did not have a very auspicious career with 1 PRU because of chronic unserviceability issues.

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The cover of Gellert's most successful book of poetry, which cemented his reputation as Australia's premier warrior poet of WW1

392 Sergeant Leon Maxwell GELLERT

Group portrait of the crew of "K" for Kitty, 458 Squadron RAAF after a raid. 458 Squadron was at this stage based in Yorkshire it later transferred to the Middle East. Identified, left to right: 404455 Sergeant (Sgt) James Howard "Rupe" Holmes, captain of Brisbane, Qld; 404611 Sgt Sven Ivanouw Hansen, 2nd pilot of Brisbane, Qld; 1261126 Sgt Les H Empson RAF, front gunner; 407199 Sgt Robert McKerlie (Bob) Croft, rear gunner of Adelaide, SA; probably 404343 Sgt Norman Henry Kobelke, observer of Brisbane, Qld (originally of Bulawayo, Rhodesia); 1283720 Sgt Ken A Cousins, RAF, wireless operator.

Surname: GAY; Given Names: Beaumont Colbey; Date of Birth: 24 November 1876; Date of Enlistment: 16 September 1916; Trade or Calling: Railway Employee; Birth Location: Adelaide; Address prior to enlistment: 56 Main North Rd Prospect; Photograph sent by: Mrs B C Gay Source: State Records SA

'G for George' is perhaps the best known WW II aircraft in Australia. It has been the centerpiece of the AWM since it was installed in 1955. The aircraft is a Mk1 Lancaster that served for 17 months with 460 Squadron, from 1942 until April 1944, completing 89 missions before being flown to Australia as part of a War Bond fundraising campaign. It famously flew under the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

(L to R) Bede Francis Dowd and Robert Burley) at the end of the war. Bede lost an arm after being pinned under his horse and presumed dead in or near Egypt for some time. The photo must have been taken at the end of the war as in this photo he is missing an arm.

3029 PTE Edwin Charles DAVIS of the 26th Infantry Battalion

1613 Richard William KIRBY 3rd Light Horse Regiment / 1st LH Machine Gun Squadron

1774 Joseph Alfred Irwin