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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://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/168354863?searchTerm=norman%20thompson&searchLimits=l-title=828|||l-category=Article

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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

http://aircrewremembered.com/smith-eric-alfred.html

http://aircrewremembered.com/page-eric.html

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...

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...

http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ridgewell-frederick-harold.html

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167835649?searchTerm=norman%20thompson&searchLimits=l-title=828|||l-category=Article

"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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