Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96035509

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1898425

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49126469

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https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1892257

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R2412642

https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/a/m/Bruce-W-Hamann/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1159.html

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=139476

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1896729

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R2435284

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29854789

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5568696

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1926961

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166392685

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R2160423

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1896202

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165691420

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R2203414

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3029774

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1526242

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R2442500

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1916691

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=3277

https://www.numismaticnews.net/article/story-of-emden-told-by-collectibles

http://aircrewremembered.com/bennett-kenneth.html

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1991967

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=290642

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=5371876

http://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1048980&c=WW2#R

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/grant-charles-robert-28124

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3273146

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=7366997

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http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/112617

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

http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?ServiceId=A&VeteranId=675734

https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sabmd&id=I344331

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHA91yZRwbc

https://somethingverybig.com/category/phil-smith/

https://somethingverybig.com/category/dale-johnston/

https://somethingverybig.com/category/gilbert-pate

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8002379

https://www.marsethistoria.nl/images/b25mitchell_pcboer.pdf

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On the 14th September, 1917, at ZILLEBEKE, the 18th Battery position was heavily shelled from 3 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. with 5.9" and 8". At 3.36 p.m. an ammunition dump alongside No. 1 gun was hit and it and the gun pit caught fire. These men [8360 M.A. COCKER, 8381 D.D. BRADBURY, (8381) Lt E.J. SHEPHERD, (10762) Lt L. CARTHEW] on Lieutenant DODD calling for a party rushed out of the shelter trench in the face of the heavy fire and with water from adjacent shell holes succeeded in putting it out. Later the pit was again hit and it and the ammunition and an adjacent pit caught fire. These men again went out with Lieutenant DODD in the face of the shelling and succeeded in saving the guns and ammunition. They displayed great gallantry and determination in the face of very considerable danger.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 31 Date: 7 March 1918

From CWGC Cemetery page. Bancourt was occupied by Commonwealth forces in March 1917. It was lost a year later during the German offensive in the spring of 1918, but recaptured by the New Zealand Division (in particular, the 2nd Auckland Battalion) on 30 August 1918. The cemetery was begun by the New Zealand Division in September 1918; the original cemetery is now Plot I, Rows A and B. The remainder of the cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields east and south of Bancourt and from certain Allied and German cemeteries, including:- BAPAUME RESERVOIR GERMAN CEMETERY, on the Bapaume Beaulencourt road, containing the graves of twelve soldiers from the United Kingdom buried by a German Field Ambulance in March and April, 1918, and of seven others and three from New Zealand who fell at the end of August, 1918. BAPAUME ROAD CEMETERY, BEAULENCOURT, a500 metres South of the Beaulencourt-Gueudecourt road, containing the graves of 20 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in October, 1916. BEAULENCOURT ROAD CEMETERIES, three in number, on the North-East side of Gueudecourt, containing the graves of 88 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in the autumn of 1916 or in April, 1917. CLOUDY TRENCH CEMETERY, GUEUDECOURT, containing the graves of 40 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in October or November, 1916. The five cemeteries last named were made by the 5th Australian Division in April, 1917. FREMICOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION. This Extension was begun by the Germans, who buried in it 1,346 of their own soldiers and 136 officers and men from the United Kingdom who fell in March, 1918. It was taken over in September, 1918, by British and Dominion units, who used it for clearing the battlefields and for fresh burials, and added 94 graves. All the graves have now been removed to other cemeteries. SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS, between Gueudecourt and Le Transloy, made by the 5th Australian Division in April, 1917. It contained the graves of 49 soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from Australia who fell in October, 1916. The great majority of these graves dated from the winter of 1916-1917 (Flers Guedecourt), the retreat of March 1918 (the German 'Operation Michael spring Offensive) , or the advance of August-September 1918 ('The Last Hundred Days'). Bancourt British Cemetery now contains 2,480 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,462 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 43 casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and to one soldier buried in Bapaume Reservoir German Cemetery, whose grave could not be found on concentration. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

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 the Royal Air Force station at Reykjavik, Iceland, on a routine meteorological recon patrol. The young crew – three RAF men and two Australians – reported clear icing conditions on the outward leg, and again on the homeward leg of the flight. With over eight hours in the air behind them, headed home, the aircraft sent out an SOS call. A few minutes later, the aircraft key was held down and the station was able to get a bearing: Hudson FK 752 was over the North Sea, just 75 miles from Reykjavik. But there was no further communication. The aircraft failed to return. The wreckage of Hudson FK 752, and the remains of the five young airmen aboard, were never found.

'Night 27th/28th August, 1916 at MOUQUET FARM. For leading bombing squads which successfully entered enemy strong point 54, and pushed forward into strongly held communication trenches, holding same, and inflicting heavy casualties on a large body of the enemy troops, and thus covering our consolidating party. These two N.C.O.s [RULE and 619 John James MYERS] threw bombs untiringly, and it is due to their personal heroism that the enemy were held back for some time, thus giving us time to prepare for their counter attack. They stood to their posts under heavy shell fire with undaunted courage.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 62 Date: 19 April 1917

'An Officer whose success as a leader is due not only to high courage and brillant flying, but also to the clear judgment and presence of mind he invariably displays. His example is of great value to other pilots in his squadron. During recent operations he shot down five machines in eleven days, accounting for two in one day.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 23 Date: 12 February 1919

'During operations of 25th and 26th September at POLYGON WOOD this man displayed great coolness and devotion to duty in that he was on duty at a signal station at Battalion headquarters at BLACK WATCH CORNER which was continually heavily shelled. The station was in a tench which was blown in several times and on many occasions partially burying the 3 men on the station. He with the aid of 2 others stuck to the telephones and kept communication open. finally the position was blown out and it was necessary to move to the Pill Box where the work was carried on till the battalion was relieved. On one occasion, when there were no runners available, and telephone lines were broken he, accompanied by Private McRae carried a despatch to the forward Battalion Station and when returning laid a telephone wire and was successful in establishing telephonic communication again. This was done under heavy shelling.' 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 31 Date: 7 March 1918