Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/political-battle-1914

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/australian-servicewomen-in-world-war-two

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/return-of-the-unknown-soldier

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/the-worst-day-in-australian-military-history

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/the-new-year--1916

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/saving-private-bishop

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/the-price-of-peace-at-last

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/empire-air-training-scheme

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/queen-victorias-last-war

Eman_Alaboody_OLSH_Evelyn_Marguerita_Yeatman.pdf

Emily_McPherson_Investigator_College_Irene_Gertrude_Hiller_Bonnin.pdf

Ned_Uren_Saint_Ignatius_Raymond_Arthur_Truman.pdf

John_Anthony_Howard_Wilkinson___S_Schultz.pdf

Sergeant_Frederick_Michael_Spafford___E_Humphrey.pdf

Theodor_Milton_Pflaum___D_Lloyd.pdf

Lt_Walter_Henry_Shiers___J_Grasser.pdf

Maxwell_Leonard_Thomas___M_Thomas.pdf

https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=2348

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7339932

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068845/document/5544837.PDF

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1601979/williams,-george-henry/

227 page autobiography by Air Commodore Lyall Robert Klaffer entitiled "Fighter Pilot". Manuscript details the authors personal history before enlistment. Accounts post-enlistment are divided into chapters based on posting: Enlistment in Citizens Air Force; Flying training at Point Cook; Flying training at RAAF base East Sale; No.3 Squadron; Central Flying School; No. 77 Squadron Japan; 24 City of Adelaide Squadron; Officer Training school Rathmines; No.2 Operational Conversion Unit; No.75 (F) Squadron Malta; ADC to the Governor-General of Australia; No.2 (F) OCU RAAF Williamstown; Central Flying School RAAF Base East Sale; RAAF College Point Cook; No.3 Fighter Combat Instructors Course; Air Armaments School; RAAF Base Williamstown; RAAF Staff College Point Cook; Air Force Headquarters; Central Flying School; No.16 Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (US) South Carolina; Headquarter Operational Command; No.1 Squadron Amberley; Base Squadron Amberley; Air Base Butterworth, Malaysia; Air Force office, Canberra. Accounts of active service during the Korean War. Training, conversion and posting experiences through the rest of his career including his role as ADC to Governor-General Field Marshal Sir William Slim. Personal photographs included throughout.

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Gallery151/dist/JGalleryViewer.aspx?B=5523054&S=1&N=34&R=0

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=5538376

Commissioned by the 28th Batttalion and 24th Anti-Tank Company Association Inc. as part of the Australian War Memorial’s Plaque Dedication Program.

Studio portrait of 874 Private Joseph Archdall Beacom, 15th Battalion of Barrengarry, NSW. Son of John Beacom and Elizabeth Chittick (formerly Beacom). A farmer prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ceramic (A40) on 22 December 1914. He was killed in action on 10 August 1916 in France, aged 31. He has no known grave, and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. His brother 4078 Private David Beacom was killed in action 5 days earlier.

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8860058

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8855550

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=6241490

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=1799995