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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.

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

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.

The Funeral guard commanded by Captain Damian White of 10/27RSAR and bearing the Battalions Regimental Colour, approaching Courcelete Cemetery

Surname: HUGHES; Given Names: Wlfred John Mann; Date of Birth: 29 April 1895; Date of Enlistment: 1 February 1915; Trade or Calling: University Student; Birth Location: Adelaide; Address prior to enlistment: Fourth Ave St Peters;

Australian soldiers at Messines in July 1917, standing in German trenches demolished by the mine blasts. E00554 AWM

Forest-sur-Marque communal cemetery near Lille, France

John Leslie HOPPING of Caltowie

845, Jack Reginald KENYON, of Prospect SA

Service graves in the Communal Cemetery section

The family grave of the Carman family; Their three sons Clement Roland and David were all lost in fighting during WW1 in 1916,1917 and 1918. The family tomb bears the three "Dead Men's Pennies" - bronze plaques awarded to the families of the Fallen. They were intended for use in just this way - as memorials to family sacrifice .

HMAS Bataan, a destroyer, off the Korean Peninsula. The destroyer is seen here engaged in receiving a jackstay transfer from the Royal Navy carrier HMS OCEAN. It is sufficiently clear to show the late Commander Warwick Gracegirdle, RAN - BATAAN 's Korean War CO - on the bridge. This photo is taken off Korea, and the destroyer in the background is HMS CONSORT. Photo: Photographer unknown, the image was published in 1986 for the RAN's 75th Anniversary celebrations. The image is held in the Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial, image ID 300378, listed copyright expired, public domain. It has also been posted on an InvisionFree ship modeller's blog. These are the AWM's descriptive notes that accompany the image: KOREA. ELEVATED PORT SIDE VIEW SHOWING DETAIL OF THE FORWARD PART OF THE DESTROYER HMAS BATAAN (EX-HMAS KURNAI) (D191) AS SHE RECEIVES PERSONNEL BY HIGHLINE FROM THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS OCEAN. NOTE FORWARD TWIN 4.7 INCH MK XII GUNS IN CP XIX MOUNTINGS, WITH THE BREECHES OF B MOUNTING PROMINENT AND THE 40 MM BOFORS AA GUN IN THE PORT BRIDGE WING. BEHIND THE BRIDGE ARE THE DIRECTOR CONTROL TOWER AND RANGEFINDER TOWER MK II WITH A TYPE 285 FIRE CONTROL RADAR MOUNTED UPON THE LATTER. NOTE ROPE STOWAGE IN THE BLAST SCREEN FORWARD OF B MOUNTING AND CARLEY FLOATS BY THE FORWARD SUPERSTRUCTURE WITH PADDLES NEATLY ARRAYED. THE SCREENING DESTROYER IN THE BACKGROUND IS HMS CONSORT. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

James Tyner's Medal Set - L-R 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

3294 PTE Leslie DOWDELL RH#11

935 Private Frank Oliver SCUTT 43rd Battalion RH#15

1184 Private James Michael TYNER 3 Fd Amb RH#22

Thomas Yapp's medal set: British War medal Victory Medal

A Lancaster crew of No 467 Squadron, RAAF, at Bottesford, Leicestershire, preparing to set off for Berlin on the evening of 31 August 1943. They are, from left: Flight Sergeants J Scott, G. Eriksen and A Boys, Sergeant C Adair, Flight Sergeant B Jones (Captain), Flight Sergeant J Wilkinson and Sergeant E Tull, RAF, the only Englishman in the crew. This aircraft is 'M for Mother' at this time a veteran of 40 missions. It appears in two other published images, one of which was close-up of the nose art on the aircraft (AWM UK UK0463). It also appears in another image on this site, with a different crew later in 1943 by which time it had racked up 53 missions.

Roy Hodgkinsons - war artist. Depicting an incident which happened whilst the artist was sitting on the beach at Oro Bay. Two Hudson's of the Royal Australian Air Force had taken off from Dobodura, with wounded and sick for general hospital. As soon as these planes were airbourne 14 Japanese Zeros first strafed the airship and then attacked the Hudsons, one of which shot down a Zero whilst the other was hotly chased by Zeros and eventually shot down, making a perfect belly landing on the sea. All patients were brought ashore safely with the exception of two stretcher cases who had been killed by Zero bullets. The rear gunner died from a wound in the lungs received during combat.

Coomalie Creek, NT. 20 January 1943. A group portrait of pilots and observers of No. 31 Squadron RAAF standing on and in front of a Squadron Bristol Beaufighter aircraft. Left to right: front (standing): Pilot Officer Cormie; 260740 Flight Lieutenant John Alfred Madden; Squadron Leader G. W. Savage; Sergeant Barnett; Squadron Leader E. Cook; Flight Lieutenant G. A. Greenwood; Flight Lieutenant P. E. Beven; Flying Officer J. D. Entwhistle; Flying Officer D. Delaporte. In front Sergeant B. Agnew (holding a dog). Note the mascots, a Joey (young kangaroo) in front of the group and the dog held by Sergeant Agnew.

Jamestown HB02 - Jamestown & DIstrict Honour Board

WW2 pacific medal set - L-R; Pacific Star, British War Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45

22862, Kevin Anthony GABRIEL (MID), , Unit: Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV)

London Cemetery and Extension at Longueval, from the entrance Portico.

Flying Officer Gwynne Thomas - detail from AWM

429369 Flying Officer (FO) Richard Rodney (Rod) Young, 463 Sqn RAAF, of West Maitland, NSW at the controls of 'H' for How, about to depart on a raid on the Dortmund-Emms Canal in Germany. Just three weeks later he was flying JO-K when it was lost over Giessen, Germany

VX134490 Gunner Keith McLannan

7083 Private Robert William Thompson

WW1 post 31 Dec 1915 embarkation. L-R Military Medal British War Medal, Victory Medal,

Richard FETHERSTON - Postcard to work colleagues in Australia

Richard FETHERSTON - Postcard to work colleagues from Cairo

Portrait of Pilot Officer (later Flight Lieutenant [Fl Lt]) 404487 Thomas John O’Donohue DFM, of 159 Squadron RAF, an Australian flying with the RAF in India. He had previously served with No 460 Squadron, RAAF in England, and took part in an air raid on the Matford Works at Poissy, France. Fl Lt O’Donohue was lost on operations over Burma on 29 February, 1944 and has no known grave.

Group portrait of instructors and pupils of the 1st flying training course in front of a B.E.2a aircraft in a hangar. Back row: R Williams; T W White. Front row: George Pinnock Merz of Ballarat, Vic; H A Petre; E Harrison; D T Manwell. WIlliams went on to become 'The Father of hte RAAF'. White served in the Middle East and was captured and imprisoned by the Turks for 2 1/2 years before an epic escape. Merz was the first Australian Military aviator killed in action, in Mesopotamia.

1087 Private Thomas Carrican

Private VERE PARKINSON

Newspaper CLippings recording the 1938 bout, the first of three in succession won by PC Tom Tobin

HMAS Sydney (II) probably taken in Sydney Harbour

The MG Company of the 59th ("Hume") Battalion, probably 'in camp' at Seymour in 1940, before it merged with the 58th Battalion in late 1942

http://www.158squadron.co.uk/memorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5-qIN8fWa8

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/prisoners-of-war

https://billiongraves.com/grave/Albert-Percival-Brook/11246864

https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R2027389/

http://aircrewremembered.com/parritt-geoffrey.html

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=168319

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