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A page from a Stokes Mortar training pamphlet, illustrating the key features of the Stokes Mortar. Baseplate to absorb recoil, adjustable bipod to 'lay' the mortar on the required bearing and elevation, and the tube or barrel. Its cylindrical bomb was inherently unstable and its 'always' fuze was necessary to ensure detonation. Later developments saw the introduction of fin stabilised bombs which with the weapon itself, evolved into the 3 inch mortar used in WW2.
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Markham Valley, New Guinea. 1943-09-05. Screened by dense smoke, paratroopers of 503 US Paratroop Infantry Regiment and Gunners of 2/4th Australian Field Regiment with their 25 pounders land unopposed at Nadzab, during the advance of 7th Australian Division on Lae.
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The pilot of a Handley-Page Halifax of No. 35 Squadron in his position prior to take-off at Linton-On-Ouse, Yorkshire. Date between circa 1940 and circa 1942
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3495A Gunner (Gnr) Harold Constantine 5th DAC
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Following the success of Le Hamel on 4 July, and the August offensive 8-11 August, King George V, who had been one of Monash's advocates, visited the Australian Corps Headquarters at Chateau Bertangles on 12 August. A display of some of the captured war material was on display along with a large turnout of troops.
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Kenneth Roy "Curly" McPherson, 13th Field Ambulance
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179 Sgt (later Lieutenant) William John Shaughnessy RH#14
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A dugout in the Tobruk area with ships ventilators or 'punkas' erected by the Australian Engineers in occupation
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FSgt George Hale, 77 Squadron, and his aircraft "Halestorm", one of very few Meteor pilots to get the better of the Mig 15s over Korea. The effect of the muzzle blast from the two 20mm cannon mounted either side of the nose is clearly evident.
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S/N 1 LT Edward Addy, 9th Australian Infantry Battalion Pieta Cemetery Malta
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The pilot (on the right) and Flight Engineer of a No. 149 Squadron Vickers Wellington bomber in 1941The pilot (on the right) and Flight Engineer of a No. 149 Squadron Vickers Wellington bomber in 1941
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Crews and Hampden aircraft of No 50 Squadron at Waddington after the raid on shipping off Bergen, 9 April 1940.
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An Avro Lancaster Mk III of No. 50 Squadron late in the war - Squadron codes 'VN' clearly visible
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HMAS Westralia (1) configured as an Armed Merchant Cruiser
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One of the ship’s assault landing craft, viewed from the aft gun platform of the landing ship infantry Westralia, as it swung aboard during the movement of the 2/24 Infantry Battalion troops, Morotai, 18 April 1945.
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A No. 431 Squadron Lancaster B Mk III running up its engines.
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Short ‘Empire’, VH-ABB ‘Coolangatta’ of QANTAS. Impressed by RAAF as A18-13 and allocated to 11 Squadron RAAF. It was returned to QANTAS on 13 July 1943, but crashed in Sydney Harbour on 11 October 1944.
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Short ‘Empire’, VH-ABB ‘Coolangatta’ of QANTAS. Impressed by RAAF as A18-13 and allocated to 11 Squadron RAAF. It was returned to QANTAS on 13 July 1943, but crashed in Sydney Harbour on 11 October 1944.
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Informal portrait of 407016 Squadron Leader W. K. Bolitho DFC of Mannum, SA, pilot, of No. 11 (Catalina) Squadron RAAF.
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The Burnside Primary School Memorial Gates, officially dedicated in 1925 to former students who lost their lives in the Great War.
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Group Captain Hughie Edwards VC DSO DFC meeting the Prime Minister of Australia at RAAF Binbrook where Edwards was the Base Commander and RAAF No. 460 Squadron was based.
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The cover of Arthur Hoyle's biography of Highie Edwards featuring the STella Bown portrait.
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The cover of Arthur Hoyle's biography of Highie Edwards featuring the STella Bown portrait.
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Ward at 2/4 Australian General Hospital, Labuan, Borneo 1945
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Colin Lawrence WRIGHT
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Captain Thomas SHERIDAN's grave at Pheasant Wood cemetery
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A posed photo showing 3 Squadron pilots scrambling to their aircraft (apparently having been sitting in the dust awaiting the command to 'go').
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North Africa Western Desert - A Tomahawk aircraft of No. 3 Squadron RAAF being re-armed before another sortie. Image made by George Silk
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657 St Elmo Rupert CORBETT - Prior to departure HMAT Hororata
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Private Roy Absolom
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Outdoor portrait of 2600 Corporal George Smith Holliday, C Company, 35th Battalion, at the memorial erected near Ash Crater to members of the 35th Battalion who fell in the battle of Messines on 7 June 1917. A memorial similar to this one, less the names, was erected by the Battalion Pioneers near Gooseberry Farm, just west of Messines, in June 1917, but was destroyed by enemy shellfire. Listed on the memorial are: Lieutenant (Lt) Thomas Henry Denton-Clark; Lt Burton Elliott Chapman; Lt Robert Donaldson Perrau; 359 Pte Randolph Adamson; 2043 Pte Paul Stanislaus Baxter; 2531 Pte Horace Brenton; 726 Pte George Leslie Bullock; 1883 Pte Henry Gilbert Burke; 2032 Pte Edward John Bellchambers; 2534 Pte John Albert Barker; 1090 Pte Frederick Charles Cantelo; 1105 Pte Robert Convery; 42 Pte Albert Henry Cooper; 2047 Pte Roy Collins; 1792 Pte Patrick Cusack; 2293 Pte Frederick John Carter; 1111 Pte Samuel Jackson Dale; 2304 Pte William James Davis; 1481 Pte Evan Archibald Davies; 421 Pte Walter John Edmonds; 2066 Pte Wentworth Lincoln East; 1945A Pte Arthur Floate; 772 Pte Fredrick Fredrickson; 1132 Pte James Gray; 1835A Pte Cyril James Glenn; 93 Pte Clarence Claude Hobden; 797 Pte Alexander Richard Hincks; 1486 Pte Cecil William Hincks; 2079 Pte Edmund Reid Hellyer; 130 Pte David Johnstone;1820 Pte Stanley Beaumont Justelius; 131 Pte Thomas Kane; 1489 Pte Edwin Kinsmore; 2342 Pte Alfred Thomas King; 2176 Pte James William Lowe; 495 Corporal Alfred Moore; 2430 Pte Leslie Moxey; 1838 Arthur Archibald McCook; 504 Pte George McLean; 2635 Pte Alexander McFarlane; 1910 Pte Gilbert Albert Arthur Norris; 2376 Pte Patrick Thomas Pickard; 877 Pte Harry Kelvin Parker; 879 Pte Joseph Peacock; 199 Pte Thomas Read; 1850 Pte Stephen Ryan; 891 Pte George Robertson; 192 Pte Samuel Reid; 1977 Pte Patrick Ryan; 1697 Pte William Symington; 202 Pte Frederick Harold Charles Smith; 2654 Pte Sidney Solman; 564 Pte Harry Shears; 2403 Pte George Grainger Stevenson; 2016 Pte Oswald David Westrup;2899 Pte Robert Charles Clyde Worland; 1270 Pte Mark Elms Waters; 585 Pte William John Williams; 2666 Pte Julian Schaffer Weber; 396 Pte Reginald Thomas Cowley; 1863 Pte Clarence Wiseman; 2368 Pte Orlando Thomas Lockyer O'Brien; 386 Pte John Alexander Campbell; 2645 Pte William Alexander Nichol; 398 Pte James Joseph Colgate; 2621 Pte James Lee; and 1898A Pte James Aaron Dodd.
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The RAAFA Stained Glass Window in the First Floor foyer
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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
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MID Medal Set: British War Medal, Victory Medal (with oak leaf symbolising Mentioned In Dispatches)
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Men of an Anti Tank Company at Tobruk; The 2nd/3rd Anti Tank Regiment and the 24th and 26th Anti Tanl Companis served at Tobruk.
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William Wilson Smith and family
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5110 PTE John HIRD
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5111 Pte Thomas HIRD
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Pembroke Dock, Wales. C. 1942. Crew of aircraft "A for Apple" of No. 461 (Sunderland) Squadron RAAF based at an RAF Station. Back row, left to right: 405083 Sergeant (Sgt) A. Miller; 401562 Sgt R. Hattam; 411426 Pilot Officer H. I. Dent; 403129 Flight Lieutenant B. Buls; 5942 Sgt A. J. Taylor; 405206 Sgt E. B. Gallagher; 6241 Sgt R. Tucker. Front row: Four members of the RAF.
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The Farina War memorial
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An informal portrait of 219689 Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Damien Healy standing in front of a Mixed Military Working Group (MMWG) briefing map which displays the legend 'Peace For Cambodia' and shows the location of United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)s military contingents. The MMWG had been formed by the United Nations Advance Mission in Cambodia (UNAMIC) with the intention of providing a high-level forum for all four Cambodian military factions and the UN's military representatives, and first met on 28 December 1991. It continued under the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). An experienced military negotiator, Lt Col Healy was MMWG's Chief Liaison Officer and the only Australian representative. He received a Conspicuous Service Cross for his work in Cambodia.
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Thomas Yapp's medal set: British War medal Victory Medal
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Lauri Sheard's grave alongside his colleagues at Bomana War Cemetery Port Moresby Papua New Guinea.
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Vickers Warwick and crew including P/Offr John "Bart" Bartholomew 1st left, the Navigator. This crew was involved in a near disaster and their aircraft was lost after an emergency landing and runway overshoot brought on by an Engine Failure (and fire) After Take-Off (EFATO), resulting in the aircraft overshooting the runway and crashing into the sea. All of the crew survived. Crew in front of their Warwick `B4` L to R: Nav F/O Bart Bartholomew, 2/Pilot H.Bath, W/AG Ted Russell, Pilot Jack Murray, W/AG Cledwyn Evans, W/AG Colin Acton and A/G F/O C.H.Haywood. Photo: Ted Russell.
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Vickers Warwick and crew including P/Offr John "Bart" Bartholomew 1st left, the Navigator. This crew was involved in a near disaster and their aircraft was lost after an emergency landing and runway overshoot brought on by an Engine Failure (and fire) After Take-Off (EFATO), resulting in the aircraft overshooting the runway and crashing into the sea. All of the crew survived. Crew in front of their Warwick `B4` L to R: Nav F/O Bart Bartholomew, 2/Pilot H.Bath, W/AG Ted Russell, Pilot Jack Murray, W/AG Cledwyn Evans, W/AG Colin Acton and A/G F/O C.H.Haywood. Photo: Ted Russell.
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Private William Charles Addems
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HAMS Canberra Sydney Harbour 1929, dressed with flags and firing a salute. Note the Supermarine Walrus seaplane, belonging to and crewed by No. 9 Squadron RAAF.
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No. 77 Driver Sidney John PENHALIGON from the Queenslander 12 Jun 1915
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