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WANIGELA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. OPERATIONS GROUP CONFERENCE BY BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HANTON MACNIDER, COMMANDING GENERAL OF INFANTRY, 32 U.S. DIVISION, AT WHICH HE ISSUED ORDERS TO HIS TROOPS AND TO THE 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY FOR THE MOVE TO THE MUSA RIVER. OFFICERS OF THE 2/10TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION AND AUSTRALIAN NEW GUINEA ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT WERE PRESENT BY INVITATION. LEFT TO RIGHT, SEATED:- AN OFFICER OF THE 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY, THEN MAJOR H.G. HARCOURT DSO., MC., OFFICER COMMANDING 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY, BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HANFORD MACNIDER, COLONEL HALE AND MAJOR BEAVER BOTH OF 32ND U.S. DIVISION. BACK ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT:- THREE AMERICAN OFFICERS, THEN LIEUTENANT COLONEL J.G. DOBBS, OFFICER COMMANDING 2/10TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, MAJOR J.H. TREVIVIAN, 2/10TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, CAPTAIN ANDERSON OF AUSTRALIAN NEW GUINEA ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT AND CAPTAIN T.J. SCHMEDJE, MC., 2/10TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION.
WANIGELA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. VISIT OF GENERAL SIR THOMAS BLAMEY, GBE KCB CMG DSO ED, COMMANDING ALLIED LAND FORCES, SOUTH WEST PACIFIC AREA, TO WANIGELA. LEFT TO RIGHT:- GENERAL BLAMEY, BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HANFORD MACNIDER, 32ND U.S. DIVISION, MAJOR N. CARLYON, AIDE-DE-CAMP TO GENERAL BLAMEY, LIEUTENANT COLONEL J.G. DOBBS, OFFICER COMMANDING 2/10TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, AND CAPTAIN R.W. SANDERSON, 2/10TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION.
Portrait of James Dobbs. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930's, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.
TATURA, VIC. 1943-06-15. OFFICERS OF "A" COMPANY, 17TH GARRISON BATTALION, NO. 1 CAMP, TATURA INTERNMENT GROUP. LEFT TO RIGHT:- FRONT ROW, V83635 LIEUTENANT J.A. TRAVERS; V4797 LIEUTENANT C.L. WHITE, MM; V5182 MAJOR E.C. FOSTER, MC; V84737 CAPTAIN E.A. SCATES. BACK ROW:- V5519 LIEUTENANT S.H. EDWARDS; VX841 LIEUTENANT J.H. TREND AND V84066 LIEUTENANT L.F. BROWN.
TATURA, VIC. 1943-06-15. OFFICERS OF HEADQUARTERS, 17TH GARRISON BATTALION, NO. 1 CAMP, TATURA INTERNMENT GROUP. LEFT TO RIGHT, BACK ROW:- V6914(6?) LIEUTENANT E.K. HORWOOD, INTELLIGENCE OFFICER; V145... 052449
NAA Service Record Ronald A Dickson, DFC

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ShowImage.aspx?B=5379580&T=PDF
NAA Service Record 17410 PTE Herbert HALLAM

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4266809
CITATION for the AWARD of the ROYAL RED CROSS, 1st CLASS to Lieutenant Colonel OLIVE ADA KESTAL. RRC.

“Major Kestel arrived in New Guinea in September 1943 with 24 Australian Army Nursing Service personnel. During the ensuing period, the hospital was working to its capacity, and there were frequent enemy air raids in the near vicinity. She has at all times carried out her duties as matron with energy, tact and control. In consequence of Matron Kestel untiring devotion to duty, the work of nursing staff has beyond praise”.
NAA Service Record LTCOL Olive Ada KESTEL

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=6656941
A portrait of Olive KESTEL painted after her promotion and the Gazettal of her award of the Royal Red Cross. This portrait was made by one of the soldiers in her unit.
Lieutenant Colonel Olive Ada KESTEL, RRC, Australian Army Nursing Service. A portrait painted by one of her soldiers. In this portrait she is wearing the ribbon of the Royal Red Cross and the Africa Service. Her other war medals had yet to be issued.
Redacted image of Colonel Stanley Price Weir, VD, CO of the 10th Infantry Battalion AIF prior to embarkation
Staff Sergeant 36 (later Lieutenant) Clifford Charles Burge, Army Pay Corps (later 24th Battalion)
Lieutenant Leonard Gurner of the 60th Bn AIF: KIA Morlancourt France 18 July 1918

Lieutenant Leonard Gurner of the 60th Bn AIF: KIA Morlicourt France 18 July 1918
Recommended for the Military Cross

"During the operations east of YPRES on 20th September 1917 Captain BURKE was in charge of the right support Company. Under heavy shelling, in the absence of the leading Company Commander who had been wounded, this officer, regardless of personal danger, reorganised the right flank of the Battalion. At a critical moment he reorganised men of another Battalion who were in rear and sent them forward to their objective and established a Strong Point in a sound tactical position under heavy fire, At all times he displayed sound judgment and good leadership."
Observer 20 Squadron RAAF SWPA, Consolidated PBY Catalina, 1943-44. Missing air operations Java Sea, 21 May, 1944.
Allan Graham Kerr - induction photograph at OTU Scheyville
Allan Graham Kerr - induction photograph at OTU Scheyville
Tanunda, South Australia. 1 February 1920. Sister Bonayne and Colonel Price Weir after they had unveiled the WWI War Memorial in the background.
Colonel Stanley Price Weir surveys the battlefield from a fire trench at Gallipoli, not long before he was evacuated with enteric fever.
The first 10th Battalion Headquarters at Anzac, taken soon after the landing. Reading from left to right the Officers are - Captain (Capt) Harry Carew Nott (RMO later Lieutenant Colonel and post war Adelaide's first private radiologist) Capt Francis Maxwell Lorenzo, (later CO 49th Infantry Battalion) Major Frederick William Hurcombe (later to be CO of the 50th Battalion), and Lt-Col S Price Weir, DSO, VD and Mention in Despatches.
Lieuetnant Colonel Harry Smith has presented his medal set to the AWM
Lieutenant Colonel Harry Smith, SG,MC, OC of D Company, 6RAR at the Battle of Long Tan on 18 August 1966, has presented his medal set to the Australian War Memorial
HMAS Napier at speed in the Indian Ocean off Trincomalee Ceylon, on an anti-submarine patrol in 1942
HMAS Australia (II)
Lieutenant Commander Desmond Norbert Courtenay CALLEN RANR(S), RD, MiD
HMAS Napier at speed in the Mediterranean 1941
HMAS Swan (II)
Bill’s Movements Gallipoli Aug-Oct 1915

Bill_s_Movements_Gallipoli_Aug-Oct_1915.pdf
Officers of the South Australian Transvaal Contingent, 10th Battalion: Lieut. Stapleton, Captain Howland, Captain Lascelles, Lieut. Blair, Major Toll and Lieut. Powell.
HMAS Swan in 1939
HMAS Swan at anchor wearing a camouflage scheme later in the war
HMAS Swan, USAT Mauna Loa and HMAS Warrego at Darwin, just prior to raid of 19 Feb 1942.
Private A H Murray 12th Infantry Battalion
Group portrait aircrew and army officers, graduates at the School of Army Co-operation (SAC). Identified personnel believed to be in the photograph are; back row: NX58921 Lieutenant (Lt) Patrick Joseph (Pat) Horan (second from left) later awarded the United States Legion of Merit, Legionnaire, for services rendered in the cause of the Allies; Stewart Williams, probably VX45502 Lt Stewart Hammond Williams, (third from left); Keith E Noblet, (extreme right). Front row: SX4550 Captain (Capt) Thomas Fergusson Gill, (third from left); VX7443 Captain (Capt) Hubert (Philip) Braddock, (fourth from right); NX51115 Capt Richard Cornish Garnsey, (extreme right), later awarded the Military Cross for outstanding courage and devotion to duty in the Lae-Finschafen area in New Guinea. Capt Garnsey was later promoted to major with the Land Headquarters. He died in Australia on 24 February 1946 aged 27 years. Capt Gill of Largs Bay, SA, was killed whilst on a reconnaissance flight over Jacquinot Bay, New Britain on 10 September 1943, aged 29 years. Capt Gill was recommended for Mention in Despatches dated 31 July 1943 for his gallant and distinguished services in the South West Papua area. The recommendation was gazetted on 31 December 1943. The SAC was established in late 1941 to instruct pilots and prospective ALOs in the techniques of army operations, the school accorded increased emphasis to the requirements of direct support. The school taught trainees specialised techniques required for tactical reconnaissance and for other close air support of the army ground forces engaged in jungle warfare in the South West Pacific theatre. The SAC was based at RAAF Fairbairn in Canberra
Awarded the Military Cross

'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He located an enemy post of eight men which had been harassing out line for some days. He led a party and surrounded the post, killing two and capturing three, including the N.C.O. in charge. He then withdrew without any casualties.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 185 Recommended 17 Apr 1918 Gazetted : 27 November 1918
Captain Mary MORRIS, AWAS. Her married name was MATTIE
A B25 Mitchell bomber of No. 180 Squadron lines up for take off at RAF Dunsfold, Surrey in the United Kingdom supporting Allied operations in Normandy

A B25 Mitchell bomber of No. 180 Squadron lines up for take off at RAF Dunsfold, Surrey in the United Kingdom supporting Allied operations in Normandy
An extract of the 5th QIB Nominal Roll
Flight Sergeant (later Flying Officer) Charles Lamond, MM, No. 226 Squadron (RAF)
PORTRAIT OF 422175 FLYING OFFICER R. J. HANSEN, SYDNEY, NSW, AN RAAF AIR GUNNER IN NO. 180 (MITCHELL) SQUADRON RAF WITH THE SECOND TACTICAL AIR FORCE.
Private C Lamond, MM - Award of the Military Medal

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1568340
DVA Nominal Roll extract

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1047213&c=WW2#R
John Thompson (with cigarette) and crew members On the right, FSGT Charles Lamond, MM immediate L of John Thompson believed to be Warrant Officer Norm Robinson, far left unknown
DVA Nominal Roll Extract

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1073605&c=WW2
Hughes, NT. 1945-07-19. North American B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft, code nos. KO-S, KO-E, KO-V, KO-G, of No. 2 Squadron RAAF lined up on the airstrip in North Western Australia, are used in anti-shipping sweeps in the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) with considerable success.
Portrait of 417780 Flight Sergeant A. J. Ballantyne, Waikerie, SA, who belongs to No. 180 (Mitchell) Squadron RAF.
PORTRAIT OF 412689 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT C. W. RANDALL, FROM TRUNDLE, NSW, AN RAAF AIR GUNNER IN NO. 180 SQUADRON, RAF, STANDING IN FRONT OF THE NOSE OF ONE OF THE SQUADRON'S B25 MITCHELL AIRCRAFT. THIS SQUADRON IS FLYING WITH THE SECOND TACTICAL AIR FORCE.

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