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The iconic image of the Kokoda campaign. Taken by Damien Parer, it portrays members of the 39th Militia Battalion, AMF, parade after weeks of fighting in dense jungle during the Kokoda campaign. The officer in front is Lieutenant Johnson. The men behind him are left to right, Armie Wallace, Bill Sanders, Harry Hodge, Kevin Surtees, George Cudmore, GeorgePuxley Kevin Whelan, Len Murrell, Dick Secker, Neil Graham, Clive Gale and Jack Boland.

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Distinguished Conduct Medal 'For conspicuous gallantry at Chuignes, 23 August, 1918, when he took charge of his platoon after its officer was wounded. When held up by a next of machine guns, he showed great skill in the use of his Lewis gun section, under the covering fire of which he charged the post, and captured three machine guns and forty prisoners.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 35 Date: 15 April 1920

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DCM Courage and good judgement as Lewis Machine Gun Sergeant. (Ligny 27 February 1917). 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayed great courage and determination in maintaining his position against very superior numbers of the enemy. He was wounde.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 169 Date: 4 October 1917

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The "Adelaide Rifles" Battalion Shooting Team, with Captain Miles Beevor seated in the centre c 1912. They are equipped with what appear to be brand new SMLE No 1 Mk III* rifles possibly straight from the then new Small Arms Factory at Lithgow. A couple of the NCOs have seen Boer War or other British Colonial service. Miles Beevor was acting CO of the Battalion in the latter stages of ANZAC and later commanded the 52nd battalion in France until he was wounded at Pozieres. He was repatriated to Australia.

'During the operations at Villers-Bretonneux on the night of 24/25th April, 1918, this N.C.O. was conspicuous for his courage, coolness and devotion to duty. When all his officers had become casualties he at once took command of the company and showed great judgement in the selection of position, etc. He kept his company well in hand and in touch with the adjoining companies, and saw that the position selected was strongly consolidated. By his timely assumption of command, and the excellent spirit he displayed throughout, the morale of his men was maintained and his coolness, cheerfulness and energy set a spelndid example to all ranks.'

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H J BRAKENRIDGE

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Troops of an Australian Battalion on the deck of battleship Prince of Wales in Mudros Harbour just before the landing. The ship was part of the fleet which transported Australian troops to the Gallipoli landing at Anzac Cove. 24 April 1915. AWM A01829

ANZAC Cove

An Australian digger searches for his mate's grave amid the shell-torn landscape that was Pozieres. The fact that so many men have no known grave is unsurprising given field burials like these which could be subsequently obliterated by more fighting and shellfire. After the war these ad hoc burials were concentrated into the cemeteries we know today.

Official caption reads; "The graves of 13 Australian soldiers from the 10th Battalion who, unless stated otherwise, were killed in action on 19 May 1915. From left to right, the graves are those of 1398 Private (Pte) Charles Olsen; 1037 Pte William Cocks, killed in action on 23 May 1915; 894 Pte Albert Henry Davey; 1751 Pte Joseph Gurry; 984 Pte Charles Henry Allen; 1558 Pte Albert Beswick (actually Baswick); 101 Pte Walter Batley Seaman; 801 Private Arthur Sydney Johnson; 1357 Pte Sydney Brooke Holt, killed on 29 May 1915; 299 Pte Thomas Arthur Atwill; 1184 Pte Benjamin Thomas Thorpe; 1163 Pte John George Murphy; 1452 Pte William Altree, killed on 29 May. Post war investigation revealed that Pte Albert Baswick, coach trimmer, enlisted at Oaklands, South Australia and embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Runic on 27 November 1914; Albert Baswick was an alias of John Routledge, son of Thomas and L Caroline Routledge, of 4 Holt Terrace, Shell Street, Stanley Grove, Manchester, England" This group correlates closely with the CO's account of the battle (see Lock p46) plus three other men PTEs Cocks Holt and Altree who died in the days following the major counter attack. The CO's account indated that 11 men were killed. Ten are thus accounted for in this photograph with the eleventh perhaps succumbing to wounds in the evacuation chain. This group is now all interred in the Shrapnel Gully Cemetery. AWM Image http://www.awm.gov.au/view/collection/item/C02199/

October 1914. Informal group portrait of nine members of the 10th Battalion, all of whom enlisted in 1914, and embarked from Adelaide, SA, on 20 October 1914 aboard HMAT Ascanius and served at Gallipoli. All of these men, except Private (Pte) Guy Fisher and Pte Eric Meldrum were students at St Peters Anglican College in Adelaide, and five of them died during the First World War. Identified, left to right, back row: Sergeant (later Lieutenant) John Rutherford Gordon, invalided to Australia with slight enteric fever, after which he joined the Australian Flying Corps and served as a rear gunner/observer with the 62 Squadron. He was awarded a Military Cross for his courage and returned to Australia (RTA) 6 May 1919; 40 Pte Francis Herbert 'Bertie' Stokes, killed in action on 27 April 1915 at Gallipoli after saving many lives on the day of the landing by rescuing those who fell into the water on the beach and carrying them to the relative safety of the cliff face; 33 Pte Guy Fisher, discharged on 2 January 1916; 41 Pte Eric Douglas Meldrum, returned to Australia on 21 December 1917; 638 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Philip de Quetterville Robin, killed in action at Gallipoli, on 28 April 1915. Front row: 47 Pte Thomas Anderson Whyte, died of wounds at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915; 31 Pte (later Lieutenant) Arthur Seaforth Blackburn, awarded the Victoria Cross on 9 September 1916 for his actions on the night of 23 July 1916; 38 Pte (later Lieutenant) Wilfrid Oswald Jose, transferred to the 50th Battalion, and was killed in action at Noreuil, France on 3 April 1917; 286 Pte Malcolm St Aiden Teesdale Smith, killed in action on 27 April 1915 at Gallipoli, while rescuing fellow soldiers who were wounded.

awm - E040371.jpg Taken just after the Armistice, this image shows some of the detritus of battle which together with the bodies of the dead, remained on the field. The men whose remains were discovered thus lie in VC Corner cemetery, interred in a Common Grave with their names inscribed on the rear wall. Their remains were not at the time identifiable and in most cases their ID discs had been removed immediately after the battle by gallant comrades who risked and sometimes gave their own lives in the process of trying to account for the dead.

AWM Image of three unidentified 7 Battalion men near a 'bomb' stop or barricade in the Turkish trenches at Lone Pine, illustrating the overhead cover that had made the initial break-in so difficult.