Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Son of Sir David John Gordon and Lady Anna Louisa (nee PEEL) GORDON of Victoria Avenue, Unley Park, Adelaide South Australia. Sir David John Gordon (4 May 1865 – 12 February 1946) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1911 to 1913 and a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1913 to 1944. He was briefly Minister of Education and Minister of Repatriation under Archibald Peake in 1917. Husband of Annie Marjorie GORDON. Father of Heather Rutherford GORDON (born 2nd October 1925) John Llewellyn GORDON (born 27th July 1927) Richard Martin Peel GORDON (born 12th April 1932) Bruce Rutherford GORDON (born 16th August 1935) Brother of 845 Driver Douglas Peel GORDON - 4th Company Australan Army Service Corps, returned to Australia 25th November 1915 (born 1892) Ex - Wing Commander J.R. Gordon was presented with an Air Efficiency Award on 21st March 1968. The Air Efficiency Award, post-nominal letters AE for officers, was instituted in 1942. It could be awarded after ten years of meritorious service to part-time officers, airmen and airwomen in the Auxiliary and Volunteer Air Forces of the United Kingdom and the Territorial Air Forces and Air Force Reserves of the Dominions, the Indian Empire, Burma, the Colonies and Protectorates. The award of the decoration was discontinued in the United Kingdom on 1 April 1999, when it was superseded by the Volunteer Reserves Service Medal. The decoration is still being awarded in New Zealand, but between 1951 and 1975 it was superseded by local awards in other Dominions. In Canada, the Air Efficiency Award was superseded by the Canadian Forces Decoration in 1951. In South Africa, it was superseded by the John Chard Medal in 1952. In Australia, it was superseded by the National Medal in 1975. Daryl Jones

Boulevard of Honour .. Sir Donald Bradman Drive Hilton. South Australia

History_153_Sqn__Oct_44-Sept_45__1_.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuSA6BvLkf0

Members of the Australian Imperial Force who served on Gallipoli will be entitled to wear over the Unit “Colour Patch” on both sleeves of the Service Dress Jacket and Greatcoat the letter “A” an indication that the wearer had taken part in the operations on the Gallipoli Peninsula.  - Military Order 354 of 1917 Members of the Australian Imperial Force who served on Gallipoli or the Islands of Lemnos, Imbros and Tenedos, or who have served on transports or hospital ships at or off Gallipoli or the Islands above-named, or in AIF lines of communication Units in Egypt will be entitled to wear over their Unit “Colour Patches” on both sleeves of their Service Dress Jacket and Greatcoat the letter “A” as an indication that the wearer had taken part in the Gallipoli operations. - Military Order 20 of 1918 Robert Kearney

10185 Jack Reed striking a dapper pose

01_Transcript_-_Part_01_Michael_von_Berg.pdf

02_Transcript_-_Part_02_Michael_von_Ber.pdf

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4705102

Unexploded WW1 artillery shells exposed by the grading of the road adjacent to Courcelette Cemetery. Vast numbers of these are recovered every year from farmland in Flanders and France.

The four WW1 Veterans who returned to France in July 1998: (left to right) Eric Abraham, Howard Pope, Charles Mance and Ted Smout at the funeral of Private Russell Bosisto. They are wearing the French Croix de Guerre awarded to them earlier at the Australian National War Memorial Villers Bretonneaux

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3511572

HUMPHRIES.pdf

AE2 in Fittzroy Dock Cockatoo Island Sydney Harbour

WEATHERS_2_.pdf

P_BADCOE_2_.pdf

F_L_BECK.pdf

WEATHERS.pdf

P_WELLS.pdf

NOACK.pdf

AE2 in Fitzroy Dock Cockatoo Island Sydney Harbour