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J A Critchley_RAAF Flight Logbook#3

J_C_Critchley_RAAF_Flight_Logbook__3.pdf
J A Critchley_RAAF Flight Logbook#4

J_C_Critchley_RAAF_Flight_Logbook_4.pdf
J A Critchley_timeline

J_A_Critchley_timeline.pdf
Audrey Simpson: Her Early Life

Audrey_Simpson_Her_Early_Life.docx
Alamein_A tribute to all who fought_(c)_2016

Alamein_Chris_Johnstone_Interview_2016.pdf
Alamein_Extracts of a Memoir_CJ interview

Alamein__Extracts_of_a_Memoir_CJ_Interview_2016.pdf
Letter from Father re-his brother's death.

Handwritten_2026-04-05_132913.pdf
Letter to parents_11 July 1919

Handwritten_2026-04-05_135949.pdf
Memorial Dedication Speech_WGCDR Colreavy

WGCDR_Colreavy__Coastal_Command_Memorial_Dedication_Speech.pdf
Nieppe, France. 18 April 1918. A Company Headquarters of the 7th Battalion, established in an old shooting box in the Forest of Neippe, in Northern France. A week earlier on the arrival of the 1st Division at Hazebrouck from the Somme, the Germans were already commencing to penetrate the Forest of Nieppe immediately east of the town. The 7th Battalion, with some of the 1st Pioneer Battalion and a company of machine gunners, pushed through Nieppe Forest, north of La Motte Chateau, and dug in on the north-eastern edge, in touch with the British rearguards. The Australian line, when completed, ran down from Strazeele to the Wood, where it linked up with the British Guards and the 29th Division. The Germans attacked in force on the 14th, but were repulsed; they renewed the attack in the evening, but failed. They never attacked again on these positions.
Oscar Baumans Medal Set: 1914/15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal

Oscar Baumann's medals: 194/15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal
German POWs captured by Allied Forces in 1942 at El Alamein. AWM 044985.

German POWs captured by Allied Forces in 1942 at El Alamein. AWM 044985.
Stanley COUSENS
December 1942 - 10 (Sunderland) Squadron RAAF based at RAF Station Mount Batten, Plymouth, England operating with Coastal Command in the Battle of the Atlantic. 260608 Flight Lieutenant Harold Graham Pockley.
December 1942 - 10 (Sunderland) Squadron RAAF based at RAF Station Mount Batten, Plymouth, England operating with Coastal Command in the Battle of the Atlantic. 260287 Flight Lieutenant Raymond Stanley Rice.
December 1942 - 10 (Sunderland) Squadron RAAF based at RAF Station Mount Batten, Plymouth, England operating with Coastal Command in the Battle of the Atlantic. 408662 Pilot Officer Malcolm Keith McKenzie.
December 1942 - 10 (Sunderland) Squadron RAAF based at RAF Station Mount Batten, Plymouth, England operating with Coastal Command in the Battle of the Atlantic. 477 Flight Lieutenant Reginald William Marks.
October 1942 – Milne Bay, Papua. Unites States Officer (in jeep) and 0326 Air Commander William Henry Garing, RAAF, standing beside jeep at the Gurney Airstrip on a section covered with metal airstip matting.
A US C47 Dakota conducts a supply drop at Nauro Village. Supplies were free dropped and suffered high loss rates on impact, and being lost in trees and swamps, leading to an overestimation of supplies stockpiled forward. Mde worse when a Japanese air raid took out most of the available C47s at Port Moresby.
Men of the 39th Battalion's D Company make their way along the track in the course of their delaying defence. From right to left: Warrant Officer 2 R. Marsh, Privates G. Palmer, J. Manol, J. Tonkins, A. Forrester, and Gallipoli veteran Staff Sergeant J. Long.....AWM 013288
Australian soldiers with captured Japanese weapons including the dreaded 75mm mountain gun
The Australians of the 16th Brigade assemble near Eora Creek in the Owen Stanley Ranges for an attack on Japanese positions near Kokoda. These men at least have Bren Guns, but supply problems thwarted the attempt to retake Kokoda and instead the epic defence of Isurava was conducted.
Corporal Jim Canty was one of the heavily out-numbered heroes of the 39th Australian Infantry Battalion who blocked the passage of Japanese troops along the Kokoda Track, until relieved by the 16th Brigade.
I could see no chance of getting back home as I often heard the noise of the guns coming nearer and nearer after us. We passed Manari and on and on, getting up at 4AM every day and started the journey fearing of aeroplanes. At Efogi they were short of soldiers and got us to help them carry the guns. I thought of a way to hide from the Japanese and meet the Australians, but I had no chance… things went on like this until we reached Kokoda. Fred Boski, excerpt of diary AWM2020.8.1464. Conscripted by the Japanese as a porter, he fled and joined the Australians.
Hampered by a lack of any heavy weapons in the early phases of the campaign, the arrival of the 'Short' 25 pounder gun, a heavily modified version of the original produced by the Australian Ordnance factories in quick time, at last gave the Australians overmatch for the Japanese 75mm mountain gun, later in the campaign. But not without a lot of physical effort by the gunners.
Victor Hill RAAF 1941-45 James St
George Ash 27th Infantry Battalion 1941-45
Bob Buss Militia and AIF service 1941-45
Anthony Gerrard Cousins CMAERON RAN 1941-46
Bernard Davey - died a Prisoner of Japan in Borneo Feb 1945
Colin Richardson at the controls of a Cessna Crane at Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada, 1943
Alfred Batty 2nd/6th Field Ambulance 1941-45
Colin Richardson at the controls of a Cessna Crane at Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada, 1943
Colin Richardson at the controls of a Cessna Crane at Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada, 1943
Memorial plaque for the crew of 630 Sqn Lancaster LE-Z tail number ND 949, lost near Foxleigh UK 9 April 1945
Arthur Andrewartha Army () 1942-45
Anthony Gerrard Cousins CMAERON RAN 1941-46
Bernard Davey - died a Prisoner of Japan in Borneo Feb 1945
Distinguished Conduct Medal, 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Victor Hill RAAF 1941-45 James St
Ernest Joseph Grunert, RAN 1940-45
John Auld 19 Infantry Training Battalion 1941-45
Alfred Batty 2nd/6th Field Ambulance 1941-45
Horace ('Jack') Buss served in the Militia and the AIF in WW2
Horace ('Jack') Buss served in the Militia and the AIF in WW2
Horace ('Jack') Buss served in the Militia and the AIF in WW2
William Croxton 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion WW2 1940-45
Ronald Custance RAAF 1944-45
Ronald Custance RAAF 1944-45

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