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Bob McGhee was the founding president of Plympton RSL and served several terms.
Ray Pepper
Ray Pepper proudly wearing his service medals in later life
Walter Hamilton from a family wedding
Family funerary memorial at West Terrace Cemetery
The Chandada WW2 & District Memorial
1120 John Peter Pearce ARNOLDT 16th Infantry Battalion
Far right
View of Loxton from the Murray
1914-15 Star, British War medal, Victory Medal, British War Medal 39-45, Australian Service Medal 39-45
Loxton Historic Village attraction
Enlistment photo
Notes on the back of a photograph of his cycling mate, Arthur Lynch, KIA in the final stages of fighting in Singapore. He had been in the Army less than two months.
Aircraftman (later Flight Sergeant) William Schulz, 1943
Stern view of Goulburn before the launching ceremony. (AWM 004282)
Sgt Frederick 'Jos' COLLESS, who died as a PoW of Germany, from wounds received at the Battle of Fromelles, on 23 July 1916. One of a small group of Australians from both WW1 and WW2 interred in this cemetery.
FLTLT Mervyn Charles Shipard, DFC*
S7390 PTE Ralph Trevor ZWECK - taken from enlistment photograph
Norwood Memorial - Plaque
The grave of 424776 FSGT Keith Austen MASHMAN at Lille Southern cemetery
Citation for the award of the DFC to FOFF Tammy Simpson, FDC, DFM
Lyall Klaffer on posting to the the USA accumulated several records with the F4 Phantom that would later be adopted by the RAAF as an interim aircraft while the RAAF awaited delivery of the F111. He the attainment of 1,000 hours in the F4 is acknowledged with his USAF Navigator. He also flew the F4 on operations over Hanoi, the only RAAF pilot to do so, while on secondment.
An informal individual portrait of 04218 Pilot Officer L R (Lyall) Klaffer standing in a small garden outside the accommodation huts. Dressed in serge blue battle-dress uniform, he is also wearing the standard forage cap. This pilot is a member of 77 Squadron RAAF having been commissioned from his previous rank as Sergeant. He received a Mention in Despatches for his operational service in Korea.
Gerald 'Geoff' Cramer, in front of a Canberra Bomber of No.2 Squadron
49 Squadron crewmates at the wedding of Sergeant James Arthur Gerald Browne and Marjorie Ayers (arm in arm) at the Registry Office Edmonton Middlesex London on 7 December 1942. The airman are left to right, Flying Officer Frank Ridley (aged 21 on 31 January 1943); Sergeant James Arthur Gerald Browne (aged 25 on 31 January 1943); Flight Sergeant Llewellyn Grey (26 on 31 January 1943) and Flight Sergeant Roy Gould (who completed his tour of operations with 49 Sqn at end of October 1942 and lived well into his 90s dying in 2011). The women other than Marjorie Ayers are unidentified. All of the men with the exception of Roy Gould who had left the unit, were killed on 31 January 1943, when their aircraft crashed on approach to RAF Fiskerton returning from a raid. Only the mid-upper gunner survived the crash.
F?O John FREES (right of photo) with crew colleague, SGT Frank Evans RAFVR behind
Fort Scratchley, Newcastle, NSW. 1939. Group portrait of Fortress Company officers, taken in front of a casemate, the tower on the hill top (behind H. Davis) is the Battery Observation Post. Left to right, back row: Ron Thompson, Bill Scott-Fell; C. A. G. Davis; John Laffey; Tom Nicholson; Alf Toose; S. L. (Pip) Martin; Harold Howley; Harold Davis (Garrison Bn); Dick Ford; ? Mortensen; Norm Hely (Garrison Bn); Frank Thompson; Bob Atcheson. Front row: Fred Harden; Dick Mort; Major John Walter Main; Percy (Dobbie) Dobson (probably Captain Percy Walter Dobson, MC, who served in the First World War); Lieutenant Colonel F. V. Thompson (Garrison Bn); ? McMinn; Jack Manning (A. A.). Identification provided by Dick Mort. (Donor J. Main)
Latvian passport of 1920 Eduards Ābelskalns / Ābelkalns. LVVA Fund No. 2996 Apr 1; Case no. 794.
Sergeant (later Flying Officer) Ron Liversidge in the final stages of training before joining 186 Squadron
The last group along Alexandra Avenue numbered 31-50
Photo on Latvian passport, 1927, Latvian State Historical Archives
The plaque listing the first block of names heading west from the Statue, numbered 1-8 8 PTE W. G. ROBERTSON 7 SGT L. H. SANDO 6 PTE C. J. RICE NORTH 5 PTE U. M. KEELY 4 L.CPL J. S. DEANE 3 FARRIER A. KEELY 2 SGT H. E. CLARK 1 SGT A. C. HUNTER
The last marker heading north along Prescott Terrace, numbered 69-75, with number 76 blank for reasons unknown. It should be SGT Oscar E. Baumann lost at Fromelles in 1916. There is no similar marker for the names numbered 77-87; it is presumed to be because they were added after the consecration of the original trees in 1919. 76 (should be SGT O.E. BAUMANN) 75 PTE. A. F. D. ROBERTS 74 CAPT. H. F. HUBBE 73 CPL. D. R. BRADLEY 72 PTE. P. A. MAUNDER 71 PTE. N. C. LANE 70 GNR. W. E. RICHTER 69 PTE. H. ANTRAM
The 2nd/4th Battalions Plaque at the AWM
The 4th Battalion parade at the grave sites of the 14 men killed in a training accident. The burials in this site were later relocated to Perth General Cemetery
A view of Esbjerg Harbour
A view of the CWGC cemetery at Esbjerg in Denmark
A brochure distributed on the opening of the Memorial 4th September 1920
Cover of the History of 2 OTU

Cover of the History of 2 OTU
Wing Commander W.G. Leer of the R.A.A.F. poses in front of his caricature, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea, August 1, 1943. (Lockheed Hudson).
When the Boarding Party from HMAS Sydney reached the beached Emden, to recover the dead and wounded, they also recovered the Captain's safe, containing the ships imprest of funds for procuring fuel rations and so on . 6,429 Mexican Silver 8 Reales were found. One thousand of those coins were given to William Kerr jewellers, with the company commissioned to produce the Sydney-Emden Medal. Adorning each Mexican silver dollar with the King’s Crown in unison with superb scrolls, the jewellers created one of the most memorable decorations in military history.
Sydney transiting the Strait of Tiran at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba.
World War One Roll of Honour
The Magill Soldiers' Memorial Opening

The Magill Soldiers' Memorial Opening
Superimposed on the Barrage Plan this is the counter battery fire plan and reaches in front of the creeping barrage rolling towards the German rear areas in order to neutralise the 504 guns positions identified by British Artillery Intelligence.

Superimposed on the Barrage Plan this is the counter battery fire plan and reaches in front of the creeping barrage rolling towards the German rear areas in order to neutralise the 504 guns positions identified by British Artillery Intelligence.
An early course at No. 2 RAAF School of Technical Training in Canberra, 1941
Noel Eastwood served in the Army 1941-46

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