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Detail of Boer War Memorial. Ker's name is mis-spelled.

Chevillon, Haute Marne, France

427870 Bernard Francis CODY taken at enlistment 1942

418913 Flying Officer Norman Jack Bowman

WW2 RAAF Aircrew Europe post D Day 1944. L-R 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star (prior to DDay the Aircrew Europe Star was issued) , Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45

The 54th Siege Battery in action in support of the Third Ypres campaign in September 1917. The guns are 8 inch howitzers, the shells for which have been shipped in by light rail right to the gun position. This is one of a series of photographs taken by Official War Photographer Frank Hurley.

German POWs captured by Allied Forces in 1942 at El Alamein. AWM 044985.

HAMS Canberra Sydney Harbour 1929, dressed with flags and firing a salute. Note the Supermarine Walrus seaplane, belonging to and crewed by No. 9 Squadron RAAF.

Most of the crew of Lancaster LL847 JO-D of 463 Squadron. Sgt Henry Fowler RAF far left,P/OFF Robert Byrnes RAAF, FLGOFF Kenneth Bennett 3rd from left (pilot). three remaining men not yet identified. Missing from this group is James OGILVIE RAAF who is believed to have flown as a trainee second pilot on the night the aircraft was lost. From ADF Serials site 463 Sqn. 15/03/44 to 17/12/44, JO-D. ORBS record 94 missions. First flown by RAAF Pilot F/O J H Dechastel & crew who completed a tour of 32 missions 30 of them in LL847. Also RAAF Pilot F/O K P Brady & crew completed a tour of 30 missions 28 of them in LL847. The last mission on 17/18-Dec-1944 was flown by Pilot K E H Bennett RAAF, 2nd Pilot F/O J H Ogilvie RAAF, F/Engineer F/S R G Nuttall RAF, Nav F/S S Easton RAF, B/Aimer F/S T N Watson RAF, Wireless Op F/S R W Byrnes RAAF, MU Gunner Sgt G A C Frizzell RAF, Rear Gunner Sgt H Fowler RAAF. Brady's gunners shot down an ME109 on 28-Jul-1944 & the rear gunner shot down a Donier 217 on 29/30 Aug-1944. Bennett's gunners shot down a JU88 on the 6/7-Dec-1944 while it was attacking another Lancaster.

EUBOEA ISLAND, GREECE. 1941-05-08. OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 2/2ND AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION NEAR THE VILLAGE OF PILI ON THE EVE OF THEIR DEPARTURE FROM THE ISLAND IN THE AEGEAN SEA AFTER ESCAPING FROM THE MAINLAND OF GREECE. THEY EVENTUALLY REJOINED THE AUSTRALIAN FORCES VIA TURKEY. FRONT ROW L TO R, PTE J.A.E. WHITTON, L SGT R.C. SMITH, PTE H.R. BROWN, PTE W. SCHOFIELD; BACK ROW, PTE M.J. SANDERS, CPL J.W.H. FULLER, CPL H.J. HONEYWELL, LT COL FRED O. CHILTON, CAPT CHARLES HERCULES GREEN, CAPT BRUCE BROCK, LT A.K. BOSGARD, CAPT A.A. BUCKLEY, CPL J. SHANAHAN.

AWM Collection The Banner borne by men of the 5th Machine Gun Battalion in Sydney until 1973 when the banner was retired and donated to the AWM

1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Detail of hte Memorial - the Statue and east facing plaque - the front of the Memorial

WW1 post 31 Dec 1915 embarkation: L-R Military Cross, British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Group portrait of RAAF members of No 1 Course, Empire Air Training Scheme in Ottawa, Canada. Of 38 trainees, 17 were KIA (of those 9 in 1941 alone) and a further 8 were PoW, a graphic illustration of the harrowing odds for bomber crews. These were the first Australian trainee pilots sent on the scheme. After each trainee's name is noted his rank, awards and fate, obviously at a date subsequent to this photograph. Identified are: 407071 Richard Lyndon Barrett (Sergeant, killed 30 June 1941 on operations over Germany); 407072 John Miller Bishop (Flying Officer); 400024 Thomas Raymond Breheny (Flying Officer); 408000 George Maxwell Briggs (Pilot Officer, killed 10 May 1942 on operations over Malta); 400025 Robert Balmain Campbell (Flying Officer, killed 23 July 1941 on operations over the North Sea); 406004 Selwyn McKenzie Clark (Flight Lieutenant, DFC); 407041 Montague Charles Carrington Cotton (Squadron Leader, DFC); 400051 Ronald Gustave Damman (Sergeant, Prisoner of War (POW)); 407018 Robert Lindsay Davies (Pilot Officer); 402000 Frederick Agnew Vance Drummond (Sergeant, died 8 May 1941 in an accident in Scotland); 400054 Patrick Field (Sergeant, killed on operations over the Middle East); 402002 Clive Mayor Hall (Flight Lieutenant, POW); 408012 Philip Francis Grant Harbottle (Flying Officer, died 12 July 1942 in an accident in Queensland); 406027 Kenneth Marshall Hicks (Pilot Officer, killed 17 August 1941 on operations over France); 406012 Alexander McBride Kerr (Sergeant, POW); 407077 John Kinnane (Flying Officer killed 1 July 1941 on operations over Denmark, Mentioned in Despatches); 402048 George Lloyd (Flight Sergeant); 408001 Michael Mayne Maxwell (Flying Officer); 402004 Joseph Michael McCullough (Sergeant, killed 18 August 1941 on operations over the Middle East); 400044 John Philip McKechnie (Flight Lieutenant, POW, DFC); 404007 Eric William McLeod (Pilot Officer, died 25 March 1941 in an accident off Scotland); 402005 Allan Frank McSweyn (Flight Lieutenant, POW, MC); 407078 Ian Arthur Lace Milne (Sergeant, POW); 400045 David Knaggs Oak-Rhind (Pilot Officer, killed 21 May 1941 on operations over the English Channel); 400030 Eugene Hugh O'Neill (Squadron Leader, DSC, DFC); 400029 Laurance David Orbuck (Sergeant, killed 10 April 1942 on operations over Germany); 407079 William Ronald Phillips (Pilot Officer, killed 28 May 1941 on operations over United Kingdom); 402007 Alexander Cyffin Roberts (Flight Lieutenant, escaped POW, Mentioned in Despatches); 400031 Keith Edward Robinson (Flight Lieutenant, DFC, AFC, Polish Flying Badge); Ross (Sergeant, killed on operations over north west Europe); 407019 Maxwell Robert 402008 Arthur George Schwager (Flight Sergeant, killed on operations over the Middle East); 402041 Thomas William Scott (Flight Lieutenant); 407021 Frank Gemmel Sheppard (Flight Lieutenant); 400032 William John Shirtcliffe (Pilot Officer, died 25 February 1941 in an accident in United Kingdom); 402009 Eric Blair Tainton (Flight Lieutenant); 402011 Robert James Uhrig (Sergeant, died 10 April 1941 in an accident in United Kingdom); 400033 Ernest Valentine Walliker (Flight Lieutenant); 400048 Peter Frank Wilson (Flight Lieutenant); 407023 Francis Ainslie Wood (Flying Officer); 408003 Jack Steven Richards Woolnough (Flight Sergeant, died 17 January 1942 in an accident in United Kingdom).

3495A Gunner (Gnr) Harold Constantine 5th DAC

'He fell. The rest marched on to Victory. Ah my poor little son.' inscription on headstone gives an insight into the grief felt so far away.

Grave of 425413 FSGT Alistair Dale Johnston, the Wireless Operator of 467 Squadron Lancaster PO-B for 'Baker' on 10/11 May 1944

Buckingham Palace, London. C. 1943-06. Group portrait taken outside Buckingham Palace after the Queen's Investiture. Left to right 408076 Flight Sergeant T. D. Simpson DFM of Hobart, Tas; 406248 Pilot Officer C. L. Howard DFC of Perth, WA; 407729 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) D. J. Shannon DSO DFC of Bridgewater, SA; Wing Commander G. P. Gibson VC DSO and Bar DFC and Bar, RAF; 407074 Flt Lt R. C. Hay DFC and Bar of Malvern, SA; 402367 Flt Lt J. F. Leggo DFC and Bar of Lake Macquarie, NSW; Flt Lt H. B. Martin DSO DFC of Sydney, NSW, RAF; 407380 Pilot Officer F. M. Spafford DFC DFM of Wayville, SA. They were all decorated for the part they had played in the famous raid on the German dams, led by the Commanding Officer Wing Commander Gibson who was awarded the VC.

SX4193 Private SMART, Gilby Roy; 2nd/27th Battalion

A trench at Lone Pine on 8 August 1915. The scene captures something of the savagery of the action. Sergeant Apear de Vine, 4th Battalion, NSW, of Maroubra, Sydney, wrote of the dead: … they are stacked out of the way in any convenient place sometimes thrown up on to the parados so as not to block the trenches, there are more dead than living … [De Vine, quoted in Bill Gammage, The Broken Years, Ringwood, 1990, p 84]

The Vultee Vengeance single engine dive bomber which equipped 12 Squadron RAAF.

Bristol Beauforts at No. 1 Operational Training Unit, Bairnsdale, Victoria. Nearer camera: A9-102, 262097, Flying Officer Peter John Gibbes, DFC; A9-66, 377, Squadron Leader Cyril Clarence Williams.

A Halifax of 462 Squadron taken from the flight deck of another, with the Bristol Hercules radial engines that powered this variant (B Mk III) in detail. Earlier variants had been powered by the Rolls Royce Merlin V12 liquid cooled engines made famous by the Lancaster and Spitfire. The legendary Merlin was outclassed on the Halifax airframe by the Hercules which delivered better speed and ceiling performance. Paradoxically, the reverse was true on the Lancaster. The Halifax B Mk III was also characterised by larger rectangular vertical stabilisers compared to the smaller pointed fins of earlier variants that had lateral caused stability problems.

Plymouth, England. C. 1943. Portrait of Flight Lieutenant R. W. Marks of Norwood, SA, a Sunderland aircraft captain of No. 10 Squadron RAAF at RAF Station Mount Batten.

An Avro Lancaster Mk III of No. 50 Squadron late in the war - Squadron codes 'VN' clearly visible

Normandy, France. C. 1944-06. Spitfire aircraft of No. 453 Squadron RAAF, painted in black and white stripes, invasion markings, at dispersal at the edge of a barley field airstrip, ALG B.11, ready for operations over the Normandy battlefield.

Photographed during WW2 service

Group portrait of five Australian Soldiers from the 5th Divisional Ammunition Column. Left to right, back row: 3495A Gunner (Gnr) Harold Constantine; 1513 Gnr Allen Wylie Scott; Probably 2222 Driver James Thomas Sheehan. Front row: Gnr H Williams; 2603 Gnr Arthur Rayworth Davison, later killed on 20 August 1917.

No. 77 Driver Sidney John PENHALIGON -from the Queenslander 31 Oct 1914

S/No 424759 Flight Sergeant Stuart Lacey EDWARDS

Reginald 'Roy" Inwood, VC. His brother died alongside Arthur Blackburn at Pozieres. Roy Inwood became the 10th Battalion's second VC winner at Polygon Wood during the Third Ypres campaign in September 1917. His VC is on public display in the Adelaide Town Hall.

A.D. Whitehead shortly after enlistment

WW1 Distinguished conduct : L-R Distinguished Conduct Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Burnside Memorial to the Fallen at Rose Park SA

187 Private Joseph Raymond STEAD

G for George a tribute to all RAAF Aircrew who flew with RAF Bomber Command

Cecil Ronald "Ron" Weinert, Korea

One of the former 87 Squadron Mosquitos painted red privately registered and sponsored by AMPOOL ready for departure to London for an air race. It never made it crash landing in a swamp in Burma after a bad weather diversion.

Some of the Australians involved in the Dams Raid. Most were not to survive the War.

3294 PTE Leslie DOWDELL RH#11

North Africa Western Desert - A Tomahawk aircraft of No. 3 Squadron RAAF being re-armed before another sortie. Image made by George Silk

England. 1944-06-11. Group of aircrew at No. 180 squadron RAF. Left to right: 405107 Flying Officer (FO) W. Kirk, Brisbane, QLD (KIA 20 June 1944); 405054 FO B. W. Klemm, Brisbane, QLD; 415259 FO H. Hawthorn, Hastings, NZ; 417379 Flight Sergeant J. Jennison, Adelaide, SA; 422248 FO J. B. O'Halloran, Sydney, NSW; 422080 FO R. M. Kennard, Canberra, ACT.