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Harry Crockers grave at Pheasant Wood

Bellicourt Cemetery

Men of an Anti Tank Company at Tobruk; The 2nd/3rd Anti Tank Regiment and the 24th and 26th Anti Tanl Companis served at Tobruk.

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.

The SA Police WW1 Service Honour Roll

The Bullecourt Digger - the famous bronze statue of a digger looking across the Bullecourt battlefield from the town cemetery. Steve Larkins colelction

A Spitfire Mk XIV in the colours of No. 91 Sqn summer of 1944

938 Private William George SYMS

429369 FO Richard Rodney (Rod) Young, 463 Sqn RAAF. FO Thomas wrote on the back of the image "Out for a ride in the sunny English Country in summer. At Church Broughton, Derbyshire, July 1944".

Signage indicating the location of Bancourt British Cemetery

“Blood, Sweat and Fears” ISBN: 978-0-64692-750-3 Medical Practitioners and Medical Students of South Australia who served in WW1

This image is of a soldier from the 10th battalion at Mena Camp, Egypt playing with a kangaroo, which was the regimental mascot. The soldiers in the background are from the 9th and 10th Battalions, and they are looking towards the pyramids.

845, Jack Reginald KENYON, of Prospect SA

Military Medal

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

An Australian patrol lays up in an anti-tank ditch near the perimeter of the Australian defences around Tobruk. AWM 020779 . This appears to be a posed photo as the men are carrying no visible equipment or ammunition pouches and only their weapons (SMLE .303 rifles and .45 calibre Thompson sub machine guns). The term anti tank ditch seems ambitious as its hard to see that ditch causing any delay to a tank moving at speed.

Vietnam War Memorial, Adelaide, South Australia

3342 Private Harry Lincoln BROOKS of the 27th Battalion

Sgt Bert Smyth, 3rd Battalion

William Smith's trench art

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Jack Deacon, Army, 1941-1946. City of West Torrens

Pte Bert Smythe

Studio group portrait of officers of the 27th Battalion. Standing, from left: Lieutenant (Lt) Gordon Campbell Church; Lt James Bichan MacLean; Lt Joseph Otto Julge; Captain (Capt) Percy Gordon Bice. Seated: Lt John Henry Mitchell; Major William Pendennis Devonshire DSO; Lt Claude Cyril John McCann MC; Capt Percy Emil Julge MC and Bar. Inscription reads "To Dear Old Mum. With Best Love From Cyril McCann." One of a collection of portraits, mostly of officers of the 27th Battalion, sent to 'Mum' (presumably Mrs Cotching) during and after the First World War at Cotching, Son & Co's 'The Farm' on Ealing Common near London, where servicemen stayed whilst on leave.

429369 Flying Officer (FO) Richard Rodney (Rod) Young, 463 Sqn RAAF, of West Maitland, NSW at the controls of 'H' for How, about to depart on a raid on the Dortmund-Emms Canal in Germany. Just three weeks later he was flying JO-K when it was lost over Giessen, Germany

Captain Graham Growden, 10th Battalion RSAR 1986, at the Dean Rifle Range, Osborne

Australian delegates at the Japanese surrender ceremony on board USS Missouri. Left to right: (back row) Captain J. Balfour; Lieutenant Colonel D. H. Dwyer; Air Vice Marshal G. Jones; Lieutenant General F. H. Berryman; Commodore J. A. Collins. Front row: Rear Admiral G. Moore; General Sir Thomas Blamey (who signed for Australia) and Air Vice Marshal W. D. Bostock.

Possibly one of the most recognised photos of the AIF on the Western Front. Lieutenant Rupert Frederick Arding Downes MC addresses his Platoon from B Company, 29th Battalion on 8 August 1918 during a rest before the advance onto Harbonnieres, the battalion's second objective. They are near the villages of Warfusee and Lamotte, France. The background of the photograph is obscured by the smoke of heavy shellfire. Many of the men pictured were killed in action or died of wounds or disease in the days and weeks after the photograph was taken, being amongst the last Australian deaths during the First World War. Each man has a story. Pte Towers (fourth from right), for example, was a farm labourer of Cootamundra, NSW, who later transferred to the 32nd Battalion. He was admitted to the Abbeville Hospital on 9 November 1918 suffering broncho-pneumonia where he died on 11 November 1918.

AWM P04630.001

"We have not forgot you Cobber" inscription on 1036 Pte Samuel RIDLER's grave at Pheasant Wood Cemetery, Fromelles

Australian Army Nursing Sisters Ellen Keats and Elizabeth Pyman. Ellen Keats was evacuated from Singapore on the ill-fated SS VYner Brooke and was murdered by her Japanese captros at Banka Island. Sister Pyman was more fortunate being evacuated on another ship and returning safely to Australia

A Boulton-Paul Defiant of 153 Squadron in daylight colour scheme clearly showing the aircraft's most distinctive feature - the four gun turret. While initially conferring a tactical advantage, its weight later proved an insurmountable handicap. Image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Mk1_Defiant.jpg

Prowse Point Cemetery taken from its neighbour Mud Corner

The grave pf Private Edward Burney 32nd Battalion at Pheasant Wood Cemetery Fromelles

Two soldiers of the Supply Depot, 1st Australian Division, with boxes of corned beef and canned meat and water cans, Anzac Cove, 1915. Image Australian War Memorial.

Sergeant Nancie Dod on arrival in Lae New Guinea 1945

Vincent Armstrong's grave at West Terrace AIF Cemetery

A 144 Squadron taken during the D Day operations phase at Davidstow in Cornwall

Service Medals of P/O James RENNO, DFM