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Australia

his rare colour photo shows P/O Orme and his crew back at Watton after a successful attack on shipping off the Dutch coast, 18th August 1941, just 10 days before they were lost in this same aircraft V6436 YH-L. P/O Orme can be seen climbing from the cockpit, behind him are two members of his ground crew, next to them wearing his Officers cap is P/O Gunnis, and far right on top of the fuselage is F/O Collins. (L. Gover)

Ground crew from 451 and 452 Squadrons at RAF Matlaske May 1945

Bede DOWD at about the time of his enlistment

Members of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company excavating at Hooge, in the Ypres Sector. Work on these dugouts constituted a record for Tunnelling Companies employed under such conditions, for the ground, in close proximity to the famous Hooge Crater, was a shell churned marsh and soakage was heavy. Accommodation was dug for two Brigades and Headquarters of one Machine Gun Company. Commenced on 5 June 1917, the task was completed and dugouts handed over to the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Brigades on 19 September, for the use of the troops engaged in the operation of the following day. Identified, foreground, left to right: two unidentified members of the 56th Battalion; 5488 Sapper (Spr) C. G. Allcock (third from left, looking at camera); unidentified member of the 56th Battalion (working with Allcock). Background, left to right: 5529 Spr H. J. Edmonds; 5374 Second Corporal E. S. Sherrin (resting against sandbags); 3688 Spr J. Tither; 3363 Spr J. E. Rimmer (pushing upright cart); 5380 Spr J. W. Mcdonough (second from right); 5555 Spr J. J. Horne (extreme right).

Lieutenant Leonard Gurner, 60th Infantry Battalion AIF

Lieutenant Gladys Hughes, a survivor of the Vyner Brooke sinking, captured as a PoW died just three months from war's end in May 1945 from the effects of disease ill treatment and mal-nourishment.

A 21 Squadron Liberator A72-92, lost on27 July 1945. It had perviously flown with 7 OTU, 24 and 25 Squadrons. Seven of the crew were lost

RH Panel Image 002 - Corporal Frank Allchin

QX10333 CPL Athol 'Ned' Bayly - Crossing the equator certificate on the way to Middle East aboard the Queen May

Consolidated Catalina Mark I, AH562 'AX-', of No, 202 Squadron RAF, anchored at Gibraltar after an anti-submarine patrol

Seconded to Hawkers to continue his test pilot duties, F/L Richard C "Dickie" Reynell was attached to No 43 Squadron RAF for operational experience at RAF Tangmere on 26 August 1940. After claiming an Me 109 destroyed on 2 September, the 28-year-old Australian was shot down 5 days later, in combat with enemy fighters over south London. Bailing out of Hurricane Mk I FT-F, wounded, his parachute failed to open and he fell dead near Blackheath.

SA State Library PRG 280/1/29/73 Mounted soldiers of the South Australian Light Horse Regiment on parade for a Colour Presentation ceremony at Morphettville racecourse, South Australia

Forest-sur-Marque communal cemetery near Lille, France

William Smith's trench art

1914/15 Star 22919 War Memorial 18924 Victory Medal 18855

The first 10th Battalion Headquarters at Anzac, taken soon after the landing. Reading from left to right the Officers are - Captain (Capt) Harry Carew Nott (RMO) Capt Francis Maxwell Lorenzo, Major Frederick William Hurcombe, and Lieut-Col S Price Weir, DSO, VD and Mention in Despatches.

1617 Richard Abel, 47th Battalion, and his sons 1619 Richard James Abel and 1618 Sydney Clement Abel. Father and Sons all volunteers.

AE2 at sea travelling at speed on the surface

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Enid Mundy, Airforce, 1941- 1946.

The No. 18 Squadron disbandment parade

Spr John Frederick BOARDMAN 6393

Markham Valley, New Guinea. 1943-09-05. Screened by dense smoke, paratroopers of 503 US Paratroop Infantry Regiment and Gunners of 2/4th Australian Field Regiment with their 25 pounders land unopposed at Nadzab, during the advance of 7th Australian Division on Lae.

Informal portrait of the crew of a Lancaster bomber of 467 Squadron RAAF prior to a night mission. Identified, left to right: 1352851 Sergeant (Sgt) Eric Reginald Hill, RAF, mid upper gunner of Weald, Essex; 423311 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Gilbert Firth Pate, RAAF, rear gunner of Belmore, NSW; 1350279 Sgt Kenneth Harold Tabor, RAF, flight engineer; 425413 Flt Sgt Alistair Dale Johnston, RAAF, wireless operator, of Melbourne, Vic; 400495 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Donald Philip Smeed Smith, DFC, RAAF, pilot of Melbourne, Vic; 412686 Warrant Officer Royston William Purcell, RAAF, navigator of Werris Creek NSW; 658844 Flt Sgt Jeremiah Parker, RAF, bomb aimer of England. The aircraft pictured is most likely the Lancaster Mark III bomber LM475 (PO-B). This was the usual aircraft flown by the crew listed above which crashed whilst on a mission over Lille, France, on 10 May 1944, of which only the pilot, Sqn Ldr Smith survived. Two weeks prior to this mission, bomber pilots were authorised to wear seat-type parachutes instead of the standard backpack that was stored in the plane and only hooked in case of need. This most likely saved Sqn Ldr Smith's life; on landing by parachute he made his way cross-country through France and Switzerland, and back to England several months later.

Another map minus unit dispositions but more clearly displaying key locations within the defensive perimeter

The Boer War Memorial in Pietersburg

3697 PTE Patrick Weir 3rd Pioneer Battalion

Captain Henry Samuel COPE MC, 43rd Battalion RH#16

Stanley Holm Watson - from an image on the Railways Memorial Adelaide Railway Station Concourse.

5111 Pte Thomas HIRD

No. 467 Squadron's 'S for Sugar' being bombed up at Waddington Yorkshire. This redoubtable airframe survived the war having completed 132 missions. It is reserved in the RAF Museum at Hendon near London.

Sunderland and Catalina flying boats of RAF Coastal Command at Castle Archdale in Northern Ireland, January 1945. The big freeze. Nearly all the aircraft on strength with three Coastal Command squadrons are visible here, drawn up out of the water at Castle Archdale in Northern Ireland as Logh Erne froze over in January 1945. More than 30 aircraft can be seen, including Sunderlands of No's 201 and 423 RCAF Squadrons and No 202 Squadron's Catalinas.

Group portrait of members of the "Victorian Left Batt Company. Australian Imperial Naval and Military Tropical Force". Back row, left to right: 141 Private (Pte) Richard Elvin Exelby; 130 Pte George Fredericks; Pte Charles John Darkin; 146 Pte Charles Lott; 128 Pte Frederick Wilkins; J Jackson and 145 Pte Jacob Coote. Second row: 147 Pte Robert Boyle Smith; 129 Pte Richard Barker; 960 Sergeant (Sgt) Alfred John Grace; 138 Sgt Nathaniel Hart; 133 Pte Athel Ludgater Stark (died in Australia on 24 January 1918) and 134 Pte Samuel Henry Rice. Front row: 139 Corporal Arnold Mercer Davies; 137 Pte A V (Victor Alfred) Chiron and 136 Pte Eugene Charles Chiron. Pte Stark

HMAS Bataan, a destroyer, off the Korean Peninsula. The destroyer is seen here engaged in receiving a jackstay transfer from the Royal Navy carrier HMS OCEAN. It is sufficiently clear to show the late Commander Warwick Gracegirdle, RAN - BATAAN 's Korean War CO - on the bridge. This photo is taken off Korea, and the destroyer in the background is HMS CONSORT. Photo: Photographer unknown, the image was published in 1986 for the RAN's 75th Anniversary celebrations. The image is held in the Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial, image ID 300378, listed copyright expired, public domain. It has also been posted on an InvisionFree ship modeller's blog. These are the AWM's descriptive notes that accompany the image: KOREA. ELEVATED PORT SIDE VIEW SHOWING DETAIL OF THE FORWARD PART OF THE DESTROYER HMAS BATAAN (EX-HMAS KURNAI) (D191) AS SHE RECEIVES PERSONNEL BY HIGHLINE FROM THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS OCEAN. NOTE FORWARD TWIN 4.7 INCH MK XII GUNS IN CP XIX MOUNTINGS, WITH THE BREECHES OF B MOUNTING PROMINENT AND THE 40 MM BOFORS AA GUN IN THE PORT BRIDGE WING. BEHIND THE BRIDGE ARE THE DIRECTOR CONTROL TOWER AND RANGEFINDER TOWER MK II WITH A TYPE 285 FIRE CONTROL RADAR MOUNTED UPON THE LATTER. NOTE ROPE STOWAGE IN THE BLAST SCREEN FORWARD OF B MOUNTING AND CARLEY FLOATS BY THE FORWARD SUPERSTRUCTURE WITH PADDLES NEATLY ARRAYED. THE SCREENING DESTROYER IN THE BACKGROUND IS HMS CONSORT. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

Sketch map, the action at Isurava, 29 August 1942

FSGT Len Henderson in the rear turret of Lancaster JO-K - later lost on 7 Dec 1944

Robert Stanley PILLAR's headstone Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney

R237 ADDEMS Percival Edward 2333

417812 Flight Sergeant Ronald Irving Cummings (3rd from right - back row)

Portrait of 437282 Flight Sergeant (later Pilot Officer) Norman George Steer of Prospect, SA, Pilot (left), and 434107 Flying Officer Basil Trevor Roberts of Townsville, Qld, Navigator. They formed a ship-busting crew flying Beaufighter aircraft with RAAF 455 Squadron operating out of RAF Langham station, UK. On 15 October 1944, their aircraft ditched into the sea after attacking enemy trawlers off Norway. Only the body of FO Roberts was recovered, and he is buried in the Risor Civil Cemetery on the south coast of Norway

7024 Gordon Alexander LAING RH#24

Three B24 Heavy Bombers of 7 OTU on a training flight in southern NSW in 1944/45