Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

No 156 Squadron May 1943 at RAF Warboys, CO WCDR Rivett-Carnac

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 Bristol Beaufort a light bomber in which Jack Reed flew

RH Panel Image #3 - Private Robert John Penny

Informal group portrait of RAF ground staff with RAAF and Royal New Zealand Air Force air crew of a Mitchell bomber squadron, 180 Squadron RAF with the Second Tactical Air Force. Left to right: two RAF ground crew, Jock (Fitter) and Alf (Rigger); 422248 Flying Officer (FO) Jack B O'Halloran, pilot of Sydney, NSW, (later Flight Lieutenant and DFC); 417379 Pilot Officer James Crosby (Jim) Jennison (later Flying Officer and DFC) of Adelaide, SA; 422175 FO Reg J Hansen of Sydney, NSW; FO Harry M Hawthorn, RNZAF of Hastings, NZ. The aircraft was lettered D and the pilot named it 'Daily Delivery' and the nose art illustration portrays a stork carrying a large bomb. RAF Dunsfold Surrey UK C263114

Group portrait of twelve NCO‘s of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service relaxing at the 2/7th General Hospital, Australian Army Medical Corps, after the march past ceremony and prior to taking up postings to the 2/7 or the 2/8 Australian General Hospitals. 1. NFX201487 (NX201487) Corporal (Cpl) Jean Pynor; 2. NFX202015 (NX202015) Cpl Eileen Everett Lloyd; 3. NFX174883 (NX174883) Cpl Thelma Maxwell Lawless; 4. NX130961 (N409388) Sergeant (Sgt) Marie Therese Bouffler; 5. VX112622 Sgt Jean Hamilton Baird; 6. VX121486 (V501002) Cpl Eleanor Mary Birchall; 7. VX112994 Sgt Sheila Florence Mathers; 8. VFX126851 Cpl Laura Alma Lawson; 9. NF451738 Cpl Nancye Joan Brierley; 10. VX91145 Cpl Patricia Lock; 11. NX148139 (N410205) Sgt Alice Mary Murray; 12. NX169975 Cpl Elsie Seccombe.

Harry Crockers grave at Pheasant Wood

MID Medal Set: British War Medal, Victory Medal (with oak leaf symbolising Mentioned In Dispatches)

AWM caption : FOULSHAM, ENGLAND. 1945. 'JANE' (NO. MZ913), A HANDLEY PAGE HALIFAX B MARK III AIRCRAFT 'N' OF NO. 462 SQUADRON RAAF. THE BOMBER FLEW OVER 100 TRIPS AND WAS USED IN THE FIRST OPERATIONS OF THE SQUADRON. IT WAS FINALLY CONSIGNED TO THE WRECKERS IN CARDIFF, WALES ON 1945-05-04. NO 462 SQUADRON HALIFAX AIRCRAFT HAD VERTICAL YELLOW STRIPES ON THEIR TAIL FINS FOR IN FLIGHT IDENTIFICATION.

3190 Private Kenneth Morton KNOX 50th Battalion

Willaston Cemetery Grave of parents

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

Short ‘Empire’, VH-ABB ‘Coolangatta’ of QANTAS. Impressed by RAAF as A18-13 and allocated to 11 Squadron RAAF. It was returned to QANTAS on 13 July 1943, but crashed in Sydney Harbour on 11 October 1944.

MEMBERS OF 2/2 FIELD REGIMENT, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY, LOADING THE 155MM M1 "LONG TOM" BEFORE FIRING ONTO THE JAPANESE POSITIONS 14,600 YARDS AWAY. THE SHELL WEIGHS 95 POUNDS.

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,

John Leslie HOPPING of Caltowie

3994 Private Frederick William TRENDELL

Photograph of PTE 68 Wesley Paul Choat MM in Britain in 1918 after escaping. AWM image: P03236.156.

SX2663 Private Edward Ernest SMITH

Herbert Kernot's ID discs

Walter WIlloughby HOSKING

AWM Caption: Coomalie, NT. 21 March 1945. Returning to their North Western Australia base are 402733 Pilot Officer Allan Davies of Wentworth Falls, NSW (left) and his navigator 439909 Flying Officer J. S. Reynolds of North Sydney, NSW. They have their hands full with an aircraft camera, magazine and navigation data as they leave their De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito aircraft of No. 87 (Photograph Reconnaissance Flight) Squadron RAAF.

PORTRAIT OF 1388 CORPORAL WALTER HENRY FRAME (MM AND BAR), 21ST FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE (SEATED, LEFT) WITH HIS BROTHER GEORGE FRAME, MEMBER OF A BRITISH ARTILLERY UNIT.

THE STAFF OF THE DENTAL SECTION, 105 CASUALTY CLEARING STATION. IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE:- CPL F. JAMES (1); STAFF SERGEANT C.H. FERRIS (2); CAPT W.J. STONEY (3); PTE C.F.W. SPAR (4).

William Smith's trench art

Group portrait of the original officers of the 10th Battalion, still in their variety of militia uniforms - barely any two are dressed exactly the same. Left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Julius August William Kayser (later Major, killed in action in France on 16 February 1917); Lieutenant (Lt) Clarence Rumball; Lt Louis Gordon Holmes; Lt Trevor Owen-Smyth (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 6 May 1915); Captain (Capt) Sydney Raymond Hall (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915); Lt John Hamilton (later Capt); Lt Alfred Cyril Sommerville; Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) David Leslie Todd (later Capt); and Lt Albert John Bryne (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915). Middle row: Lt Mervyn James Herbert (later Major ); Lt Keith Eddowes Green (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915); Lt Robert James Mansfield Hooper (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 27 May 1915); Lt Eric John Carl Stopp; Lt Hector Roy Heming; Lt Eric Wilkes Talbot Smith, (later died of wounds in Egypt on 30 April 1915); Lt Herbert Champion Hosking; and Capt Harold William Hastings Seager (later Maj and awarded MC). Front row: Lt Eric James Sexton (later Maj); Capt George Dorricutt Shaw (later Maj); Maj Miles Fitzroy Beevor (later Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col)); Capt Harry Carew Nott (Medical Officer) (later Lt Col); Maj Frederick William Hurcombe, Second in Charge (2IC later Lt Col and MID); Colonel Stanley Price Weir (Commanding Officer, later awarded DSO); Capt Francis Maxwell de Flayer Lorenzo (Adjutant later Lt Col and awarded DSO); Capt Charles Francis Minagall (Quartermaster, later Maj); Capt Edward Castle Oldham (later Maj and killed in action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915); Capt Ross Blyth Jacob (later Lt Col); and Lt Vernon Hermann Robley Absent: Lt William Stanley Frayne, (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 6 August 1915); Lt Charles Percy Farrier (later killed in action at Gallipoli); Lt Felix Giles (later Lt Col); 2nd Lt Noel Medway Loutit (later Lt Col); Lt William Howard Perry (later Capt and awarded MC); and Captain George Ernest Redburg (later Maj).

Vietnam War Memorial, Adelaide, South Australia

Japanese pilots of the Japanese Navy Tainan Air Group assigned to New Guinea from February 1942 - Saburo Sakai seated middle row second from left - one of the top Japanese Ace of the war who in 1997 lobbied the Australian Government to recognise Warren Cowan's actions on 1942. Standing top row left is PO1/c Hiroyoshi Nishizawa who went on to become the top Japanese Ace. He was killed as a passenger in a transport aircraft over the Philippines in 1944. Sakai survived the war having lost an eye over Guadalcanal. He passed away in 2000.

Burra School Detachment of Commonwealth Cadets. At least seventeen of the cadets later participated in World War I, teacher in charge Adolph Lott (later Major Lott). Back row: Lance Tiver; Dick Bennetts; G. Burns; H. Fuss; H. Davey; Laurie Clode. Second row: Vern Riggs; Lindsay Page; Andrew Pearce; Ross Harris; Perce Herbert; Guy Tiddy; Clem Tiver; Essen Rule. Third row: Lindsay McBride; Harold Neville; Bob Crewes; Adolf Lott; Colin Taplin; Colin Scott; Harry Davey; Arthur Harris; Darcy Lowe. Front row: Joe Pascoe; Rodney Woollacott; Dick Ockenden; Bob Bartholomaeus; Lesley Carey; Gordon Shortridge

Three brothers, Private Theo Leslie Seabrook (left), 2 Lieutenant William Keith Seabrook (centre) and Private George Ross Seabrook (right) of Fivedock, New South Wales, Australia were all serving with 17 Battalion, Australian Infantry when they were killed together at Polygon Wood in the Ypres Salient on 20 - 21 September 1917. At the time of their deaths, George was aged 25, Theo was aged 24 and William was aged 21. Theo and George are commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres while William is buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.

Eric Abraham, Howard Pope, Charlie Mance Ted Smout at the internment of PTE Russell Bosisto, Courcelette Cemetery

Group portrait of trainee pilots of No 1 Flying Training School A Course, January to October 1939. Left to right, back row: 467 Robert Thomas Trigg of Sale, Vic, (later 32 Squadron (Sqn) RAAF, died 6 July 1942); Robert John Ohlmeyer of Clare, SA, (later 3 Sqn RAAF, died 23 November 1939);M L 'Buck' Judell; Edwin Hooper Sargeant; E H Williams; John Henry William Saunders (later 3 Sqn RAAF, died 22 November 1941); Kevin Ansell Goman of Perth, WA (later 23 Sqn RAAF, died 29 May 1940); 484 Brian Leighton Bracegirdle; 475 Robert George Arnold of Lameroo, SA (died 18 January 1942); 467 John Thomas O'Brien; 468 Geoffrey Thompson Newstead of Renmark, SA; W C Ring; 457 Geoffrey William Coventry (later Sqn Leader and Commanding Officer 11 Sqn RAAF, died 2 May 1944); 250499 Herbert Alexander Gamble. Second row: 485 Reginald Lloyd Gordon (later 31 Sqn RAAF, died 27 February 1944); 481 Peter St George Bruce Turnbull (died 27 August 1942); 456 Lindsay Eric Shaw Knowles of Canberra, ACT (later 3 Sqn RAAF, died 22 November 1941); 465 Kevin Herbert Springbett of SA; 470 John Couper Black; 388 Patrick John McMahon; 472 William Eldridge Willard of Sydney, NSW (later 31 Sqn RAAF, died 30 August 1943); 394 Garth Tetley Miles; 3107 Vernon Francis Wilfred Sullivan of Carlton, Vic; 482 John William Kessey of Hamilton, NSW; G L Thurston; R H Thompson; B M H Palmer. Front row: 477 Reginald William Marks; 480 Desmond Charles Pfeiffer; 477 Edwin St Clair Yeoman of Camberwell, Vic (later 10 Sqn RAAF, died 8 August 1942); 390 David Vernon of Lane Cove, NSW; James Norman Alexander of Randwick NSW (later 1 Aircraft Depot (1AD), died 15 January 1940); 391 Athol Galway Hope Wearne of WA; 305 James Cecil Stevenson of Grafton, NSW (later Wing Commander, 1AD, died on 1 December 1942); 3229 Allan Lindsay May of Malvern, Vic (later 1AD, died 10 May 1940); 463 Victor Allan Hodgkinson; 483 Arthur Wichelo Nichols of Wagin, WA; 387 Hugh Augustine Conaghan; 474 Robert Andrew Kirkman; 455 Charles Edwin Cox.

MILLETT, Reginald Wellington

NF462502 Gunner Norma Vesta MEAKIN's headstone at Rookwood War Cemetery

Brian Grasby's Basic Training Course at Mt Brecon, Victor Harbor, SOuth Australia

PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND. 1943-01-29. PORTRAIT OF 477 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT R. W. MARKS, FLIGHT COMMANDER, NO. 10 (SUNDERLAND) SQUADRON RAAF AT RAF STATION MOUNT BATTEN.

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).

Far and away: The young Private Bill Cassidy spent five of the eight years of his marriage away at war.

Portrait of Captain J. A. COLLINS, June 1940 while Captain of of HMAS SYDNEY (II)

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Ernst Grunert, Ran,1940-1945.

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

Service Medals of P/O James RENNO, DFM

Military Medal notification

GRaves of the crew of 460 Squadron Lancaster lost here 13th June 1943