Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

During World War II, the airfield at Deniliquin was primarily a training base. From June 1941 until August 1944, 2206 pilots graduated from No 7 Service Flying Training School. As the end of the war neared, a number of operational units were moved to the base to be disbanded.

Nine members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 6RAR. By the end of Operation Bribie three of these young men were dead and five had been wounded. Only one emerged from the battle unscathed. Image courtesy of J. O'Halloran. [AWM P02452.002]

Private Leslie Robert Templeman

JEH Butler's name on last shell fired from Anzac Cove, 12 December 1915

Roy Hodgkinsons - war artist. Depicting an incident which happened whilst the artist was sitting on the beach at Oro Bay. Two Hudson's of the Royal Australian Air Force had taken off from Dobodura, with wounded and sick for general hospital. As soon as these planes were airbourne 14 Japanese Zeros first strafed the airship and then attacked the Hudsons, one of which shot down a Zero whilst the other was hotly chased by Zeros and eventually shot down, making a perfect belly landing on the sea. All patients were brought ashore safely with the exception of two stretcher cases who had been killed by Zero bullets. The rear gunner died from a wound in the lungs received during combat.

The best tunnelling conditions were in the great chalk seams running across northern France. Excavation generally had to be conducted with great care to conceal t he diggings and where in the proximity of enemy miners, to prevent detection by listening devices. Men of the 3rd Australian Company excavating a chamber in the chalk in the Hulluch subway system. The chalk was dug out with miners' picks and filled into bags. These bags were trucked along the gallery to suitable positions, hauled to the surface and emptied at night. In places where the chalk crumbled, the walls had to be revetted, as is seen on the left. Identified left to right: Captain R. J. Langton MC, Officer Commanding, No. 1 Section (holding bag); 1194 Sapper (Spr) D. C. Vecchia; 6772 Spr C. A. L. Robinson, all members of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company.

A wrecked M113 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), destroyed in 6RAR's 'Operation Bribie' by enemy Recoiless Rifle (RCL) fire which killed the driver and crew commander.

2 OTU Mildura WW2. A range of aircraft can be seen including the ubiquitous P40 Kittyhawk and some Vultee Vengeance dive bombers.

The graves of 9 aircrew (4 RAAF, 5 RAF) lost in the air raid on Lille 10/11 May 1944

3rd Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment on parade April 1977.

HEadstones of two Commonwealth airmen

L-R 1914/15 Star, British Empire War Medal, Victory Medal

1344 Private Albert LAMBERT

A specially modified Lancaster B1 of 617 Squadron overflies the Mohne Dam against which it has just released its 'Upkeep' depth charge bomb. The Mohne Eder and Sorpe dams were all attacked as part of 'Operation Chastise'.

Contalmaison Chateau Cemetery

Lance Bombadier Larry Davenport mans his weapon pit and an M60 Machine Gun the morning following the first attack on FSB Coral.

An informal squadron briefing at 24 Squadron - A72-80 in shot at rear of he group of men walking towards the camera.

This is a slightly damaged photo of ANZAC Beach, Gallipoli, 1915. The beach has soldiers and supplies arriving by boat.

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

Chevillon, Haute Marne, France

Commemorative Plaque and Scroll signed by King George V, issued to the families of the Fallen

Nutsy Bolt's grave at Fromelles

Sappers work on dugout near Hooge Crater, near Ypres, September 1917

Sister Ellen Keats, 2nd/10th Australian General Hospial

The Honour Rolls within the National War Memorial Adelaide

A Poster urging Australians to avenge the sinking of the Centaur by contributing to the war effort

JEH Butler's name on last shell fired from Anzac Cove, 12 December 1915

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

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.

Vickers Warwick and crew including P/Offr John "Bart" Bartholomew 1st left, the Navigator. This crew was involved in a near disaster and their aircraft was lost after an emergency landing and runway overshoot brought on by an Engine Failure (and fire) After Take-Off (EFATO), resulting in the aircraft overshooting the runway and crashing into the sea. All of the crew survived. Crew in front of their Warwick `B4` L to R: Nav F/O Bart Bartholomew, 2/Pilot H.Bath, W/AG Ted Russell, Pilot Jack Murray, W/AG Cledwyn Evans, W/AG Colin Acton and A/G F/O C.H.Haywood. Photo: Ted Russell.

Edith Hübbe, mother of Captain Fritz Hermann Hübbe, 1st Pioneer Battalion, killed in action, 22–23 July 1916.

77 Squadron P51s undergoing servicing at Iwakuni Japan, 1950

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.

A M2A2 105mm howitzer fires in support of 1 RAR from FSB Coral

Wellington GR.XII 221 Sqn RAF over Greece 1945

1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

7083 Private Robert William Thompson, with his motherless little children prior to Embarkation

MEMBERS OF 2/28 INFANTRY BATTALION USING A HAND RAILWAY TROLLEY TO MOVE THEIR HEAVY GEAR TO THE NEW UNIT POSITION.

Walrus Mk I Seaplane L2177 on Aproach to HMAS Sydney for Recovery by the Cruisers Crane in late 1941, Somewhere in Australian Waters, posib off South Australia. This Photo shows Ray Barrey in the Cockpit taxing the Aircraft, while the Naval Observer Jack Bacon RN assists the Aircrews TAG sitting on the top wing waiting for the Aircrafts Crane to lower the hook which He had to Catch and Hook up to the Wing so it Could then be Winched onboard. In view on the deck of HMAS Sydney is a Carley Float in its stowed poistion, while Looking on are a RAN Petty Officer and a RAAF Member of the Groundstaff. It is believed that this Photo was taken by LAC Keith Homard RAAF, who was a former Newcastle Press Photographer now Part of HMAS Sydney's RAAF Detachment as the Reconnaissance Photograph Sections Commander.