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Headstone Plaque Frank Owen's Grave
L-R - Distinguished Service Order , Distinguished Flying Cross, 9-45 Star, Atlantic Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal, British War Medal 39-45, Australian Service Medal 39-45
This interview was recorded as part of a combined oral history project conducted by Veterans SA, the Returned & Services League of Australia, the Vietnam Veterans’ Association, the Vietnam Veterans’ Federation, and the University of South Australia (UniSA). The project’s executive director was Lieutenant Colonel Bill Denny AM BM; the interviewer was Dr Nigel Starck (UniSA honorary senior research fellow). The narrative contains personal recollections and is not presented as an official statement of service.
Memoriam card rededication 21/3/2023
Frank Lampard (centre) with Owen family members
FURLER_100 Squadron_Details of Operations

SKM_C36823032816490.pdf
14154 GILBERT Leslie William.
Flight Lieutenant Robert N.G. 'Norm' BARLOW, DFC
Dambusters Blog

https://dambustersblog.com/2015/07/31/dambuster-of-the-day-no-122-lancelot-howard/?blogsub=spammed#subscribe-blog
Dambusters Blog

https://dambustersblog.com/2015/07/31/dambuster-of-the-day-no-122-lancelot-howard/?blogsub=spammed#subscribe-blog
London, England. 1944-05-31. “With the Australians in Britain”. Flying Officer (FO) B. T. Foxlee DFC DFM, RAAF, of Ashgrove, Qld, mid-upper or front gunner of a famous bomber crew, the first all-Australian crew of the first Australian Squadron to be formed in Bomber Command. FO Foxlee came to the BBC to broadcast about his experiences in the Pacific Service programme, which included the Dam busting raids of 1943.’
Edith Hübbe, mother of Captain Fritz Hübbe, Edith was the first woman to matriculate and be admitted to University of Adelaide, and for many years ran a school preparing young women to do the same

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

Letter_Henry_A_ROBERTS.pdf
Warrant Officer Robert Edward BROWN NAA Service Records

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1187451&c=WW2
L-R 1939--45 Star, Nth Africa Star, Pacific Star, Defence Medal, British War Medal 39-45, Australian Service Medal 39-45.
Photo of John Robert TREE taken shortly after qualification as an Air Gunner
Kelly Brothers Eric and Basil
Service Record National Archives

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=6410593
L-R Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, 1939-45 Star, Aircrew Europe Star, Defence Medal, British War Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45
Awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (presented by General Birdwood on his post war visit to Australia 6 March 1920)

Meritorious Service Medal 'As a Company Cook under all circumstances this man has proved himself a most willing, conscientious and able worker. he is responsible in no small degree for the general good health of all the men in his company. His work is always carried out efficiently and his cheerfulness and willingness even under adverse circumstances have made his services very valuable to the Battalion at all times.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 113 Date: 6 October 1919
DVA Nominal Roll Entry

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=693872&c=WW2#R
NAA Service Record - LCDR Harry Preston BROWNELL

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=5228892
LASCELLES Sydney John Scan of Service Record Extract

SJL_Service_Record_Scan_20230505.pdf
1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal and Australian Service Medal 39-45 tell a story. This man was a WW1 veteran who served again in the Part Time Volunteer Defence Corps in WW2.
Vietnam Veterans Vigil at Karrakatta Cemetery WA on 3 August 2023. Part of Vietnam 50 commemorations
Vietnam Veterans Vigil
20213 Vietnam Veteran Vigil Project
2023 Vietnam Veteran Vigil
2023 Vietnam Veteran Vigil
WW2 Homeland Defence - British War Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45
Robert John Mitchell
Bernie Mundy undertook training at the RAAF's No. 2 School of Technical Training
Bernie Mundy undertook training at the RAAF's No. 2 School of Technical Training
LYONS_QX6134_Service Summary

NX7024_LYONS_Service_Summary.pdf
Ronald Sansom served in Supply / Ordnance in the Army from 1942, initially in the Militia, before transferring to the AIF in 1943 until 1946.
Ken Smerdon served in the Navy from 1943-1947
Stan Wilson served in the 2nd/43rd Infantry Battaion in the 9th Division from 1940 until war's end in the Middle East (Tobruk() and El Alamein and later in New Guinea and Borneo.
DVA Nominal Roll extract - Sydney WILLIS

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=682642&c=WW2
Ron Hanton served as a n Engineer in Coastal Artillery 'R' Battery
Catalina flying boats drawn up on the apron in front of the Hangars at RAAF Rathmines - on a bleak looking day in 1944
NAA Service Record

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4768512
The AIF project

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=242406
NAA Service Record 17410 PTE Herbert HALLAM

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4266809
NAA Service Record LTCOL Olive Ada KESTEL

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=6656941
Lieutenant Colonel Olive Ada KESTEL, RRC, Australian Army Nursing Service. A portrait painted by one of her soldiers. In this portrait she is wearing the ribbon of the Royal Red Cross and the Africa Service. Her other war medals had yet to be issued.
Staff Sergeant 36 (later Lieutenant) Clifford Charles Burge, Army Pay Corps (later 24th Battalion)
Lieutenant Leonard Gurner of the 60th Bn AIF: KIA Morlancourt France 18 July 1918

Lieutenant Leonard Gurner of the 60th Bn AIF: KIA Morlicourt France 18 July 1918
HMAS Swan (II)
A B25 Mitchell bomber of No. 180 Squadron lines up for take off at RAF Dunsfold, Surrey in the United Kingdom supporting Allied operations in Normandy

A B25 Mitchell bomber of No. 180 Squadron lines up for take off at RAF Dunsfold, Surrey in the United Kingdom supporting Allied operations in Normandy

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