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War Memorial
Australia

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.

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Back row L-R Malcolm McGhie 10Rft/15th Bn later 4MGCoy and 47th Bn, Jack Judd 12Rft 15th Bn, then 47th Bn and 59th Bn, Gregory Gibson 12Rft 15th Bn then 47Bn, killed at Dernancourt 28/3/18 and buried at Doullens, John Watson 11Rft 15th Bn KIA Bullecourt 11/4/17. Middle Albert Morgan 10Rft 15th Bn, then 47th Bn and Australian Flying Corp, Ernest Corbett, later 46th Bn, Walter Fish, Edmund Hurd 11Rft later 47th Bn and 45th Bns. Front Lennard Wadsley 13Rft 15th Bn then 52nd Bn KIA 10/9/16 Mouquet Farm, Robert Luxton 13Rft KIA 11/4/17 Bullecourt.

Troops aboard a train bound for Outer Harbour, 1915.

Surname: HUGHES; Given Names: Wlfred John Mann; Date of Birth: 29 April 1895; Date of Enlistment: 1 February 1915; Trade or Calling: University Student; Birth Location: Adelaide; Address prior to enlistment: Fourth Ave St Peters;

'G for George' is perhaps the best known WW II aircraft in Australia. It has been the centerpiece of the AWM since it was installed in 1955. The aircraft is a Mk1 Lancaster that served for 17 months with 460 Squadron, from 1942 until April 1944, completing 89 missions before being flown to Australia as part of a War Bond fundraising campaign. It famously flew under the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The Vickers Wellington, the type that formed the mainstay of Bomber COmmand until the arrival of the four engine 'heavies'. Later used as a training platform. http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/blogs/44822/attachments/183979d1321936604-vickers-wellington-458-squadron-1942-1943-wellington_0.jpg

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

Slouch Hat memorial adjacent to the Bullecourt church. Steve Larkins collection

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

SX15214, S10005 Gordon NUM

3029 PTE Edwin Charles DAVIS of the 26th Infantry Battalion

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.

PORTRAIT OF 8028 DRIVER R.B. COCHRANE, 6TH FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE, KILLED IN ACTION 1916-08-03.

John Leslie HOPPING of Caltowie

1774 Joseph Alfred Irwin

William Wilson Smith and family

William Smith's trench art

William Smith's trench art

William Smith's trench art

845, Jack Reginald KENYON, of Prospect SA

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.

The grave of Lieutenant Colonel Alan Leane, CO of the 28th Battalion

An unusual feature of the Dernancourt cemetery. The marker of a grave of what appears to be a young Englishwoman. What was the story behind her death in occupied France in WW2?

MILLETT, Reginald Wellington

PTE S.G. Stafford 2nd Battalion KIA at Lone Pine

Pembroke Dock, Wales. C. 1942. Crew of aircraft "A for Apple" of No. 461 (Sunderland) Squadron RAAF based at an RAF Station. Back row, left to right: 405083 Sergeant (Sgt) A. Miller; 401562 Sgt R. Hattam; 411426 Pilot Officer H. I. Dent; 403129 Flight Lieutenant B. Buls; 5942 Sgt A. J. Taylor; 405206 Sgt E. B. Gallagher; 6241 Sgt R. Tucker. Front row: Four members of the RAF.

Plymouth, England. C. 1943. Portrait of Flight Lieutenant R. W. Marks of Norwood, SA, a Sunderland aircraft captain of No. 10 Squadron RAAF at RAF Station Mount Batten.

BAY OF BISCAY. 1943-05-29. A LIFEBOAT FROM FRENCH DESTROYER 'LA COMBATTANTE', TRANSFERRING FROM SUNDERLAND T9114-E OF NO 461 SQUADRON, RAAF, SIXTEEN SURVIVORS OF TWO OTHER AIRCRAFT WHICH CRASHED INTO THE SEA. THE SUNDERLAND SUFFERED HULL DAMAGE DURING ITS SUBSEQUENT TAKEOFF CAUSING THE CAPTAIN, 400841 PILOT OFFICER G.V. SINGLETON, TO DECIDE TO LAND ON ANGLE AIRFIELD RATHER THAN ALIGHT ON WATER AT HIS HOME BASE. LITTLE FURTHER DAMAGE RESULTED FROM THE LANDING.

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.

The Farina War memorial

Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. 28 May 1944. Group portrait of the Commanding Officer and Senior Administrative Officer of No. 73 Wing RAAF, with the pilots of the Wing's three Squadrons: No. 77 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF (left), No. 79 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF (middle) and No. 76 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF on Momote airfield. No. 77 Squadron RAAF pilots, back row, left to right: Flying Officer (FO) D. (Doug) Summons; Pilot Officer (PO) Neall; Fo Martin; unidentified; PO D. (Doug) Tapsell; Sergeant (Sgt) Pyke; Sgt Clarke; PO Brocklehurst; Sgt Eames; 430438 Sgt Lindsay Collins (KIA Labuan, North Borneo 26 June 1945); Sgt White. Middle row: PO K. (Keith) Toupein (crouching); FO (George) Pagan; Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) (Dinga) Bell; Flt Lt (Doug) Prowse, Flight Commander; 576 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) C. W. (Cyril) Starke AFC, Commanding Officer, No. 77 Squadron RAAF; Flt Lt McTaggart, Flight Commander; FO C. (Clarrie) Scott; Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) C. (Cliff) Rose; FO W. (Bill) Kaye (crouching). Front row: PO D. (Don) Crane; Sgt Palme; Flt Sgt D. Rogers; Flt Sgt K. Martin; Sgt Dickenson; 409225 Sgt H. W. (Hal) Roberts; Sgt R. Rogers. No. 79 Squadron RAAF pilots, back row, left to right: PO J. (John) Vader; FO A. (Arch) Moore; 437476 PO R. Vernon (Ross) Day (Killed 28 April 1945); Warrant Officer (Jock) Haines; 400735 FO L. S. (Len) Reid DFC; 418232 Flt Sgt G. A. (Alec) Chomley; 405026 FO P. E. (Paul) Sebire; 411809 Flt Lt W. A. (Warren) Napier; 418071 FO W. J. (Bill) Coffey); 401000 FO D. (Doug) Scott. Middle Row: FO J. (Joe) Marshall; FO R. (Dick) Long, Acting Flight Commander, No. 79 Squadron; 251414 Flt Lt J. W. L. (John) Atkinson, Medical Officer, No. 79 Squadron (also known as Leigh); Sqn Ldr J. McD. (Jim) Davidson, Senior Administration Officer, No. 73 Wing; 213 Group Captain G. H. (Gordon) Steege DSO DFC, Commanding Officer (CO), No. 73 Wing; 407778 Flt Lt R. M. (Max) Brinsley DFC, Acting CO, No. 79 Squadron; 402270 FO W. H. (Bill) Wright, Flight Commander, No. 79 Squadron; 403392 Flt Lt A. S. (Alan) Yates. Front row: 401741 PO R. Hugh (Ross) Cameron (KIA 27 March 1945); Sgt V. (Viv) Pollard; 437523 PO H. D. (Hugh) Kennare; 403681 FO I. E. B. (Ian) McKellar; 408951 FO J. (Jim) Barrie; Flt Lt T. (Tom) Williams; FO A. (Arthur) Clayton. No. 76 Squadron RAAF pilots, back row, left to right: Sgt Alec Makeham; ?Sgt Wally Nugent; unidentified Sgt; Pilot Officer (PO) Jim Morris; Sgt (Red) O'Meara; unidentified Sgt; unidentified Sgt; Middle row: ?Sgt J. (Jim) Cornish); FO J. (John) Plain; Flt Lt C. (Charles) Roe, Medical Officer No. 76 Squadron; Flt Lt F. L. (Leigh) Bowes, soon to be Sqn Ldr, CO No. 76 Squadron; FO W. (Bill) Cashmore; unidentified Flt Lt; unidentified FO. Front row: Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) B. (Bruce) Gogerly; unidentified Flt Sgt; unidentified Sgt; ?Sgt F. (Frank) Miles or A. (Alan Carthew; Flt Sgt Noel Butler; unidentified PO. Members of No. 76 Squadron RAAF at that time not identified in this photograph: Flt Lt Jim (Gremlin) Harrison; FO Bruce Caldwell; Flt Sgt Cliff Willis; Flt Sgt Neville Ellis; Flt Sgt Val Higgins; John Lundy.

2048 CRAM William 43rd Battalion AIF RH#20

3294 PTE Leslie DOWDELL RH#11

935 Private Frank Oliver SCUTT 43rd Battalion RH#15

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

7204v Signaller Louis Leon BRUGEAUD RH#12

1184 Private James Michael TYNER 3 Fd Amb RH#22

Captain Ernest Albert WARREN, 27th Battalion RH#28

313 Trooper James Morell McKenzie KAY RH#27

187 Private Joseph Raymond STEAD

RH Panel Image 002 - Corporal Frank Allchin

Studio portrait of 407713 Aircraftman (AC), later Sergeant (Sgt) No. 32 Squadron RAAF, James Alexander Herman, of Kilkenny, SA.

Warren Cowan's grave - alongside his comrades from Hudson A16-201 at Bomana War Cemetery

RAF STATION LEUCHARS, SCOTLAND. 1943-06-04. MEMBERS OF THE GROUND STAFF OF HAMPDEN TORPEDO-BOMBER NO. 455 SQUADRON RAAF OF COASTAL COMMAND. ON TOP OF THE AIRCRAFT, STANDING, LEFT TO RIGHT: 6728 CORPORAL (CPL) A. E. RYAN, BRISBANE, QLD; 10165 CPL W. C. KENNAUGH, NORTHCOTE, VIC; 17741 LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN (LAC) R. A. LOFTUS, PERTH, WA; 15273 CPL S. F. YOUNG, HABERFIELD, NSW; 15009 LAC V. MERCHANT, NEWCASTLE, NSW; 15001 LAC N. H. GARBUTT, DUNDEE, SCOTLAND; 33236 AIRCRAFTMAN 1 (AC1) E. H. LUKES, NORTH SYDNEY, NSW; 6682 LAC F. C. B. LAGETTIE, CABRAMATTA, NSW; 22379 LAC J. E. SCHATZ, GREENSLOPES, QLD; 10200 SERGEANT (SGT) L. D. PATIENCE, MELBOURNE, VIC; 27063 CPL H. R. TURNER, WEST TANKS, SA; 33255 AC1 E. C. HENRY, WAVERLY, NSW; 24056 LAC R. M. WARNER, YUBBA, NSW; 24100 LAC W. J. WALKER, BURWOOD, VIC. SITTING: 6808 CPL R. E. GARDE, UNDERCLIFFE, NSW; 12110 SGT C. ETCHELLS, ASHFIELD, NSW. STANDING, BACK: 10279 LAC L. L. WALLER, PENHURST, VIC; 968331 LAC N. HIBBLE, NEWCASTLE, RAF; 8761 LAC J. J. GARDNER, NOTTINGHAM, RAF; 6849 LAC F. J. PRITCHARD, CARLTON, NSW. STANDING, FRONT: 6585 LAC G. L. DOWNER, BRISBANE, QLD; 15013 LAC D. A. MATHEWSON, TOTTENHAM, NSW; 15979 LAC H. T. GROENNOU, LEICHHARDT, NSW; 10275 LAC S. W. POPE, ST KILDA, VIC; 14527 CPL S. V. WEATHERBY, NORTH BONDI, NSW; 9200 SGT F. R. MARCH, ADELAIDE, SA; 10162 CPL J. A. WILLIAMS, KINGSWOOD, VIC; 6035 FLIGHT SERGEANT H. ORR, BRISBANE, QLD; 2823 FLYING OFFICER WILSON, BRISBANE, QLD; 1796131 AIRCRAFTMAN W. VALENTINE, BONNY BRIDGE, SCOTLAND, RAF; 1400829 AC1 K. S. COLLIVER, BRISTOL, RAF; 13245 LAC J. LEFOE, MELBOURNE, VIC; 20187 CPL N. R. SIVYER, EAST MOREE, NSW; 1865049 AC2 D. V. FISHER, ESSEX, RAF; 10691 SGT F. J. SHAW, MELBOURNE, VIC; 21465 LAC W. A. M. FORBES, NEWCASTLE, NSW.

Lauri Sheard's grave alongside his colleagues at Bomana War Cemetery Port Moresby Papua New Guinea.

A map depicting the disposition of forces at 4 Oct 1917, immediately prior to the commencement of the Battle of Broodseinde Ridge

Arthur Harold Boettcher - Lancaster LM-372

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.