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Newspaper article detailing Tom Flynn's tragic demise
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Tom Flynn as a member of the victorious 1913 Waikerie football team
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Reuben Starr, member of the victorious 1913 Waikerie team that defeated Morgan in the Grand Final
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3RAR Defensive positions at Balmoral. The soldiers are wearing steel helmets and they have a very well prepared fully 'dug in' weapon pit prepared to 'Stage 3' complete with sleeping bays with overhead protection (sandbags) to protect against artillery and mortar splinters.
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QX10333 Athol 'Ned' Bayly in his first suit
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Buckingham Palace, London. C. 1943-06. Group portrait taken outside Buckingham Palace after the Queen's Investiture. Left to right 408076 Flight Sergeant T. D. Simpson DFM of Hobart, Tas; 406248 Pilot Officer C. L. Howard DFC of Perth, WA; 407729 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) D. J. Shannon DSO DFC of Bridgewater, SA; Wing Commander G. P. Gibson VC DSO and Bar DFC and Bar, RAF; 407074 Flt Lt R. C. Hay DFC and Bar of Malvern, SA; 402367 Flt Lt J. F. Leggo DFC and Bar of Lake Macquarie, NSW; Flt Lt H. B. Martin DSO DFC of Sydney, NSW, RAF; 407380 Pilot Officer F. M. Spafford DFC DFM of Wayville, SA. They were all decorated for the part they had played in the famous raid on the German dams, led by the Commanding Officer Wing Commander Gibson who was awarded the VC.
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A Consolidated Catalina aircraft (right), with the serial number A24-100 and code number RK-L of 42 Squadron, RAAF, piloted by 401846 Pilot Officer (PO) (later Flying Officer (FO)) Clifford Dent Hull of Hawthorn, Vic. After completing a successful mine laying operation off Macassar (Celebes) Harbour on the night of 23 & 24 October 1944, the starboard engine of this aircraft was damaged by Japanese anti aircraft (AA) fire. Unable to maintain height on his return and with the second engine failing, PO Hull made a forced landing in the open sea south of the South Western Celebes Peninsula. He and his crew spent the next twelve hours on the water uncomfortably close to four Japanese airfields based in Southern Celebes, before a second Catalina (left), OX-U of 43 Squadron, RAAF, arrived to rescue PO Hull and his crew. A rubber dingy is visible transferring the downed crew to the rescue aircraft. A United States B24 Liberator bomber located the downed Catalina and guided the rescue Catalina in. The B24 continued to circle overhead providing protection. After the disabled Catalina had been sunk by machine gun fire, the rescue Catalina took off and returned safely to Darwin. This operation was one of the epic sea rescues of the Second World War, entailing a round trip of 1800 miles mainly through Japanese held territory. The rescue crew were: 415632 FO (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt, DFC)), Armand Andre Etienne (Captain), of West Perth, WA; 408409 FO (later Flt Lt), Ian McCallister Robson of Sandy Bay, Tas; 428809 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) (later Warrant Officer (WO)), John Joseph Sweeney (Navigator), of Newcastle, NSW, (visible standing on the wing of the rescue aircraft); 428832 Flt Sgt (later WO), Raymond Victor Tumeth of Haberfield, NSW; 428360 Flt Sgt (later WO), Derek Fanshawe Robertson of Camberwell, Vic; 12912 Sergeant (Sgt) (later PO), Robert Richard Tingman of Brighton, Vic; 12223 Sgt (later Flt Sgt), Albert Leslie Warton of Sydney, NSW; A2398 Sgt, Thomas Roy Elphick of Bondi, NSW; 33642 Corporal, James Francis Burgess Oliver of Glen Innes of NSW.
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A diagram of the Barrage Plan for the Australian Corps advance. The barrage was fired on preset timings without the benefit of radio communications so advancing troops had to be careful not to get too close to, or be left behind by the line of the creeping barrage. The level of complexity of such a plan epitomises the sophistication of Artillery by this stage of the war. Each battery of guns would be using different firing data on a relentless schedule from their many and varied locations in order to achieve this effect on the ground.
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Grave marker of eleven members of the 21st Battalion who were all killed in action at Mont St Quentin, France on 1 September 1918 and buried in a mass grave. Listed on the plaque are: 6817 Sergeant Colin Edward Hunt from Surrey Hills, Victoria; 2116 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Albert Henry Blackmore, MM from North Maldon, Victoria; 5413 L Cpl Gustaf William Oscar Staaf from Echuca, Victoria; 6833 Private (Pte) Albert Edwin Kelly from Ballarat, Victoria; 6874 Pte Francis William Roberts from Upper Hawthorn, Victoria; 6380 Pte Alfred Roy Smerdon, from Murrayville, Victoria; 6178 Pte William Hugh Thorburn from Newtown, NSW; 664A Pte Edwin Werrett Thompson from Colac, Victoria; 6747 Pte William Francis Dowell from Thornbury, Victoria; 6781 Pte David George Gregory Chandler from North Williamstown, Victoria; and 6398 Pte Alexander Walker from Rochester, Victoria. The above listed were all later moved to individual graves in the Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
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L-R Military Cross, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal Victory Medal with MiD clasp
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RAN Badge
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Informal portrait of officers of No. 13 Squadron, RAAF. From the left: 426311 Flying Officer (FO) Nurden Anderson Chowns, of Townsville, Qld; 423956 FO Charles George Watts, of Sydney, NSW; 22465 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) George Alexander Anderson, of Dalby, Qld; 425050 Flying Officer (FO) Bruce Lionel Poole, of Coorparoo, Qld. These airmen were four of six crew members on board Ventura aircraft A59-84 which took off from Gould Strip, Batchelor, NT, on the morning of 27 January 1945 and returned twenty minutes later requesting landing instructions. The aircraft, which it is believed was experiencing instrument failure, struck the ground during the approach, killing all on board.
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A Short Sunderland Mk.III (EK573/P) of No. 10 Squadron RAAF on the water after alighting to rescue 3 survivors from a Vickers Wellington of No. 172 Squadron RAF, clinging to a one-man dinghy (seen at right) after being shot down in the Bay of Biscay while attacking a German submarine on 26 August 1944. Although it was forbidden for flying boats to alight on the open sea in rescue attempts, the pilot of the Sunderland, Flight Lieutenant W.B. Tilley, decided the survivors could wait no longer for surface craft to arrive, and touched down to pick them up for a safe return to Mount Batten, Devon (UK). A fourth member of the Wellington crew, Flying Officer R.B. Gray RCAF, refused to risk the lives of the other survivors by overloading the dinghy, although he was seriously injured. He succumbed during their fifteen-hour ordeal at sea and was awarded a posthumous George Cross. The pilot of the Sunderland of No. 10 Squadron RAAF who made the hazardous sea landing and take-off was Flight Lieutenant William Boris Tilley DFC of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia).
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Reginald Alfred Charles HEALEY 54th Battalion
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Australian delegates at the Japanese surrender ceremony on board USS Missouri. Left to right: (back row) Captain J. Balfour; Lieutenant Colonel D. H. Dwyer; Air Vice Marshal G. Jones; Lieutenant General F. H. Berryman; Commodore J. A. Collins. Front row: Rear Admiral G. Moore; General Sir Thomas Blamey (who signed for Australia) and Air Vice Marshal W. D. Bostock.
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2 OTU Mildura WW2. A range of aircraft can be seen including the ubiquitous P40 Kittyhawk and some Vultee Vengeance dive bombers.
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A page from a Stokes Mortar training pamphlet, illustrating the key features of the Stokes Mortar. Baseplate to absorb recoil, adjustable bipod to 'lay' the mortar on the required bearing and elevation, and the tube or barrel. Its cylindrical bomb was inherently unstable and its 'always' fuze was necessary to ensure detonation. Later developments saw the introduction of fin stabilised bombs which with the weapon itself, evolved into the 3 inch mortar used in WW2.
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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.
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1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory medal with the oak leaf clasp denoting Mentioned in Despatches.
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Studio portrait of 427775 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Harry James Boyd, No. 24 Squadron, of Pomborneit North, Vic. Boyd enlisted as a private, service number V170264, in the Citizens' Military Forces in Oct 1941. In September 1942 he enlisted in the RAAF. On 23 March 1945, Flt Sgt Boyd was the 2nd pilot, and one of twelve men on board, of Liberator aircraft A72-80 which left RAAF Truscott to undertake reconnaissance over the Lombok Strait and island of Bali. Shortly after take off, A72-80 developed engine trouble and crashed into Vansittart Bay, WA. All on board were killed. Flt Sgt Boyd was 22 years of age.
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S/N 1 Lt Edward Addy pth Australian Infantry Battalion is remembered on the Catfield War Memorial, the village of his birth.
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S/N 1 LT Edward Addy, 9th Australian Infantry Battalion Pieta Cemetery Malta
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A colourised version of a photograph taken in the same sequence as. It shows two key colour schemes applied to RAAF Hudsons immediately prior to and during the early stages of WW2. A16-3 is painted matt black underneath, the others a sky blue. A16-38 is painted foliage green on the upper surfaces, the other two have a disruptive pattern with dark earth applied.
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Crews and Hampden aircraft of No 50 Squadron at Waddington after the raid on shipping off Bergen, 9 April 1940.
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An Avro Lancaster Mk III of No. 50 Squadron late in the war - Squadron codes 'VN' clearly visible
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6393 Sapper John Frederick BOARDMAN
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PRIVATE: Albert Ernest WORRALL; 1906-42, at Age: 36yrs. Military: 2nd Australian Imperial Force - Australian Army - WWII - 2nd/29th Australian Infantry Battalion. Origin of Portrait: (AWM) Australian War Memorial; Accession No: P02784.025.
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Capt Hyman SYMONDS
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G for George a tribute to all RAAF Aircrew who flew with RAF Bomber Command
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The grand entrance to Kensal Green Cemetery, London W10 AR4
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Portrait of Captain J. A. COLLINS, June 1940 while Captain of of HMAS SYDNEY (II)
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Fred Barson, June 1917 Hurdcott England
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A portrait made by celebrated war artist Stella Bowen who painted a series of portraits of Australian aircrew in England during 1944.
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Ward at 2/4 Australian General Hospital, Labuan, Borneo 1945
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"Star" boring plant, used by the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company (AEMM).
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"Star" boring plant, used by the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company (AEMM).
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FSGT Noel Wilkinson GADSDEN 625 Sqn RAF. Flt Sgt GADSDEN trained as an Air Gunner as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS), and was posted to No. 625 Squadron RAF operating Lancaster bombers. On the night of 12/13 August 1944, Flt Sgt GADSDEN's Lancaster, serial number ME733, radio call sign CF-Z, was shot down and crashed at Hollenstein, Germany after an operational sortie over Brunswick. He was killed alongside six other crew members
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1763 Trooper Joseph Wren
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Photo of John Messiter taken at enlistment, aged 18
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TX11229 Private Roy Absolom
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BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET, ENGLAND. OCTOBER 1941. 404790 PILOT OFFICER CHARLES ANTONY (TONY) HARLAND (QUEENSLAND) ON LEFT AND PILOT OFFICER 402913 HENRY (HARRY) ROLAND TRAIN. HARLAND WAS LATER KILLED IN A RAID ON ESSEN, GERMANY, ON 11 APRIL 1942.
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Troops of the 7th DIvisions landing at Balikpapan Operation Oboe
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Outdoor portrait of 2600 Corporal George Smith Holliday, C Company, 35th Battalion, at the memorial erected near Ash Crater to members of the 35th Battalion who fell in the battle of Messines on 7 June 1917. A memorial similar to this one, less the names, was erected by the Battalion Pioneers near Gooseberry Farm, just west of Messines, in June 1917, but was destroyed by enemy shellfire. Listed on the memorial are: Lieutenant (Lt) Thomas Henry Denton-Clark; Lt Burton Elliott Chapman; Lt Robert Donaldson Perrau; 359 Pte Randolph Adamson; 2043 Pte Paul Stanislaus Baxter; 2531 Pte Horace Brenton; 726 Pte George Leslie Bullock; 1883 Pte Henry Gilbert Burke; 2032 Pte Edward John Bellchambers; 2534 Pte John Albert Barker; 1090 Pte Frederick Charles Cantelo; 1105 Pte Robert Convery; 42 Pte Albert Henry Cooper; 2047 Pte Roy Collins; 1792 Pte Patrick Cusack; 2293 Pte Frederick John Carter; 1111 Pte Samuel Jackson Dale; 2304 Pte William James Davis; 1481 Pte Evan Archibald Davies; 421 Pte Walter John Edmonds; 2066 Pte Wentworth Lincoln East; 1945A Pte Arthur Floate; 772 Pte Fredrick Fredrickson; 1132 Pte James Gray; 1835A Pte Cyril James Glenn; 93 Pte Clarence Claude Hobden; 797 Pte Alexander Richard Hincks; 1486 Pte Cecil William Hincks; 2079 Pte Edmund Reid Hellyer; 130 Pte David Johnstone;1820 Pte Stanley Beaumont Justelius; 131 Pte Thomas Kane; 1489 Pte Edwin Kinsmore; 2342 Pte Alfred Thomas King; 2176 Pte James William Lowe; 495 Corporal Alfred Moore; 2430 Pte Leslie Moxey; 1838 Arthur Archibald McCook; 504 Pte George McLean; 2635 Pte Alexander McFarlane; 1910 Pte Gilbert Albert Arthur Norris; 2376 Pte Patrick Thomas Pickard; 877 Pte Harry Kelvin Parker; 879 Pte Joseph Peacock; 199 Pte Thomas Read; 1850 Pte Stephen Ryan; 891 Pte George Robertson; 192 Pte Samuel Reid; 1977 Pte Patrick Ryan; 1697 Pte William Symington; 202 Pte Frederick Harold Charles Smith; 2654 Pte Sidney Solman; 564 Pte Harry Shears; 2403 Pte George Grainger Stevenson; 2016 Pte Oswald David Westrup;2899 Pte Robert Charles Clyde Worland; 1270 Pte Mark Elms Waters; 585 Pte William John Williams; 2666 Pte Julian Schaffer Weber; 396 Pte Reginald Thomas Cowley; 1863 Pte Clarence Wiseman; 2368 Pte Orlando Thomas Lockyer O'Brien; 386 Pte John Alexander Campbell; 2645 Pte William Alexander Nichol; 398 Pte James Joseph Colgate; 2621 Pte James Lee; and 1898A Pte James Aaron Dodd.
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The cover of Gellert's most successful book of poetry, which cemented his reputation as Australia's premier warrior poet of WW1
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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;
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The 460 Squadron Badge and motto "Strike and Return"
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MID Medal Set: British War Medal, Victory Medal (with oak leaf symbolising Mentioned In Dispatches)
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3029 PTE Edwin Charles DAVIS of the 26th Infantry Battalion
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3190 Private Kenneth Morton KNOX 50th Battalion
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