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Anzac_Spirit_Essay_-_Cleve_James_Scott.pdf

alan_radford1.pdf

Rededication_Booklet_Final_2019.pdf

Clement_Kwaterski_by_Montana_Foster.pdf

David_Spry_by_Laura_Cassell.pdf

Frank_Spencer_Charles_Day_by_Matilda_Cotton.pdf

Frederick_Hurtle_Little_by__India_Little.pdf

Fredrick_Toop_by_William_Wiseman.pdf

Gordon_Cathcart_Campbell_by_Melissa_Campbell.pdf

Howard_Hendrick_by_Sophie_Lipman.pdf

James_Churchill_Smith_by_Liam_Kay.pdf

Matron_Elizabeth_Mosey_by_Sophie_Baker.pdf

Philip_Kenneth_Ross_Gerecke_by_Tabitha_Zdanowicz.pdf

Rowley_Charles_Miller_by_Daisy_Yates.pdf

W_O_Jose_by_Shreyas_Khanna.pdf

Thomas_Currie__DIver__Derrick_by_Elise_Turtur.pdf

Wesley_Choat_by_Lily_Farrell.pdf

William_Faint_by_Ryan_Schwarz.pdf

William_Harold_Simcock_by_Charli_Medlow.pdf

Research_Checklist_WW1.pdf

Research_Checklist_WWII.pdf

Guide_to_Reading_a_WW2_Service_Record.pdf

Medals_for_Australians.pdf

140129_Tom_Tobin_Memoire.pdf

This Australian soldier’s skull has extensive damage caused by bullet wounds sustained in the Battle of Passchendale (or Third Ypres, Battle of Polygon Wood) in the First World War. He was shot on September 28, 1917. Most of the damage was caused by a lead bullet that entered the mouth and passed through the palate and right eye. Shrapnel destroyed the ascending ramus of the right jaw, and another bullet, visible here, struck the left frontal sinus. Philadelphia opthalmologist and surgeon WT Shoemaker treated this soldier at a battlefield hospital in France. This soldier survived his initial injuries and treatments. But, five days after his injuries, blind and disoriented, he pulled out the bandage materials in his mouth that packed the wounds. He bled to death. Mutter Museum Philadelphia

Mericourt-L'Abbe Communal Cemetery Extension

LHS Plaque at St Peters Heroes Memorial

RHS Panel of the St Peters Memorial

No. 467 Squadron's 'S for Sugar' being bombed up at Waddington Yorkshire. This redoubtable airframe survived the war having completed 132 missions. It is reserved in the RAF Museum at Hendon near London.

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

A Matilda Tank several of which payed a crucial role at Slater's Knoll

SW Pacific Area of Operations - Paua New Guinea Bougainville and the Solomon Islands

Showing Slater's Knoll a week after the Japanese attacked on the morning of 5 April 1945. The front had now been pushed forward and life was quiet again on Slater's Knoll; the 25th Australian Infantry Battalion had just vacated the position and it was now occupied by troops of 'B' Company, 58/59 Australian Infantry Battalion. This work was painted with the simple object of showing life in a dug-in forward position, and gives an idea of many other sites where the infantry had been dug in for some time. The latrine with a 4-gallon oil drum serving as a seat, would be out in the open, away from the tents on the right, and food would be carried in dixies from the cook house, further back, and served to the men on the position. In the tents were two bunks made by using the canvas of the issued stretchers, supported by saplings. The legs of the stretchers were then stored in the Left Out of Battle (LOB) area, as they would be too bulky to carry. Pictured, is a Bren gun pit in the immediate left foreground where a lad is shown cleaning his weapon. There is a steep bank on the left of the picture, making a natural defence. This is actually at the rear of the site. As the Japanese attempted to take the knoll by force of numbers they approached up the gently sloping side to the right, beyond the limit of the painting. The Bren gun in the pit in the foreground supplied most effective cross fire. On the right can be seen part of a large bomb crater, made during the Japanese occupancy, and the uprooted trees cutting diagonally across the picture were evidently thrown up when the crater was made.

Troops burying Japanese dead in a mass grave after the overnight fighting at SLater's Knoll.

A 2 pounder (37mm) Anti Tank Gun firing at Japanese positions on Bougainville

Frank Hurley Machine-gunners of the 3rd Australian Light Horse Regiment at Khurbet-Ibn-Harith, Palestine, on 31 December 1917 print from Paget plate P03631.087

Positions of forces at dusk on October 31, 1917, during the Battle of Beersheba at the time of the charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade. British forces are shown in red, Turkish forces are shown in blue. The position reached by the regiments of the 4th Light Horse Brigade after the attack is shown in pale red. Note: there is no evidence that the 4th Light Horse Regiment crossed the Wadi Saba during their attack, nor that the 60th Division attacked south of the Wadi Saba. The Australian Mounted Division headquarters is shown where the Anzac Mounted Division headquarters moved to, after the capture of Tel el Saba. Neither the Gullett map nor Bou's map locates the headquarters of Anzac Mounted Division, Australian Mounted Division and Desert Mounted Corps at Kashim Zanna despite numemrous sources placing them there. [Preston 1921 pp. 25–6, Powles 1922 pp. 136–7, Hill 1978 p. 126]

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Milne Bay, Papua. 1942-09. Commanding Officers of famous RAAF squadrons. Left to right:- Wing-Commander J.R. Balmer, commanding No 100 Squadron, the first Australian Beaufort torpedo-bomber squadron to go into action; Squadron Leader "Bluey" K.W. Truscott, commanding No 76 Kittyhawk Fighter Squadron; and Squadron Leader Les Jackson commanding No 75 Kittyhawk Fighter Squadron.

Studio portrait of 405605 Aircraftman Walter Henry Rose of Cloncurry, Qld.

Studio portrait of 405605 Aircraftman Walter Henry Rose of Cloncurry, Qld.

Hand coloured studio portrait of Pilot Officer Henry Rose, DFC, of No. 156 Squadron (RAF), Pathfinder Force

WCDR John Balmer, while CO of No. 100 Squadron RAAF September 1942. Later CO of No. 467 Squadron, lost on Ops.

United Kingdom: London. 9 November 1943. Outside Buckingham Palace after an investiture is Wing Commander (Wing Cdr, later Group Captain [Gp Capt]) John Raeburn Balmer OBE, DFC, RAAF of Melbourne, Vic, Commanding Officer of Lancaster No 467 Squadron, RAAF Bomber Command (right), and Squadron Leader D. A. Green DSO DFC, RAF, Devon, UK. Grp Cpt Balmer was lost on operations over Belgium on May 11, 1944. He is buried in the Heverlee War Cemetery near Brussels.

10185 Jack 'Lucky' Reed

On the flight back to Sydney, with experienced flying boat Captain Lloyd Mundrell in the left hand seat.

3697 PTE Patrick Weir 3rd Pioneer Battalion

Reginald Francis GRIMLEY

Auction notes 25th September 2008 DNW website 1914-15 Star (O.N.2263 Ord. Sea.); British War and Victory Medals (A.B., R.A.N.); War and Australia Service Medals (2263 R. F. Grimley); Royal Australian Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension, with Second Award bar (2263 Leading Seaman, R.A.N.); H.M.A.S. Sydney - S.M.S. Emden Medal, 9 November 1914, silver Mexican Dollar dated 1895 , mounted by W. Kerr, Sydney, unnamed; Western Australia, Sydney - Emden Commemorative Medal, reverse inscribed (part engraved) ‘Presented by the People of Western Australia to R. F. Grimley, Boy 1 Class’, mounted for display, edge bruising, first three worn; others very fine (8) £1800-2200