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DVA Nominal Roll Entry

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1261357&c=VIETNAM
NAA Service Record Thomas Britten GOODE

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=5254072
A Royal Australian Air Force Vought OS2U Kingfisher seaplane in flight. No. 107 Squadron RAAF operated 18 OS2Us from RAAF Base Rathmines in New South Wales and St. Georges Basin from 1943 to 1945.
A Martin PBM Mariner flying boat (RAAF serial A70-12, registration VH-CPL) of No. 41 Squadron RAAF based at Cairns (Australia), in flight on 21 September 1944. The pilot was Flight Lieutenant Fox (411319) of Longueville, New South Wales (Australia), in the air at 2,400 m en route from Townsville to Port Moresby (New Guinea).
No. 77 Squadron RAF Blog

https://docplayer.net/57197404-77-squadron-raf-raaf-airmen-killed-whilst-on-active-service-with-77-squadron-raf-world-war-ii.html
77 Squadron Association

https://docplayer.net/57197404-77-squadron-raf-raaf-airmen-killed-whilst-on-active-service-with-77-squadron-raf-world-war-ii.html
John Duncan KRONE's headstone
Gordon Hyde's headstone in Harrogate cemetery
Aidan Jordan's Headstone in Harrogate cemetery
James Gordon Dobbs enlistment photo.
LASCELLES Sydney John Scan of Service Record Extract

SJL_Service_Record_Scan_20230505.pdf
AIF Project entry - note this needs to be checked against a duplicate entry AND his service record SFL VWMA 8JUL23

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=37585
NAA Service Record MAJ John Bruce BUCHANAN

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3152474
AIF Project Page

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=36867
NAA Service Record LT Ferneligh John BRUTON, MC

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=3133116&isAv=N
Malcolm Illman RAAF 1940-1945
Vietnam Veterans Vigil at Karrakatta Cemetery WA on 3 August 2023. Part of Vietnam 50 commemorations
2023 Vietnam Veteran Vigil project
2023 Vietnam Veteran Vigil
20213 Vietnam Veteran Vigil Project
2023 Vietnam Veteran Vigil
2023 Vietnam Veteran Vigil
First Track - Peter Haran

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/vietnam-first-track
The Battle of Long Tan - Robert O'Neill

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/the-battle-of-long-tan-overview
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
Reginald Nichols served in the RAN from 1938 to 1948
Cliff Norton served in the Navy 1941-1944
Thomas and Trevor Brown (brothers) served in the RAAF and RAN respectively
Ronald Sansom served in Supply / Ordnance in the Army from 1942, initially in the Militia, before transferring to the AIF in 1943 until 1946.
DVA Nominal Roll extract - Sydney WILLIS

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=682642&c=WW2
Doug Sutherland served in the Army 1940-45
Gordon Jury

Gordon Jury
Ron Thomas served in the RAAF from 1940 - 45
Aerial view of the RAAF Base at Rathmines the home of No. 3 OTU
Catalina flying boats drawn up on the apron in front of the Hangars at RAAF Rathmines - on a bleak looking day in 1944
Robert Upton Served in the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU)
Stan Smith served in the 2nd/48th Battalion throughout the war in the Middle East the Pacific and Borneo
Two Royal Air Force Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX of No. 611 Squadron (West Lancashire), based at RAF Biggin Hill, London (UK), in 1943. Aircraft FY-F was flown by squadron CO Squadron Leader Armstrong (an Australian). The photo is part of a lager formation of eight Spitfires, taken out of a Lockheed Hudson as a public relations photo over Biggin Hill.
NAA Service Record

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4768512
WW1 Meritorious Service L- R Military Medal (MM), 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.

WW1 Meritorious Service L- R Military Medal (MM), 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
The AIF project

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=242406
WANIGELA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. OPERATIONS GROUP CONFERENCE BY BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HANTON MACNIDER, COMMANDING GENERAL OF INFANTRY, 32 U.S. DIVISION, AT WHICH HE ISSUED ORDERS TO HIS TROOPS AND TO THE 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY FOR THE MOVE TO THE MUSA RIVER. OFFICERS OF THE 2/10TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION AND AUSTRALIAN NEW GUINEA ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT WERE PRESENT BY INVITATION. LEFT TO RIGHT, SEATED:- AN OFFICER OF THE 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY, THEN MAJOR H.G. HARCOURT DSO., MC., OFFICER COMMANDING 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY, BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HANFORD MACNIDER, COLONEL HALE AND MAJOR BEAVER BOTH OF 32ND U.S. DIVISION. BACK ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT:- THREE AMERICAN OFFICERS, THEN LIEUTENANT COLONEL J.G. DOBBS, OFFICER COMMANDING 2/10TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, MAJOR J.H. TREVIVIAN, 2/10TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, CAPTAIN ANDERSON OF AUSTRALIAN NEW GUINEA ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT AND CAPTAIN T.J. SCHMEDJE, MC., 2/10TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION.
WANIGELA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. VISIT OF GENERAL SIR THOMAS BLAMEY, GBE KCB CMG DSO ED, COMMANDING ALLIED LAND FORCES, SOUTH WEST PACIFIC AREA, TO WANIGELA. LEFT TO RIGHT:- GENERAL BLAMEY, BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HANFORD MACNIDER, 32ND U.S. DIVISION, MAJOR N. CARLYON, AIDE-DE-CAMP TO GENERAL BLAMEY, LIEUTENANT COLONEL J.G. DOBBS, OFFICER COMMANDING 2/10TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, AND CAPTAIN R.W. SANDERSON, 2/10TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION.
NAA Service Record 17410 PTE Herbert HALLAM

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4266809
CITATION for the AWARD of the ROYAL RED CROSS, 1st CLASS to Lieutenant Colonel OLIVE ADA KESTAL. RRC.

“Major Kestel arrived in New Guinea in September 1943 with 24 Australian Army Nursing Service personnel. During the ensuing period, the hospital was working to its capacity, and there were frequent enemy air raids in the near vicinity. She has at all times carried out her duties as matron with energy, tact and control. In consequence of Matron Kestel untiring devotion to duty, the work of nursing staff has beyond praise”.
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.

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