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Nutsy Bolt's grave at Fromelles
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10185 Jack Reed striking a dapper pose
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The colour patches which identified units in the AIF were designed to show what division or service they belonged to, and also, in the case of infantry units, their brigade and the sequence of the Battalion in that Brigade. The shape of a colour patch indicated the division or service - 1st Division - horizontal rectangle split horizontally 2nd Division - diamond shape split horizontally 3rd Division - horizontal ellipse 4th Division - circle split horizontally 5th Division - vertical rectangle split vertically. The lower colour denoted the brigade's sequence in the Division. Usually (but not always!) these colours were: Green - first brigade in the division Red - second Light Blue - third The 4th Brigade, originally in the 1st Division , had a dark Blue lower half. Its reallocation to the 4th Division after Gallipoli threw both the brigade / battalion numbering sequence (the most logical at any time in the history of the ADF) and the colour patch structure into disarray! In the first AIF there were four infantry battalions to each brigade, and the upper section (or LHS in the case of the 5th Division) of the colour patch identified each one. Usually (but not always!) these colours were: Black - first Purple - second Brown - third White - fourth Thus every battalion had a unique colour patch. Other Arms and Service Corps had variations but those attached to the five divisions generally incorporated the shape of their parent Ddvision. Source: Text taken from The 27th Battalion Centenary: The Historical Record of the 27th Battalions 13th August 1877-1977 and Programme of Centenary Celebrations, Unley SA, 1977 Notes: 1. Strictly speaking there was no such thing as the 'First AIF'. The term is often used unofficially to distinguish the Australian Imperial Force of the First World War from the Second AIF raised to fight in World War 2. 2. The colour patch scheme was first introduced into the AIF in March 1915, just in time for the initial Gallipoli landings. The 2nd Division received its patches in August 1915, and gradually the scheme was expanded to include the whole AIF.
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03_Transcript_-_Part_03_Michael_von_Berg.pdf
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04_Transcript_-_Part_04_Michael_von_Berg.pdf
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D_ENNIS.pdf
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WEATHERS.pdf
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P_WELLS.pdf
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CHINNER_3_.pdf
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Leane_Genealogy.pdf
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HEATH.pdf
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https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=620188&c=WW2#R
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Rowan Boys Jack standing Joe seated. Probably taken at Abbassia towards the end of their Provo training (Circa mid-1916)
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John Talbot Wright, aged 32, a motor mechanic and former chauffeur, was arrested on 11 September 1920 by Constable Cecil Elliott after a sensational car chase through city streets. Wright had stolen a brand-new luxury car, a Studebaker limousine belonging to Albert Cosman Jones, managing director of a company called Australian Motor Services Limited. Jones told the press that he had parked the car in the street outside his flat in Bayswater Road, Rushcutters Bay. He was in conversation with a friend inside the flat when he heard the car being started. Rushing from the apartment, he found Constable Elliott on point duty nearby. Together they commandeered a passing car and gave chase to the limousine, Constable Elliott on the footboard firing his revolver at intervals. Eventually, just outside the Captain Cook Hotel in Paddington, the pursuing car drew abreast of the stolen car and Elliott jumped across to the footboard of the limousine, threatening to shoot the driver if he did not stop.1 Wright’s photograph shows him wearing a Returned from Active Service badge. When he came before the court on Monday 13 September, his solicitor pleaded in his client’s defence that Wright was a returned soldier who had enlisted in 1915 and been wounded in action and ‘badly buried as a result of a shell burst’, and that he was ‘a complete nervous wreck when he arrived home’. The solicitor had a letter from a medical specialist stating that Wright had a ‘morbid mental bearing’.2 The solicitor did not mention that Wright had enlisted under the assumed name Jack Russell, Russell being his mother’s maiden name. As Jack Russell he had embarked for the front on 30 September 1915 with the 4th Reinforcements of the 17th Battalion on HMAT Argyllshire. His service dossier shows that he saw active service in Egypt and on the Western Front, that he spent quite a bit of time in military detention for various offences, and that he was hospitalised on a number of occasions for mostly unspecified ailments, but it has nothing specific to say about his being wounded in action. In any event, when Wright appeared before the committal court in August neither the magistrate nor the police prosecutor was sympathetic to the solicitor’s shell-shock plea, the prosecutor asking: ‘If everyone came before the court with the excuse of shell-shock where would we be?’3 Constable Elliott’s actions, on the other hand, were much acclaimed. He was himself a returned soldier, only 22 years old and a policeman for just seven months. As one journalist put it: ‘Before Elliott joined the force he was engaged in the most exciting of all chases – for Germans in France’.4 1.The National Advocate (Bathurst), 13 September 1920, p1. 2.Evening News, 13 September 1920, p6. 3.Ibid. 4.The National Advocate, op cit.
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Ohlstrom_Diary_1915-1916_compressed.pdf
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VWM0007_Knoblauch_letters.compressed.pdf
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A_POLLITT.pdf
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J_McPHEE.pdf
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R_OCKENDEN.pdf
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L_PARKER.pdf
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2_40th_Battalion3.ppsx
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Colac-Otway-Heritage-Study-Volume-1.pdf
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Memorial plaque to Thomas in the Victorian Garden of Remembrance at the Springvale War Cemetery.
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Military Medal and Bar, the 1914/15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. Image courtesy AWM
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The 102nd Howitzer Battery, Australian Field Artillery using 4.5 inch Q.F. Howitzers, in action in a wheat field on the morning of the start of the advance. Left to right: Gunner (Gnr) T. F. McDermott (1); Gnr C. E. Brasington (2); Gnr George Brasington (3); Bombardier (Bdr) C. R. Newton (4); Corporal (Cpl) G. Moysey (5); Gnr L. C. Bennison (6); Lieutenant (Lt) L. C. Wade (7); Lt Heppingstone (8); Bdr D. J. McAlister (9); Gnr W. H. Whitburn (10); Sergeant (Sgt) J. H. Cooper (11); Gnr J. A. Riley (12); Gnr W. Campbell (13); Bdr H. F. Renton (14); Gnr W. N. McCallum (15); Sgt J. Shingles (16); Lt N. J. Delaney (17); Bdr E. T. Green (18); Gnr Dyson-Holland (19); Gnr F. Renton (20); Major D. Toomey (21).
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AWM P04628.001
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Sgt Bert Smyth, 3rd Battalion
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Pte Bert Smythe
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