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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.

No. 76 Swuadorn - BCOF Japan 1947 BOFU, JAPAN. 1947-07-15. PILOTS FROM 76 SQUADRON, 81ST FIGHTER WING, RAAF, GET A FINAL BRIEFING NEAR THEIR AIRCRAFT FROM THEIR FLIGHT LEADER FOR THEIR DAYS DUTY OVER THE BCOF AREA. SHOWN: 50971 WARRANT OFFICER N. J. BAX OF BALRANALD, NSW; WARRANT OFFICER V. G. BARKELL OF CONCORD, NSW; 115515 WARRANT OFFICER J. C. SAMPSON OF WARRAMBOO, SA; WARRANT OFFICER S. W. WILLIAMSON OF ST KILDA, VIC; 418588 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT D. V. TERRY OF ELWOOD, VIC, FLIGHT LEADER.

The grave of Captain Herman Fritz Hubbe at Albert cemetey

James Tyner's Medal Set - L-R 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Private Leslie Robert Templeman

Service number 18488 George Bentley Pegler, a staff member of the South Australian Harbors Board. George enlisted in the AIF on 26 October 1917 and served in France with the Australian Army Medical Corps. He returned to Australia in 1919. From 1923 to his death in 1950 he held the position of Harbourmaster at Cowell.

3294 PTE Leslie DOWDELL RH#11

935 Private Frank Oliver SCUTT 43rd Battalion RH#15

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

7024 Gordon Alexander LAING RH#24

3639 Audley Esmond WEBSTER RH#25

Heilly Station Cemetery

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

A Lancaster crew of No 467 Squadron, RAAF, at Bottesford, Leicestershire, preparing to set off for Berlin on the evening of 31 August 1943. They are, from left: Flight Sergeants J Scott, G. Eriksen and A Boys, Sergeant C Adair, Flight Sergeant B Jones (Captain), Flight Sergeant J Wilkinson and Sergeant E Tull, RAF, the only Englishman in the crew. This aircraft is 'M for Mother' at this time a veteran of 40 missions. It appears in two other published images, one of which was close-up of the nose art on the aircraft (AWM UK UK0463). It also appears in another image on this site, with a different crew later in 1943 by which time it had racked up 53 missions.

Ship's Company of HMAS Perth at Fremantle 6 August 1941

Etaples CWGC Cemetery - the largest in France. Most burials here had died of their wounds at various points along the casualty evacuation.

RH Panel Image #3 - Private Robert John Penny

Spr John Frederick BOARDMAN 6393

Sister M Hall, Moonee Ponds Baby Health Centre, 1950

No. 77 Driver Sidney John PENHALIGON from the Queenslander 12 Jun 1915

No. 77 Driver Sidney John PENHALIGON -from the Queenslander 31 Oct 1914

Thomas Harvey's ID disc - an artefact of the

Flight Sergeant Norman MacDOnald's 'Catepillar Club' badge

Lieutenant Leonard Gurner, 60th Infantry Battalion AIF

WW1 medal set embarkation pre Dec 1915. 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

WW1 medal set - embarkation before 31 Dec 1915. 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

WW1 post 31 Dec 1915 embarkation: L-R Military Cross, British War Medal, Victory Medal.

London Cemetery and Extension at Longueval, from the entrance Portico.

Sergeant Brian Gordon GRASBY on completion of his aircrew training

429369 FO Richard Rodney (Rod) Young, 463 Sqn RAAF. FO Thomas wrote on the back of the image "Out for a ride in the sunny English Country in summer. At Church Broughton, Derbyshire, July 1944".

Flying Officer Gwynne THOMAS and Flying Officer Rodney YOUNG, cycling near Church Broughton in Derbyshire in July 1944. Five months later, on the night of 6/7 December, the men were serving aboard Lancaster PB290 JO-K as Wireless Operator and Pilot respectively, when it failed to return from a raid on railyards at Geissen Germany

Flying Officer Robert McKerlie Croft

7083 Private Robert William Thompson

1617 Richard Abel, 47th Battalion, and his sons 1619 Richard James Abel and 1618 Sydney Clement Abel. Father and Sons all volunteers.

Close up study of this superbly detailed statue. Aficionados who look closely enough (at the actual statue) may detect an intriguing anomaly

6408 PTE Alfred Ernest NICHOLLS

A group of nine midshipmen studying on board HMAS Australia in the presence of their instructor, Instructor Lieutenant Commander Charles Reed Franklin, RAN (standing). Midshipmen identified left to right: Midshipman Ross Valdar Wheatley, RAN; Midshipman Peter Corsar Anderson, RAN; Midshipman Francis Hoddinett Vail, RAN; Midshipman John Malet Armstrong, RAN (hidden at rear); Midshipman Robert Cameron Casey, RAN (rear); Midshipman Norman Hamon Shaw, RAN; Midshipman Joseph William Morgan, RAN; Midshipman Gilbert Tootal Broadhurst, RAN; Midshipman John Francis Rayment, RAN

Group portrait of instructors and pupils of the 1st flying training course in front of a B.E.2a aircraft in a hangar. Back row: R Williams; T W White. Front row: George Pinnock Merz of Ballarat, Vic; H A Petre; E Harrison; D T Manwell. WIlliams went on to become 'The Father of hte RAAF'. White served in the Middle East and was captured and imprisoned by the Turks for 2 1/2 years before an epic escape. Merz was the first Australian Military aviator killed in action, in Mesopotamia.

Vietnam War Memorial, Adelaide, South Australia

WW2 Aircrew Europe post D-Day 1944 operations over Europe, Distinguished Service: L-R Distinguished Flying Cross, 1939/45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, British Commonwealth War Medal 1939/45 and the Australian War Service Medal.

1344 Private Albert LAMBERT

The Noonan SA Police Heavyweight Boxing Championship Trophy Belt won by Tom Tobin 1938-1940. On display in Police Headquarters

Newspaper CLippings recording the 1938 bout, the first of three in succession won by PC Tom Tobin

Australia's first military radio transmission / reception - Station B - a a cave near Waterfall Railway Station

17184 PTE Percy Flanigan

Pte Nash, of Victoria, Australia served with A Company. He died on 24 July 1916, aged 21, of wounds received in the Australian charge at Fleurbaix during 19 - 23 July 1916. In this action, which formed part of the Battle of the Somme, (Ed note: this is not technically correct - the Somme is much further south) Australian troops attempted to advance but were pinned down by German forces located behind them as well as in front of them. Cut off, they charged the German lines in an attempt to return to their original point of advance.

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