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Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery and in the distance the tower of the Australian National Memorial

George Mitchell shortly before the award of the Military Cross at Dernancourt

G for George a tribute to all RAAF Aircrew who flew with RAF Bomber Command

A No. 431 Squadron Lancaster B Mk III running up its engines.

A No. 431 Squadron Lancaster B Mk III running up its engines.

The grand entrance to Kensal Green Cemetery, London W10 AR4

Short ‘Empire’, VH-ABB ‘Coolangatta’ of QANTAS. Impressed by RAAF as A18-13 and allocated to 11 Squadron RAAF. It was returned to QANTAS on 13 July 1943, but crashed in Sydney Harbour on 11 October 1944.

Cover of the History of 2 OTU

HMAS Perth engaged in the Battle of Sunda Strait 1 March 1942, during which both HMAS Perth and USS Houston were sunk.

Approximate dispositions of the Battle of Sunda Strait 1 March 1942

Northern Australia. Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina flying boat aircraft, RAAF serial no. A24-53, ?No.11 or No. 20 Squadron RAAF, taxiing into water with assistance from RAAF personnel. This aircraft was delivered to the RAAF in 1943-04 and shot down over Balikpapan, Borneo 1944-04.

Short ‘Empire’, VH-ABB ‘Coolangatta’ of QANTAS. Impressed by RAAF as A18-13 and allocated to 11 Squadron RAAF. It was returned to QANTAS on 13 July 1943, but crashed in Sydney Harbour on 11 October 1944.

Short ‘Empire’, VH-ABB ‘Coolangatta’ of QANTAS. Impressed by RAAF as A18-13 and allocated to 11 Squadron RAAF. It was returned to QANTAS on 13 July 1943, but crashed in Sydney Harbour on 11 October 1944.

Informal portrait of 407016 Squadron Leader W. K. Bolitho DFC of Mannum, SA, pilot, of No. 11 (Catalina) Squadron RAAF.

Portrait of Captain J. A. COLLINS, June 1940 while Captain of of HMAS SYDNEY (II)

Driver John Pressey BAVIN. 9th Light Horse Regiment

RH Panel #135 2249 Trooper Harold Basil ADDEMS

Lance Corporal Frank Albert BROWN, 43rd Infantry Battalion RH # 65

Private later Lance Corporal Frank Albert BROWN 43rd Bn AIF

Fred Barson, June 1917 Hurdcott England

Private James BYRNE originally from Beachport, late of Mt Gambier. 10th Bn later Div Traffic Control (MPs)

Edmund Newman LAMB, 1915

2207 PTE Sydney South , 2nd Battalion KIA at Lone Pine

The Burnside Primary School Memorial Gates, officially dedicated in 1925 to former students who lost their lives in the Great War.

Map depicting the Battle for Greece, and key German axes of advance and key battles.

Australian troops crammed on to the deck of a warship bound for Greece

Wing Commander Hughie Edwards

Edwards with his wife, left, and mother-in-law, right, leaving Buckingham Palace after attending an investiture ceremony at which he was awarded the VC.

A portrait made by celebrated war artist Stella Bowen who painted a series of portraits of Australian aircrew in England during 1944.

Edwards with his wife, left, and mother-in-law, right, leaving Buckingham Palace after attending an investiture ceremony at which he was awarded the VC.

Sir Hughie Edwards medals and decorations: VC, DSO, OBE, DFC, 1939-45 Star, Aircrew Europe Star, Africa Star, Burma Star, Defence Medal, British War Medal 1939-45, General Service Medal (Malaya) clash, QE II Coronation Medal, QE II Silver Jubilee Medal. KCMG and CB are neck decorations not shown in this set.

SIr Hughie Edwards as Governor of WA 1974-75

ACDRE Edwards's Medal Group and Neck decorations displayed in the AWM Canberra.

Group Captain Hughie Edwards VC DSO DFC meeting the Prime Minister of Australia at RAAF Binbrook where Edwards was the Base Commander and RAAF No. 460 Squadron was based.

The cover of Arthur Hoyle's biography of Highie Edwards featuring the STella Bown portrait.

The cover of Arthur Hoyle's biography of Highie Edwards featuring the STella Bown portrait.

A No. 18 Squadron B-25 after a forced landing when a main undercarriage leg collapsed.

The No. 18 Squadron disbandment parade

No. 2 Squadron B-25s lined up at Batchelor in the NT

Lt Marjorie Hill, physiotherapist, treats a patient at 109 AGH, Alice Springs, 1942.

109 AGH, Alice Springs, marquee and tented section

Physios Audrey Simpson (l), Marjorie Hill (c) and N H Burgess (r) doing plaster work at 109 AGH, Alice Springs, 1942

2/4 AGH, Labuan, Borneo, 1945

2/4 Australian General Hospital, Labuan, Borneo 1945

Ward at 2/4 Australian General Hospital, Labuan, Borneo 1945

The Cross of Sacrifice at the CWGC section of Kensal Green All Souls cemetery

Kensal Green Cemetery is a remarkable heritage site in which are interred a large range of notable personalities in modern English history.

Informal portrait of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris KCB OBE AFC, Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Bomber Command, with members of No. 460 Squadron RAAF, the original RAAF Lancaster Squadron in RAF Bomber Command, during his visit to the squadron at RAF station Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England. Identified from left to right: 425080 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Jack Venning of Gympie, Queensland (later awarded DFC); 21082 Flt Sgt Thomas Lloyd Walkley of Craigieburn, Victoria; 414044 Flt Sgt Geoffrey Stewart Jordan of Sydney, NSW; 413986 Fl Sgt Wilfred Cyril Gordon of Raleigh, NSW (later awarded DFC); 414232 Fl Sgt Mervyn Edgar Hamilton of Brisbane, Queensland (killed on flying operations over the Netherlands on 15 August 1944); 420892 Pilot Officer (PO) Noel Knight of Coonabarabran, NSW (later awarded DFC); 414019 Flt Sgt Jan Goulevitch of Townsville, Queensland (later awarded DFC); 400102 Wing Commander Robert Alexander Norman DFC, Commanding Officer; 409632 Flt Sgt Samuel Whiteside of Korumburra South, Victoria (killed on flying operations over Germany on 27 January 1944); 14744 Flt Sgt Colin Stafford Francis of Summerhill, NSW (later awarded DFC); Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris KCB OBE AFC; 405909 Flt Sgt Ernest William Joseph Hurley of Ipswich, Queensland (killed on flying operations over Germany, 27 January 1944); 408559 PO Edward Hasall Anderson of Melbourne, Victoria; 412810 Flight Lieutenant James Robert Henderson of Sydney, NSW (later awarded DFC and DSO); 400577 Squadron Leader Kenneth David Baird DFC of Ballarat, Victoria; 422468 Flt Sgt John Joseph Egan (later awarded DFC) of Bankstown, NSW; and 414349 Flt Sgt William Kevin Halstead of Townsville, Queensland (killed on flying operations over the UK on 16 December 1943).

1696 Private Milo James MORRISON 2nd Battalion

Capt Hyman SYMONDS