Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

75 Squadron DH Vampires based in Malta 1954

Typical scene, Menin Road (near Ypres) near where Sapper CSA Campbell was killed, 18 September 1917

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

Thomas Harvey's ID disc - an artefact of the

Outdoor group portrait of six signallers in the snow. Identified back row, left to right: 19636 Gunner (Gnr) Reginald Sylvester Mason; 19822 Gnr Gilbert James Simmonds; 19657 Stanley Clarence Whiting; 19806 Gnr Lewis Ewen McKenzie (later MM). Front row, seated: 19616 Gnr Frank Orman Ball and 19634 Gnr Allan Lyle McPherson (later MM). These men embarked for service overseas with the 8th Field Artillery Brigade aboard HMAT Medic (A7) on 20 May 1916 (Gnrs McPherson, Whiting and Ball from Sydney and Gnrs McKenzie and Simmonds from Melbourne). Gnr Mason, a printer from Corrowa, NSW, prior to enlistment, died of wounds in Belgium on 27 September 1917, aged 22. The other five men survived the war.

WW1 medal set with MID - L-R 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal with MID clasp

Australian WW2 medal set for service in the South West Pacific - 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, 1939-45 War Medal, Australian Service Medal 39-45

L-R British War Medal and Victory Medal

Private Edwin Bavister joined the 25th Battalion of the Australian Infantry on 28 December 1915 and was killed in action in France on 18 July 1918. His memorial is at the war cemetery in Villers-Bretonneux, France. He was a grocer at Dinmore and 25 years old when he died.

Flying Officer Gwynne Thomas - detail from AWM

FSGT Len Henderson in the rear turret of Lancaster JO-K - later lost on 7 Dec 1944

Gilbert Pate shortly after qualifying as a Wireless Operator wearing his brevet for his craft

Flying Officer Robert McKerlie Croft

Mk21 Beaufighters just after delivery to No. 93 Squadron after its formation in early 1945, at Kingaroy Queensland.

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

1091 Jack Leslie WOODALL's headstone in Yass Cemetery

Richard FETHERSTON - Postcard to Work Colleagues in Australia

SX10573 Cecil Mark KROEMER 2nd/42rd Battalion

1986 Robert William LAKIN 9 Light Horse Regiment / 54th Battery14th Field Artillery Brigade

3994 Private Frederick William TRENDELL

A Bulldozer of No. 5 Airfield Construction Squadron at work in a coral quarry on Noemfoor Island in late 1944

David Leicester DFC and Bar

Vietnam War Memorial, Adelaide, South Australia

1344 Private Albert LAMBERT

The explosion of the MV Neptuna and clouds of smoke from oil storage tanks, hit during the first Japanese air raid on Australia's mainland, at Darwin on February 19, 1942. In the foreground is HMAS Deloraine, which escaped damage.

No. 19 Course at ATS Somers Victoria 27 Aug 1941. Reg Bain circled in red.

Transferred to the RAF pre War

1914/15 Star 22919 War Memorial 18924 Victory Medal 18855

Philip Bonhotte's distinctive medal set. L-R Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal. Accumulated in just two years active service and just 24 years old at the time of his death on 24/5 April 1918

Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal, 39-45 War Medal, 39-45 Australian Service Medal

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=7365874

http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/bombercommandno35squadron.cfm

https://billiongraves.com/grave/Albert-Percival-Brook/11246864

https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R2027389/

http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=61&c=5123

www.youtube.com/watch?v=305OVtcvJn8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305OVtcvJn8

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/poor-devils--the-battle-of-pozieres

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/from-prisoner-to-guard--leslie-parish

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https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4738871

http://stories.anmm.gov.au/ae1/the-search-for-ae1/

http://stories.anmm.gov.au/ae1/commemorating-ae1/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:No._466_Squadron_RAAF

http://yorkshireairmuseum.org

http://aircrewremembered.com/humphreys-james-1.html

http://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=806088&c=WW2#R

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151682812

http://www.bacchusmarsh.avenueofhonour.org.au/