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This is an image of the letter that William sent to the camp commander, begging for his discharge.

This photo is of St. Barnabas Church of England, which is where Crowder got married, in 1916.

This image is of a soldier from the 10th battalion at Mena Camp, Egypt playing with a kangaroo, which was the regimental mascot. The soldiers in the background are from the 9th and 10th Battalions, and they are looking towards the pyramids.

This picture is of the ship Ionian that Crowder travelled on to reach Lemnos. He boarded it on the 1/3/1915.

The SA Police WW1 Service Honour Roll

430696 John Ewart "Jack" Norris 460 Sqn RAAF WW2

Morphetville race course - where he trained

Bede DOWD at about the time of his enlistment

Map displaying the defensive layout during the siege during April to May 1941.

Part of a Lancaster Crew of No. 156 Squadron L-R 21442 Pilot Officer Robert Ernest INGLIS (rear gunner) KIA 2 Dec 43 411685 Flight Sergean John Neville EDMONDS (wireless operator) KIA 2 Dec 43 J22068 Flying Officer JV Scrivener RCAF subs bomb aimer subsequently PoW 31 Mar 44 409356 Warrant Officer Reginald Ronald WICKS (pilot) KIA 2 Dec 43 420351 Flight Sergeant Norman McDonald (navigator) PoW 2 Dec 43

ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT, 1915-04-29. THE WHARF AT ALEXANDRIA, SHOWING AMBULANCES WAITING TO TAKE FROM THE STEAMSHIP A.I. IONIAN MEN WOUNDED AT GALLIPOLI 1915-04-25/26 (ANZAC DAY) (DONOR M. HAMILTON)

BRave of Warrant Officer Reginald Russell Wicks - Becklingen War Cemetery

Mustang IIIbs of 19 Squadron April 1944. These aircraft have the 'Maxwell Hood' derived from the Spitfire to give better vision than the standard P51B/C Mustang.

The grave pf Private Edward Burney 32nd Battalion at Pheasant Wood Cemetery Fromelles

Walter WIlloughby HOSKING

F. Aubrey, 11th Light Horse

One of the former 87 Squadron Mosquitos painted red privately registered and sponsored by AMPOOL ready for departure to London for an air race. It never made it crash landing in a swamp in Burma after a bad weather diversion.

In one of the most iconic photos of the Second World War, pilots of No. 87 Squadron scramble to their Hurricane Mk 1 (note the two bladed wooden propellers) in France to engage attacking Luftwaffe aircraft.

87 Squadron Photo Reconnaissance DH 98 Mosquitos

AWM Caption: Coomalie, NT. 21 March 1945. Returning to their North Western Australia base are 402733 Pilot Officer Allan Davies of Wentworth Falls, NSW (left) and his navigator 439909 Flying Officer J. S. Reynolds of North Sydney, NSW. They have their hands full with an aircraft camera, magazine and navigation data as they leave their De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito aircraft of No. 87 (Photograph Reconnaissance Flight) Squadron RAAF.

A Mosquito aircraft of No 87 Squadron RAAF, undergoes an overhaul by unidentified ground crew at Alice Springs, NT. The guns have been removed and a camera placed in the nose of the aircraft in readiness to participate in topographic surveys for the Army. The ground crew are performing maintenance on the undercarriage and in the background is another Mosquito aircraft.

One of the F4 P38 Lightnings operated by 1 PRU. The P38 did not have a very auspicious career with 1 PRU because of chronic unserviceability issues.

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The cover of Gellert's most successful book of poetry, which cemented his reputation as Australia's premier warrior poet of WW1

Back row L-R Malcolm McGhie 10Rft/15th Bn later 4MGCoy and 47th Bn, Jack Judd 12Rft 15th Bn, then 47th Bn and 59th Bn, Gregory Gibson 12Rft 15th Bn then 47Bn, killed at Dernancourt 28/3/18 and buried at Doullens, John Watson 11Rft 15th Bn KIA Bullecourt 11/4/17. Middle Albert Morgan 10Rft 15th Bn, then 47th Bn and Australian Flying Corp, Ernest Corbett, later 46th Bn, Walter Fish, Edmund Hurd 11Rft later 47th Bn and 45th Bns. Front Lennard Wadsley 13Rft 15th Bn then 52nd Bn KIA 10/9/16 Mouquet Farm, Robert Luxton 13Rft KIA 11/4/17 Bullecourt.

392 Sergeant Leon Maxwell GELLERT

Group portrait of the crew of "K" for Kitty, 458 Squadron RAAF after a raid. 458 Squadron was at this stage based in Yorkshire it later transferred to the Middle East. Identified, left to right: 404455 Sergeant (Sgt) James Howard "Rupe" Holmes, captain of Brisbane, Qld; 404611 Sgt Sven Ivanouw Hansen, 2nd pilot of Brisbane, Qld; 1261126 Sgt Les H Empson RAF, front gunner; 407199 Sgt Robert McKerlie (Bob) Croft, rear gunner of Adelaide, SA; probably 404343 Sgt Norman Henry Kobelke, observer of Brisbane, Qld (originally of Bulawayo, Rhodesia); 1283720 Sgt Ken A Cousins, RAF, wireless operator.

The RAAFA Stained Glass Window in the First Floor foyer

The Funeral guard commanded by Captain Damian White of 10/27RSAR and bearing the Battalions Regimental Colour, approaching Courcelete Cemetery

Troops aboard a train bound for Outer Harbour, 1915.

Reginald 'Roy" Inwood, VC. His brother died alongside Arthur Blackburn at Pozieres. Roy Inwood became the 10th Battalion's second VC winner at Polygon Wood during the Third Ypres campaign in September 1917. His VC is on public display in the Adelaide Town Hall.

Surname: GAY; Given Names: Beaumont Colbey; Date of Birth: 24 November 1876; Date of Enlistment: 16 September 1916; Trade or Calling: Railway Employee; Birth Location: Adelaide; Address prior to enlistment: 56 Main North Rd Prospect; Photograph sent by: Mrs B C Gay Source: State Records SA

Surname: HUGHES; Given Names: Wlfred John Mann; Date of Birth: 29 April 1895; Date of Enlistment: 1 February 1915; Trade or Calling: University Student; Birth Location: Adelaide; Address prior to enlistment: Fourth Ave St Peters;

'G for George' is perhaps the best known WW II aircraft in Australia. It has been the centerpiece of the AWM since it was installed in 1955. The aircraft is a Mk1 Lancaster that served for 17 months with 460 Squadron, from 1942 until April 1944, completing 89 missions before being flown to Australia as part of a War Bond fundraising campaign. It famously flew under the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The 460 Squadron Badge and motto "Strike and Return"

Australian soldiers at Messines in July 1917, standing in German trenches demolished by the mine blasts. E00554 AWM

The Vickers Wellington, the type that formed the mainstay of Bomber COmmand until the arrival of the four engine 'heavies'. Later used as a training platform. http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/blogs/44822/attachments/183979d1321936604-vickers-wellington-458-squadron-1942-1943-wellington_0.jpg

MID Medal Set: British War Medal, Victory Medal (with oak leaf symbolising Mentioned In Dispatches)

Detail of Boer War Memorial. Ker's name is mis-spelled.

Slouch Hat memorial adjacent to the Bullecourt church. Steve Larkins collection

The Bullecourt Digger - the famous bronze statue of a digger looking across the Bullecourt battlefield from the town cemetery. Steve Larkins colelction

SX15214, S10005 Gordon NUM

(L to R) Bede Francis Dowd and Robert Burley) at the end of the war. Bede lost an arm after being pinned under his horse and presumed dead in or near Egypt for some time. The photo must have been taken at the end of the war as in this photo he is missing an arm.

3619 Private Edwin Allen

3029 PTE Edwin Charles DAVIS of the 26th Infantry Battalion

Forest-sur-Marque communal cemetery near Lille, France

Men of an Anti Tank Company at Tobruk; The 2nd/3rd Anti Tank Regiment and the 24th and 26th Anti Tanl Companis served at Tobruk.

PORTRAIT OF 8028 DRIVER R.B. COCHRANE, 6TH FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE, KILLED IN ACTION 1916-08-03.