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Private Roy BOARDMAN,

David Taylor's grave alongside his comrades from the 32 Squadron Hudson A16-201

Vickers Warwick and crew including P/Offr John "Bart" Bartholomew 1st left, the Navigator. This crew was involved in a near disaster and their aircraft was lost after an emergency landing and runway overshoot brought on by an Engine Failure (and fire) After Take-Off (EFATO), resulting in the aircraft overshooting the runway and crashing into the sea. All of the crew survived. Crew in front of their Warwick `B4` L to R: Nav F/O Bart Bartholomew, 2/Pilot H.Bath, W/AG Ted Russell, Pilot Jack Murray, W/AG Cledwyn Evans, W/AG Colin Acton and A/G F/O C.H.Haywood. Photo: Ted Russell.

Vickers Warwick and crew including P/Offr John "Bart" Bartholomew 1st left, the Navigator. This crew was involved in a near disaster and their aircraft was lost after an emergency landing and runway overshoot brought on by an Engine Failure (and fire) After Take-Off (EFATO), resulting in the aircraft overshooting the runway and crashing into the sea. All of the crew survived. Crew in front of their Warwick `B4` L to R: Nav F/O Bart Bartholomew, 2/Pilot H.Bath, W/AG Ted Russell, Pilot Jack Murray, W/AG Cledwyn Evans, W/AG Colin Acton and A/G F/O C.H.Haywood. Photo: Ted Russell.

HMAS Canberra running underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge, under construction in this 1930 photograph

Unidentified solder entering tunnel under Hill 60, near Ypres

Coomalie Creek, NT. 20 January 1943. A group portrait of pilots and observers of No. 31 Squadron RAAF standing on and in front of a Squadron Bristol Beaufighter aircraft. Left to right: front (standing): Pilot Officer Cormie; 260740 Flight Lieutenant John Alfred Madden; Squadron Leader G. W. Savage; Sergeant Barnett; Squadron Leader E. Cook; Flight Lieutenant G. A. Greenwood; Flight Lieutenant P. E. Beven; Flying Officer J. D. Entwhistle; Flying Officer D. Delaporte. In front Sergeant B. Agnew (holding a dog). Note the mascots, a Joey (young kangaroo) in front of the group and the dog held by Sergeant Agnew.

Lieutenant Leonard Gurner, 60th Infantry Battalion AIF

RAAF WW2 Europe medal set - L-R 1939-45 Star (6 months O/S service) , Aircrew Europe Star (operational service over NW Europe up to D Day 5 6 June 1944), Defence Medal (service in a defended area), British War Medal 39-45, Australian War Service Model 39-45.

Portrait of Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams, KBE CB DSO, Royal Australian Air Force.

AWM Photograph P07344.002

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Enid Mundy, Airforce, 1941- 1946.

SX24340 Vernon Vane GILES 108 LAA Regt

Grave of 425413 FSGT Alistair Dale Johnston, the Wireless Operator of 467 Squadron Lancaster PO-B for 'Baker' on 10/11 May 1944

ANZAC DAY 2020 - 1091 Jack Leslie WOODALL's headstone in Yass Cemetery

Burnside Memorial to the Fallen at Rose Park SA

George Arthur Debnam, Phoebe Debnam and their son, George Parkman Debnam. This is a compsite image. George Parkman DOW Gallipoli September 1915, before his father enlisted, aged 50, in February 1917. He survived the War

7083 Private Robert William Thompson, with his motherless little children prior to Embarkation

Flying Officer Robert McKerlie Croft

NF462502 Gunner Norma Vesta MEAKIN's headstone at Rookwood War Cemetery

NX3689 Oliver Edward Ward known to his family as "Chubby" or "Uncle Chubb" - photo believed to have been taken in Egypt in 1941

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.

Private VERE PARKINSON

Two members of the 14th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Gunners Tommy Hill and Neil Cook engage Japanese aircraft during the Darwin Air Raid of 19 February 1942, with a WW1 vintage Lewis Gun, in a work by official war artist Roy Hodgkinson, first published in the WW2 Journal 'Khaki and Green' under the ID of 'B5/B7'.

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

Transferred to the RAF pre War

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