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Ohlstrom MyMaps teacher resource

Ohlstrom_MyMaps_-_Teacher_Resource.pdf
Frank Martin's NAA Service Record

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=2018119
Department of Veterans Affairs - Nominal Roll - Vietnam

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1270858&c=VIETNAM
British War Medal 1914-19
McEwen_ Interview Transcript_Part 1 & 2

01_Transcript_-_Parts__01___02_Laurence_McEwen.pdf
McEwen_Interview Transcript_ Part 6

05_Transcript_-_Part_06_Laurence_McEwen.pdf
ANZAC Spirit School Prize 2012 (Entry 2) - Frank Scott

F_SCOTT_2_.pdf
Australia Remembers (1995) - Charles Morrison's Plaque Sir Donald Bradman Drive near South Rd
ANZAC Spirit School Prize 2012 - Philip Callary

P_I_Callary.pdf
ANZAC Spirit School Prize 2012 - Frank Beck

F_L_BECK.pdf
ANZAC Spirit School Prize 2009 - Lawrence Weathers

WEATHERS.pdf
ANZAC Spirit School Prize 2012 - Thomas Black

BLACK.pdf
ANZAC Spirit School Prize 2010 - John Jacob

JACOB.pdf
Victor Cromwell GARE_ a Biography

81974_-_Victor_Cromwell_Gare__Biography.pdf
Australia Remembers (1995) - Dave Marlin's Plaque Sir Donald Bradman Drive near Verran Avenue
Australia Remembers (1995) - Ray Roberts' Plaque Sir Donald Bradman Drive near Verran Avenue
Rowan Boys Jack standing Joe seated. Probably taken at Abbassia towards the end of their Provo training (Circa mid-1916)

Rowan Boys Jack standing Joe seated. Probably taken at Abbassia towards the end of their Provo training (Circa mid-1916)
Sensational Car Chase

John Talbot Wright, aged 32, a motor mechanic and former chauffeur, was arrested on 11 September 1920 by Constable Cecil Elliott after a sensational car chase through city streets. Wright had stolen a brand-new luxury car, a Studebaker limousine belonging to Albert Cosman Jones, managing director of a company called Australian Motor Services Limited. Jones told the press that he had parked the car in the street outside his flat in Bayswater Road, Rushcutters Bay. He was in conversation with a friend inside the flat when he heard the car being started. Rushing from the apartment, he found Constable Elliott on point duty nearby. Together they commandeered a passing car and gave chase to the limousine, Constable Elliott on the footboard firing his revolver at intervals. Eventually, just outside the Captain Cook Hotel in Paddington, the pursuing car drew abreast of the stolen car and Elliott jumped across to the footboard of the limousine, threatening to shoot the driver if he did not stop.1 Wright’s photograph shows him wearing a Returned from Active Service badge. When he came before the court on Monday 13 September, his solicitor pleaded in his client’s defence that Wright was a returned soldier who had enlisted in 1915 and been wounded in action and ‘badly buried as a result of a shell burst’, and that he was ‘a complete nervous wreck when he arrived home’. The solicitor had a letter from a medical specialist stating that Wright had a ‘morbid mental bearing’.2 The solicitor did not mention that Wright had enlisted under the assumed name Jack Russell, Russell being his mother’s maiden name. As Jack Russell he had embarked for the front on 30 September 1915 with the 4th Reinforcements of the 17th Battalion on HMAT Argyllshire. His service dossier shows that he saw active service in Egypt and on the Western Front, that he spent quite a bit of time in military detention for various offences, and that he was hospitalised on a number of occasions for mostly unspecified ailments, but it has nothing specific to say about his being wounded in action. In any event, when Wright appeared before the committal court in August neither the magistrate nor the police prosecutor was sympathetic to the solicitor’s shell-shock plea, the prosecutor asking: ‘If everyone came before the court with the excuse of shell-shock where would we be?’3 Constable Elliott’s actions, on the other hand, were much acclaimed. He was himself a returned soldier, only 22 years old and a policeman for just seven months. As one journalist put it: ‘Before Elliott joined the force he was engaged in the most exciting of all chases – for Germans in France’.4 1.The National Advocate (Bathurst), 13 September 1920, p1. 2.Evening News, 13 September 1920, p6. 3.Ibid. 4.The National Advocate, op cit.
Advertiser article_War Hero Who time Forgot

War_Hero_Who_Time_Forgot.pdf
Australia Remembers (1995) Memorial Plaques for Madeleine and Gerald Haslett, Sir Donald Bradman Drive Milner Rd HILTON
Biography - Roy Gladstone Quirk

Biography_Roy_Quirk_2017.pdf
25243 FOFF John Francis Tucker, No. 467 Sqn RAAF
ANZAC Spirit School Prize 2015 - Carew Reynell

C_REYNELL.pdf
ANZAC Spirit School Prize 2015 (entry 2) - Carew Reynell

C_REYNELL.pdf
ANZAC Spirit School Prize 2013 - Harold Gooding

H_GOODING.pdf
"Portrait of Walter Leslie Schwarz. He enlisted in the AIF in 1915, but was harassed because of his German name. He deserted in England and joined the Royal Fusiliers under the assumed name of Merritt. He became a lieutenant, won the Military Cross (MC) and bar and was Mentioned in Despatches three times. His right leg was amputated above the knee to save his life after he was wounded at Ledegham on 14 October 1918. To the British he was a hero, but to the Australians he remained a deserter until he was pardoned by King George V in 1921."
George "Sonny" Wright
Charles Harris, Airforce 1941-1945
Map of the northern Spencer Gulf region showing the location of RAAF Crash Fairey Battle L5670 site near Port Pirie
Forgotten Soldiers

http://www.yosselbirstein.org/pdf/eng/other/Forgotten_Soldiers.pdf
May 1940. Paybook photograph of NX15479 Lance Sergeant Campbell William Ellis, 2/4th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Lance Sergeant Ellis, aged 26, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 30 May 1941. He was the son of Mr and Mrs S. Ellis, of Sydney, NSW. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 11. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
1120 John Peter Pearce ARNOLDT 16th Infantry Battalion
A gathering at Australia House in Danang in 1967. From left WO2 J.T DURRINGTON, WO2 P. WHITE, WO2 M. “TEX” SINCLAIR, WO2 D.J. WALLNER, WO2 BRUCE DAVIES, WO2 D.F. FORD, WO2 J.A. BOND, WO2 D.T.POWELL and WO2 R.I. OLIVER. WO2 DURRINGTON and WO2 BOND were late killed in action.
Leighton (WA ) Battery Heritage Site

http://www.artillerywa.org.au/raahs/history.htm
Remembering Ray Hopkins 7th Division Signals
Remembering Ray Paterson 6 Service Flying Training School
Commemorating Colin McFeat's service
Ken Grant Airforce 1940-1946
Kevin Fisher RAAF 1943-1946
A pre-war photograph of Walter Schwarz and his mother. He appears to be in the uniform of a cadet unit. The date is indicative only other than it being prior to the outbreak of war.
Another Frank Hurley / George Wilkins image of the crew of a 9.2 inch Howitzer of the 55th Siege Battery, at night in gas masks. The gun's barrel is lowered to facilitate loading the heavy shell into the their gun. The soldier in the foreground is holding a long rod mop with which the chamber and bore are swabbed between rounds to eliminate any burning residue. These guns were more like a naval gun in that they dod not use a cartridge case - rather a 'bag charge' comprising calico bags of cordite, ignited by a 'vent tube' ( similar to a blank rifle cartridge) triggered by a lanyard device. Hence a very moderate rate of fire, compared to a 'Quick Firing (QF) cartridge case system.

Another Frank Hurley image of the crew of a 9.2 inch Howitzer of the 55th Siege Battery, at night in gas masks loading their gun. The soldier in the foreground is holding a long rod mop with which the chamber and bore are swabbed between rounds to eliminate any burning residue
The 54th Siege Battery in action in support of the Third Ypres campaign in September 1917. The guns are 8 inch howitzers, the shells for which have been shipped in by light rail right to the gun position. Note the box trail and the cutout into which the breech recoils allowing maximum elevation. These images were taken by renowned photographers Frank Hurley and George (later Sir Hubert) Wilkins. See the video link in the sidebar.

The 54th Siege Battery in action in support of the Third Ypres campaign in September 1917. The guns are 8 inch howitzers, the shells for which have been shipped in by light rail right to the gun position. This is one of a series of photographs taken by Official War Photographer Frank Hurley.
Part of a large collection of photographs held by the State Library of SA relating to the activities of the Volunteer Defence Corps in SA during WW2. This image shows soldiers training on a WW1 vintage German MG08.15 one of many brought back to Australia as war trophies and often held in RSL halls. Ammunition would have been a challenge as it was not a standard Commonwealth supply item!
The crew members of a Halifax stationed at Driffield; left to right top to bottom: Jack Venning DFC, rear gunner, Flying Officer Colin J Challis DFC, mid upper gunner, Flying Officer Jack McCarthy DFC, wireless (radio) operator, Flight Lieutenant J Nicholas (or Nicholson), flight engineer, Flying Officer George Robinson DFC, bomb aimer, Squadron Leader John Good DFC and Bar, pilot, and Flying Officer Harold Olaf Stenborg. The men are dressed in their flying uniforms and are pictured with an eagle hovering above their heads in the background. Bowen also shows the hands of each of the crew members carrying out their individual characteristic activities.

Art Work of Halifax crew at Driffield U.K. by Stella Bowen (Jack Venning top left)
417812 Flight Sergeant Ronald Irving Cummings (3rd from right - back row)

417812 Flight Sergeant Ronald Irving Cummings (3rd from right - back row)
Studio portrait of 1175 Acting Sergeant Herbert Andrew Smythe, F Company, 3rd Battalion, of Gladesville, NSW. Corporal (Cpl) Smythe enlisted on 21 August 1914 and embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Euripides on 20 October 1915. He was killed in action at the second battle of Bullecourt on 3 May 1917. His brother Viv wrote the following notes referring to the location of his brother's burial on the back of the photograph 'OG2. Hindenburg Line E. of Bullecourt. Buried in trench 3rd bay to left of dugout to L (left) of sap leading to OG1 next to T.M. position. Map reference. France 51BSW, 1/20,000, U23C 4.25. 2.5.' This grave was not located at the end of the First World War and he is memorialised at Villers-Bretonneux. Cpl Smythe is one of four Smythe brothers, they were: Major Edward Vivian "Viv" Smythe MC and Bar, 17th and later 24th Battalion; Lieutenant Percy Ellesmere Smythe MC, 3rd and later 24th Battalion and Captain Vernon Erle Smythe MC and Bar, 3rd, 4th and later 56t Battalion, and a brother-in-law, Lieutenant George Roy McPhee Croix de Guerre, who all served with the AIF.

AWM P04628.001
Sgt Bert Smyth, 3rd Battalion

Sgt Bert Smyth, 3rd Battalion
Pte Bert Smythe

Pte Bert Smythe

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