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Effect: Matilda Tanks destroyed by the Japanese naval guns emplaced at Mangam, Borneo

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Memorial Panel RSL Memorial Hall Ground Floor

Crimerian Cannons

Crimerian Cannons

A map illustrating the orientation of forces at Fromelles. "Western Front 1916-17 The Price of Honour" Laffin Time Life Books 1987

Howard Pope is presented with the French Legion d'Honeur at the Australian National Memorial, Villers Bretoneaux, France as part of ceremonies marking the 80th Anniversary of the cessation of Hostilities in the Great War

2017_Metala_Burgess_Claude_Vivian_Radford.pdf

2017_Hannah_Brown_Evelyn_Claire_Trestrail.pdf

Rededication_Booklet_Final_2019.pdf

140129_Tom_Tobin_Memoire.pdf

No. 467 Squadron's 'S for Sugar' being bombed up at Waddington Yorkshire. This redoubtable airframe survived the war having completed 132 missions. It is reserved in the RAF Museum at Hendon near London.

Troops burying Japanese dead in a mass grave after the overnight fighting at SLater's Knoll.

A 2 pounder (37mm) Anti Tank Gun firing at Japanese positions on Bougainville

Studio portrait of 405605 Aircraftman Walter Henry Rose of Cloncurry, Qld.

Hand coloured studio portrait of Pilot Officer Henry Rose, DFC, of No. 156 Squadron (RAF), Pathfinder Force

10185 Jack 'Lucky' Reed

3697 PTE Patrick Weir 3rd Pioneer Battalion

Military Medal, G.V.R. (3958 Pte. G. H. Trew. 2Aust: Inf:); British War Medal 1914-20 (3958 Pte. G. H. Trew. 2Bn. A.I.F.) ‘3’ officially corrected; War Medal 1939-45 (N65913 G. H. Trew); Australia Service Medal (N65913 G. H. Trew), Second War Medals officially impressed, mounted for display

LTCOL Steve Larkins Commanding Officer 9th Combat Service Support Battalion 2000-2001

Far and away: The young Private Bill Cassidy spent five of the eight years of his marriage away at war.

Far and away: The young Private Bill Cassidy spent five of the eight years of his marriage away at war.

Studio portrait of 420870 Pilot Officer (PO) William Eldred Felstead, No. 467 Squadron, RAAF, of Sydney, NSW. A clerk prior to enlisting in December 1941, PO Felstead trained as a pilot in Australia, Canada and England with the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS). On 10 May 1944, PO Felstead was piloting Lancaster LL788, radio call sign PO-G, which exploded and crashed while on operations over Lille, France. PO Felstead and the six other crew members on board were killed. PO Felstead was 22 years of age.

THOMAS, David John, Service No: 561, Unit: 44th Infantry Battalion STRAND MILITARY CEMETERY Grave II. D. 9.

The best tunnelling conditions were in the great chalk seams running across northern France. Excavation generally had to be conducted with great care to conceal t he diggings and where in the proximity of enemy miners, to prevent detection by listening devices. Men of the 3rd Australian Company excavating a chamber in the chalk in the Hulluch subway system. The chalk was dug out with miners' picks and filled into bags. These bags were trucked along the gallery to suitable positions, hauled to the surface and emptied at night. In places where the chalk crumbled, the walls had to be revetted, as is seen on the left. Identified left to right: Captain R. J. Langton MC, Officer Commanding, No. 1 Section (holding bag); 1194 Sapper (Spr) D. C. Vecchia; 6772 Spr C. A. L. Robinson, all members of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company.

Sister Ellen Keats, 2nd/10th Australian General Hospial

Australian Army Nursing Sisters Ellen Keats and Elizabeth Pyman. Ellen Keats was evacuated from Singapore on the ill-fated SS VYner Brooke and was murdered by her Japanese captros at Banka Island. Sister Pyman was more fortunate being evacuated on another ship and returning safely to Australia

A commemorative coin marking the 75th Anniversary of the loss of the SS Vyner Brooke

Australian Army Nursing Sisters Ellen Keats and Elizabeth Pyman. Ellen Keats was evacuated from Singapore on the ill-fated SS VYner Brooke and was murdered by her Japanese captros at Banka Island. Sister Pyman was more fortunate being evacuated on another ship and returning safely to Australia

'White Coolies' originally published in 1954, re-released and the basis for the movie "Paradise Road"

Members of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company excavating at Hooge, in the Ypres Sector. Work on these dugouts constituted a record for Tunnelling Companies employed under such conditions, for the ground, in close proximity to the famous Hooge Crater, was a shell churned marsh and soakage was heavy. Accommodation was dug for two Brigades and Headquarters of one Machine Gun Company. Commenced on 5 June 1917, the task was completed and dugouts handed over to the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Brigades on 19 September, for the use of the troops engaged in the operation of the following day. Identified, foreground, left to right: two unidentified members of the 56th Battalion; 5488 Sapper (Spr) C. G. Allcock (third from left, looking at camera); unidentified member of the 56th Battalion (working with Allcock). Background, left to right: 5529 Spr H. J. Edmonds; 5374 Second Corporal E. S. Sherrin (resting against sandbags); 3688 Spr J. Tither; 3363 Spr J. E. Rimmer (pushing upright cart); 5380 Spr J. W. Mcdonough (second from right); 5555 Spr J. J. Horne (extreme right).

Map illustrating the results of the major battles comprising Third Ypres; Menin Road 20 Sep 17, Polygon Wood 26 Sep 17, Broodseinde Ridge 4 Oct 17 and Passchendaele 12-24 Oct 17.

An artists rendition of the attack by 15 Brigade north of the village of Villers-Bretonneux on the evening of 24/5 April 2018

An Australian patrol lays up in an anti-tank ditch near the perimeter of the Australian defences around Tobruk. AWM 020779 . This appears to be a posed photo as the men are carrying no visible equipment or ammunition pouches and only their weapons (SMLE .303 rifles and .45 calibre Thompson sub machine guns). The term anti tank ditch seems ambitious as its hard to see that ditch causing any delay to a tank moving at speed.

Lieutenant General (later Sir) Leslie Mooreshead, General Officer Commanding the 9th Division at Tobruk. A one-time teacher, Gallipoli veteran and renowned as a disciplinarian, he was nick-named 'Ming the Merciless' by his troops after a cartoon character of the time.

Herbert Kernot's ID discs