Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Private Thomas MALONEY, RH#18

Private Roy BOARDMAN,

Thomas Yapp's medal set: British War medal Victory Medal

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

CALLANDER Arthur Stanley 3047 Pte 27th Bn

Sappers work on dugout near Hooge Crater, near Ypres, September 1917

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

The crew of Lancaster ME 851 'PO B' BackRow, L-R Sgt Edmund Goode RAFVR Flight Engineer, FSgt William Paul, FSgt David Paterson, FSgt Arthur Jenkins A/G, Front Row D Stevenson (not on the fatal flight), P/O Wilson Wright (Nav), FSgt James Ewen, FLt William Murphy RCAF

Lignieres de Touraine

Lieutenant Leonard Gurner, 60th Infantry Battalion AIF

WW1 medal set embarkation pre Dec 1915. 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

WW1 medal set - embarkation before 31 Dec 1915. 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Jamestown HB02 - Jamestown & DIstrict Honour Board

WW2 pacific medal set - L-R; Pacific Star, British War Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45

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

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.

An excellent side on photograph of Short Sunderland of No. 228 Squadron at low level, in an early camouflage colour scheme, while operating from Malta in 1941.

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

London Cemetery and Extension at Longueval, from the entrance Portico.

Sergeant Brian Gordon GRASBY on completion of his aircrew training

SX24340 Vernon Vane GILES 108 LAA Regt

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

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45743791

96826 Myrtle May MacGinnes (Girlie)

6408 PTE Alfred Ernest NICHOLLS

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

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

Flying Officer David Payne Croston, 463 Squadron.

463-squadron Lancaster 'S for Sugar' bombing-up at RAF Waddington. The large cylindrical bomb is an 8,000lb 'blockbuster' a larger version of the 4,000ln 'Cookie'.

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.

Vietnam War Memorial, Adelaide, South Australia

1344 Private Albert LAMBERT

A Spitfire Mk XIV in the colours of No. 91 Sqn summer of 1944

Transferred to the RAF pre War

Military Medal, British South African Medal, 1914.15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1455336/KENYON,%20JOHN%20EDWARD

https://2nd31stbattalion.wordpress.com/

http://www.158squadron.co.uk/memorial

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/john-simpson-kirkpatrick-and-his-donkey

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/major-funding-injection-for-rsl-virtual-war-memorial

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/research/home-page-archives/the-first-australian-battalion-with-national-servicemen-in-vietnam--5-rar-may-1966

https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/prisoners-of-war

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=33455

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._76_Squadron_RAAF