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4501 BALLARD, PTE H.E.32nd and 50th Battalions

4501 Pte Herbert Edward Ballard

Stonehaven War Memorial Panel

Two 11 Squadron Catalinas over Lake Macquarie in NSW. Rathmines, on the edge of the lake, was a key base and depot for Australia's maritime patrol assets.

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

A medium trench mortar and crew of the 3rd Australian Medium Trench Mortar Battery, 2nd Division, in action in a farmhouse 400 yards from the German front lines. Gun position selected and made use of to support Infantry raid prior to attack on Morlancourt village. Left to right: Lieutenant (Lt) J. Arthur; Lt L. C. Reeves; Gunner (Gnr) W. Commons, holding cleaning rod; Gnr G. Parker, loading mortar; Corporal P. Barber.

Discharge Certificate (original) Edward Hewlett, 43 Bn AIF

Discharge Certificate (original) Edward Hewlett, 43 Bn AIF - obverse

Albert James DUNSTER's headstone at Trois Arbres Cemetery

The River Murray near Waikerie South Australia

The victorious 1913 Waikerie Football team taken after they won the Grand Final against Morgan. Having won it for the third time in succession they 'retired' the trophy as was the practice at the time.

The victorious 1913 Waikerie Football team taken after they won the Grand Final against Morgan. Having won it for the third time in succession they 'retired' the trophy as was the practice at the time.

A M2A2 105mm howitzer fires in support of 1 RAR from FSB Coral

Map illustrating the relative position of AO Surfers, Saigon and the Australian base at Nui Dat

Private Paul ANdrew LARGE was a national service conscript from Coolah in Queensland, and part of D Company 6RAR. He was one of the 17 soldiers of D Company killed in action in the course of the Battle of Long Tan.

3RAR Defensive positions at Balmoral. The soldiers are wearing steel helmets and they have a very well prepared fully 'dug in' weapon pit prepared to 'Stage 3' complete with sleeping bays with overhead protection (sandbags) to protect against artillery and mortar splinters.

A Centurion tank in position behind a protective bund at FSB Balmoral

QX10333 CPL Athol Bayly - SIgnatures of Sqn personnel in a group photo

A SQN in Syria

QX10333 CPL Athol 'Ned' Bayly - Crossing the equator certificate on the way to Middle East aboard the Queen May

Wirraways of No. 2 SFTS, c. July 1941; No. 7 SFTS also operated the type, and inherited aircraft from No. 2 SFTS when it disbanded in April 1942

418913 Flying Officer Norman Jack Bowman

The Magill Soldiers' Memorial Opening

PORTRAIT OF 405054 FLYING OFFICER B. W. KLEMM, BRISBANE, QLD, AN RAAF AIR GUNNER IN A MITCHELL MEDIUM BOMBER OF NO. 180 SQUADRON RAF WITH THE SECOND TACTICAL AIR FORCE.

Off Sumba Island, Netherlands East Indies. 1945-01-15. The crew of the disabled Catalina aircraft, serial no. A24-96, code RK-E of No. 42 Squadron RAAF in their dinghies preparing to move across to the Catalina aircraft of No. 43 Squadron RAAF which came to rescue them. The aircraft had come down near Japanese held territory. On the night of 14 January 1945, during a mission to Surabaya, a plane from No. 42 Squadron RAAF, captained by Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Harrigan, experienced trouble with its port engine and immediately began to lose altitude. At the time Flt Lt Harrigan was flying at 300 feet below heavy cloud off Sumba Island. He jettisoned his mines, but the plane continued to lose altitude and he was forced to alight on the open sea. The hull of the Catalina aircraft was damaged and began to leak. However, the water was kept down by baling. Using the radio-telephone, the crew was able to make its position known to returning minelayers. All night they worked on the faulty engine, but without success. However, in the morning, a Catalina aircraft of No. 43 Squadron RAAF, captained by Flt Lt Ortlepp, landed in the heavy swell, covered by a Liberator aircraft, and took off Flt Lt Harrigan's crew. Flt Lt Ortlepp then destroyed the disabled Catalina aircraft with machine-gun fire and returned safely to base.

A 4.5 inch howitzer of 108th Howitzer Battery of the 8th FIeld Artillery Brigade deployed in line behind a dyke or elevated road which provides them with cover from fire and view by the enemy

The Rose Park Gun. German 7.7cm Feldkanone 96 (FK96) Field Gun (1896).* One of a battery of German 77mm field guns captured by the 32nd Battalion during the Battle of Amiens that are now located in parks around SA.

A 4.5 inch howitzer of 108th (Howitzer) Battery of the 8th Field Artillery Brigade

A Bell UH 1H Iroquois (aka "Huey") of No. 5 Squadron

AWM Collection The Banner borne by men of the 5th Machine Gun Battalion in Sydney until 1973 when the banner was retired and donated to the AWM

Medal Set of Major A Steele (left to right): Distinguished Conduct Medal, 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal (without oak leaf cluster which symbolises MID.) (The Distinguished Service Order is also part of the medal set as per other image.) The fact that Major Steele was awarded both a Distinguished Conduct Medal and a Distinguished Service Order makes his medal set rare as this combination was very rarely achieved by troops in the AIF.

Common Grave 294 - Lancaster ME -755 'AR-Z'

Gunner Robert Bamblett beside an 18 pounder field gun of the 12th Field Artillery Brigade, probably on the Salisbury Plain in England prior to deploying to France

Military Medal notification

Military Medal

An Australian transport wagon, galloping along the road near Red Lodge, behind Hill 63, in Belgium, whilst the Germans were shelling the batteries of the Australian and New Zealand Artillery concentrated there for the battle of Messines, which opened on 7 June 1917. Note that enemy shelling has set fire the camouflage over the guns. The gunners may be observed endeavouring to put out the fire although the position was still being shelled.

A privately own and flown CAC Wirraway operating in the 1980s before the 'Warbird' vintage military aviation movement got under way in Australia.

Flying Officer Jack Brittain

A memorial to the 460 Squadron crew lost on 13th June 1943

Personnel from HMAS Sydney, Tobruk and Murchison marching along George St, Sydney on 6 March 1953. [AWM 304621] ...

Portrait of 437282 Flight Sergeant (later Pilot Officer) Norman George Steer of Prospect, SA, Pilot (left), and 434107 Flying Officer Basil Trevor Roberts of Townsville, Qld, Navigator. They formed a ship-busting crew flying Beaufighter aircraft with RAAF 455 Squadron operating out of RAF Langham station, UK. On 15 October 1944, their aircraft ditched into the sea after attacking enemy trawlers off Norway. Only the body of FO Roberts was recovered, and he is buried in the Risor Civil Cemetery on the south coast of Norway

'He fell. The rest marched on to Victory. Ah my poor little son.' inscription on headstone gives an insight into the grief felt so far away.

SX4193 Private SMART, Gilby Roy; 2nd/27th Battalion

Military Cross 1914/15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal

Sergeant John Francis Montgomery, 1st Light Horse Regiment Train, September 1914

Private Leslie Robert Templeman RH#26

1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory medal with the oak leaf clasp denoting Mentioned in Despatches.

Group portrait of five Australian Soldiers from the 5th Divisional Ammunition Column. Left to right, back row: 3495A Gunner (Gnr) Harold Constantine; 1513 Gnr Allen Wylie Scott; Probably 2222 Driver James Thomas Sheehan. Front row: Gnr H Williams; 2603 Gnr Arthur Rayworth Davison, later killed on 20 August 1917.

Following the success of Le Hamel on 4 July, and the August offensive 8-11 August, King George V, who had been one of Monash's advocates, visited the Australian Corps Headquarters at Chateau Bertangles on 12 August. A display of some of the captured war material was on display along with a large turnout of troops.

Kenneth Roy "Curly" McPherson, 13th Field Ambulance