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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_Lucy_Fielke_Ada_Rose_Alleyn.pdf

Jack Reed (R) and mates somewhere in northern Australia

WARMAN.pdf

THE_AUSTRALIAN_ARMY_IN_MALAYSIA.pdf

Guide_to_Reading_a_WW2_Service_Record.pdf

LHS Plaque at St Peters Heroes Memorial

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.

A Matilda Tank several of which payed a crucial role at Slater's Knoll

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

WCDR John Balmer, while CO of No. 100 Squadron RAAF September 1942. Later CO of No. 467 Squadron, lost on Ops.

Reginald Francis GRIMLEY

AN RAF Catalina of No. 202 Squadron returns to Gibraltar after a patrol

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.

RAF Station Waddington Lincolnshire, England. C. 1944-05. Group portrait of members of the crew of "S" for Sugar, a Lancaster aircraft of No. 467 Squadron RAAF, prior to taking off on her ninety seventh raid over enemy territory. Left to right: Captain for the first time is Pilot Officer T. N. Scholefield of Cryon, NSW Flying Officer I. Hamilton Flight Sergeant (F Sgt) R. T. Hillas F Sgt F. E. Hughes Sergeant (Sgt) R. H. Burgess F Sgt K. E. Stewart Sgt J. D. Wells

Bristol Beauforts at No. 1 Operational Training Unit, Bairnsdale, Victoria. Nearer camera: A9-102, 262097, Flying Officer Peter John Gibbes, DFC; A9-66, 377, Squadron Leader Cyril Clarence Williams.

The mangled ruins of part of the light railway after a direct hit on a trainload of ammunition. Amidst the debris are damaged shell cases. The light railway was used to transport casualties and supplies within the Ypres area. From Birr Cross Roads casualties were transferred to motor ambulances to be transported to the advanced dressing stations on the Menin Road. Note in the background a line of motor lorries.

In November 1967 a 9 Squadron Iroquois lands to pick up members of the 7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) during operation Santa Fe, a gruelling three week-long operation through inhospitable country some 23 kilometres from the Task Force Base at Nui Dat. [AWM COL/67/1127/VN]

Nine members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 6RAR. By the end of Operation Bribie three of these young men were dead and five had been wounded. Only one emerged from the battle unscathed. Image courtesy of J. O'Halloran. [AWM P02452.002]

Unidentified radio operator of B Company 9 RAR on Operation Friendship 3. Radio communications were better and more readily available than in any previous conflict.

A 38 Squadron CC-08 Caribou over the Great Australian Bight

RAAF OVERSEAS HQ, LONDON, ENGLAND. 1943-03-16. 402571 PILOT OFFICER (PO) C. R. G. GRANT DFM (LEFT) WON HIS AWARD 1942-11 FOR HIS CONSISTENT SKILL AND DETERMINATION IN NIGHT OPERATIONS OVER ENEMY TERRITORY, AND 403564 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT J. K. DOUGLAS DFC WAS CITED 1943-01 AS "A MOST DETERMINED AND SUCCESSFUL CAPTAIN OF AIRCRAFT WHOSE QUIET CONFIDENCE AND KEEN SPIRIT HAVE BEEN AN INSPIRATION TO ALL."

Original grave marker of the crew of Lancaster LL847 JO-D and the common grave in which they are now interred in Le Gros-Thiele Communal cemetery

Nursing SIster Dorothy Elmes, a victim of the Banka Island massacre

Malaya. 1941. Group portrait of three nursing sisters of 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station (2/4 CCS), 8th Australian Division. Left to right: Sister D. S. Gardam, who survived the sinking of the Vyner Brooke, was taken prisoner by the Japanese and died later in captivity in April 1945, Sister E. M. Hannah, also a survivor from the Vyner Brooke and the only surviving nurse of the 2/4 CCS, and, Matron I. Drummond, who, after surviving the sinking of the Vyner Brooke was among those massacred by the Japanese on the foreshore of Banka Island, Sumatra on 1942-02-16.

The second attack at Dernancourt on 5 April 1918

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

4501 Pte Herbert Edward Ballard

Stonehaven War Memorial Panel

Family photo of Arthur James KERR KIA 27 Aug 1916 at Mouquet Farm

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.

The Lockleys Soldiers Memorial Hall configured as the Windsor Cinema until its closure in 199

Discharge Certificate (original) Edward Hewlett, 43 Bn AIF

Discharge Certificate (original) Edward Hewlett, 43 Bn AIF

Edward Hewlett's Certificate of Discharge - reverse