GROUP PORTRAIT OF NO. 4 INITIAL TRAINING SCHOOL, RAAF, COURSE NO. 25, "A" SQUADRON, FLIGHT 17. BACK ROW: 417275 DOUGLAS GEORGE BARRETT (DIED 27 JANUARY 1944 ON OPERATIONS OVER NORTH WEST EUROPE, ...
The modern 20,166-ton liner Oranje was completed in early 1939 for the Nederland Line, and began its maiden voyage to Batavia in September of the same year. The outbreak of war between the Netherlands ...
Group portrait of Leading Aircraftmen (LAC) of 'A' Flight, Course 29a, No 4 Initial Training School, RAAF, at Victor Harbor (Harbour), SA. Identified from left to right, back row: 417662 LAC Edward ...
Messerschmitt Me 262A-2, cantilever low wing monoplane with twin axial flow jet engines. All metal, stressed skin construction. Retractable tricycle undercarriage, single spar, one piece wing attached ...
Standard First World War issued Lewis Mk 1 Machine Gun. The barrel jacket has a large hole caused by an artillery fragmentation splinter and has a worn hand painted inscription detailing the history ...
The Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau provides insights into the efforts to trace missing soldiers during wartime.
Born in 1920, Kathleen Walker, nee Ruska, grew up on North Stradbroke Island in Moreton Bay, east of Brisbane. Known as Kath, Walker showed a natural gift with words at an early age and was encouraged ...
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The brave but futile charge at the Nek was made famous by the movie Gallipoli. Yet the day before, the Australians attacking Lone Pine had a rare success in some of the fiercest fighting they ever ...
This volume, the first of seven in the army series of the official history of Australia in the war of 1939-45, carries the story of the Second AIF up to the end of the operations in Cyrenaica in the ...
The new Main Entrance Foyer, designed by Studio.SC, was officially opened to the public on 3 February 2025. Situated directly below the existing forecourt, visitors can enter from the Sculpture Garden ...
Albert Cotter established his cricketing ability at school in Sydney and by 18 was playing for New South Wales. When he was 20 he was selected to bowl for Australia. In a nine-year international ...