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Farewell and good luck - Australia in World War Two

Farewell and good luck - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 002268/11.Photographer: Edward ‘Ted' L F Cranstone.Place: Melbourne, Australia..An ABC journalist records a description of the scene as the troopship Orontes sails from Melbourne. ..Rights Info: No ... More

An unidentified Australian soldier with French orphan boy 'Digger', Henri Heremene.

An unidentified Australian soldier with French orphan boy 'Digger', He...

ID Number: A03678 .Place made: Hurdcott, England..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection ( http:// ) ..: cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/A... More

An unidentified soldier of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), taken in the field in Korea.

An unidentified soldier of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Reg...

ID Number: HOBJ2664 .Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver .Place made: Korea ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection ( http:// ) ..: cas... More

Step into the blockhouse - Australian Troops in World War Two

Step into the blockhouse - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID number: P00687.287.Photographer: Cyril Hampden Isaac..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions..The outline of a battered concrete redoubt is just visible over the scene of an unidentified woman standing... More

Cats of the sea - Australia in World War Two

Cats of the sea - Australia in World War Two

ID: P02790.031.Photographer unknown.Place: on board HMAS Melbourne..An informal portrait of Able Seaman Raymond Stewart Haig, on board HMAS Melbourne, holding two ship's cats...Rights info: no known copyright r... More

Radio Commonwealth - Australian Troops in World War Two

Radio Commonwealth - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID number: HOLJ0129.Photographer: Claude R Holzheimer.Place: Imjin River area, Korea..Chief Australian announcer Sergeant Kevin Joseph O'Donnell in the caravan broadcasting studio of 'Radio Commonwealth', locat... More

Sergeant Norman Stuckey - Australia in World War Two

Sergeant Norman Stuckey - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 070609.Photographer: unknown.Place: Port Moresby, Papua..Sergeant Norman Stuckey (left), photographer with the Military History and Information Section, with an American cameraman (right)...Rights In... More

Sergeant Olive Lucas, Queensland, Australia

Sergeant Olive Lucas, Queensland, Australia

ID number: P10718.004.Photographer: unknown.Place: Queensland..Sergeant Olive Lucas, seen here using a 4x5 Speed Graphic camera, re-trained as a photographer in the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Expe... More

Cut short - Australian Troops in World War Two

Cut short - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID number: P00687.498.Photographer: Cyril Hampden Isaac.Place: Helsingor, Denmark..Two group portraits of RAAF officers are inadvertently overlaid; cutting off the forward group and making them appear shorter. ... More

Tunes for the troops - Australia in World War Two

Tunes for the troops - Australia in World War Two

Photographer: John Geoffrey Fairley.Place: Vung Tau, Vietnam..Signalman (Sig) Ian Thompson recording music on reel to reel tape for soldiers of the 1st Australian Logistic Support Group...Rights Info: No known... More

Lieutenant William Harry Freeman

Lieutenant William Harry Freeman

ID number: P10753.001.Photographer: unknown.Place: Hiroshima, Japan..Military History and Information Section photographer, Lieutenant William Harry Freeman, possibly at Hiroshima...Rights Info: No known copyri... More

An observation balloon above the ruins of Ypres

An observation balloon above the ruins of Ypres

ID number: E01125.Photographer: Unknown Australian Official Photographer.Place: Belgium: Western Front (Belgium), Ypres Area, Ypres..An observation balloon above the ruins of Ypres...Rights Info: No known copyr... More

Two unidentified soldiers enjoy some recreation time at a sandbagged Navy Army Air Force Institute (NAAFI)

Two unidentified soldiers enjoy some recreation time at a sandbagged N...

ID Number: HOBJ3241 . .Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver .Place made: Korea ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection ( http:// ) ..: c... More

Private W D Leitch - Australia in World War Two

Private W D Leitch - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 051287.Photographer: unknown.Place: Brighton, Tasmania..Private (Pte) W D Leitch taking Pte Maxwell Coombes’ identification photograph following his enlistment...Rights Info: No known copyright restr... More

Japanese music. Public domain, Post-war Japan.. Public domain image of 1950s Japan.

Japanese music. Public domain, Post-war Japan.. Public domain image of...

ID number: HOBJ5213.Photographer: Phillip Oliver Hobson.Place: Kure, Japan..Recording Japanese musical instruments for a Britcom Broadcasting Station program...Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions..Thi... More

An unidentified soldier of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), taken in the field in Korea.

An unidentified soldier of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Reg...

ID Number: HOBJ1777 .Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver .Place made: North Korea ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection ( http:// ) ... More

Cat in a dugout - Public domain photogrpaph

Cat in a dugout - Public domain photogrpaph

ID: C02235.Photographer: Unknown.Place: Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Marmara, Chanak, Gallipoli Peninsula..Ensconced in an opening in a sandbagged dugout, a cat, probably a regimental mascot, looks up expectantly at... More

One of these two soldiers is Private Simpson.

One of these two soldiers is Private Simpson.

ID Number: HOBJ3243 .Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver .Place made: Korea ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection ( ) ..: cas.awm.go... More

An unidentified soldier of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), taken in the field in Korea.

An unidentified soldier of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Reg...

ID Number: HOBJ2647 .Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver .Place made: Korea ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection ( http:// ) ..: ca... More

Tour of Vietnam - Australian Troops in World War Two

Tour of Vietnam - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID number: SHA/66/0059/VN.Photographer: Michael Barry Shannon .Place: Bien Hoa, Vietnam..Brisbane singer Sammie Woods interviews Private Tom Lupton during her tour to entertain the troops in Vietnam...Rights In... More

Bombardment - Australian Troops in World War Two

Bombardment - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID number: 005655.Photographer: Damien Peter Parer.Place: Derna, Libya..Photographer Frank Hurley and sound recordist Alan Anderson in action at night; flashes of light on the horizon indicate a battle is takin... More

Damien Parer - Australia in World War Two

Damien Parer - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 141248.Photographer: Herald Newspaper.Place: unknown..Damien Parer, official military photographer and cameraman with the Department of Information, putting a new film into his Speed Graphic camera..... More

Group portrait of unidentified officers of the 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade.

Group portrait of unidentified officers of the 1st Australian Light Ho...

ID Number: B00572 .Place made: Palestine: Mejdel Jaffa Area, Rishon ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection ( http:// ) ..: cas.aw... More

This way or that way? - Australian Troops in World War Two

This way or that way? - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID number: PS0015.Photographer: Phillip Schuler.Place: King George Sound, Albany WA..Whilst tracking the movement of a lifeboat from aboard the HMAT Orvieto, Phillip Schuler, war correspondent with The Age, mov... More

An unidentified soldier of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), taken in the field in Korea.

An unidentified soldier of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Reg...

ID Number: HOBJ2667 .Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver .Place made: Korea ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection ( http:// ) ..: ca... More

Ginger Meggs Salvage Corps at work

Ginger Meggs Salvage Corps at work

ID Number: 138617 .Maker: Herald Newspaper ..Melbourne, Essendon . .Members of the Ginger Meggs Salvage Corps with their billy cart and salvage at the Raleigh Street State Primary School...Rights Info: N... More

Christmas Greetings - Australia in World War Two

Christmas Greetings - Australia in World War Two

ID number: BEL/70/0011/VN.Photographer: Christopher John Bellis .Place: Nui Dat, Vietnam..Corporal Bill McGrath of the 104th Signal Squadron listens to a Christmas message from his family...Rights Info: No kno... More

Gun Cats - Australian Troops in World War Two

Gun Cats - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID no: P04975.003.Photographer: David Lewis Price.Place: at sea, on board HMAT Borda..Two kittens, mascots of Australian troop transport HMAT Borda, in the open barrel of the breech loading Quick Fire gun...Rig... More

Cat with wings - Australia in World War Two

Cat with wings - Australia in World War Two

ID no.138288.Photgrapher: Herald Newspaper.Place: Cressy, Victoria..A very young cat called "Aircrew", the mascot of the Cressy Royal Australian Air Force flying school, looks into the photographer’s flash. ..R... More

Cats in a hammock - Australia in World War Two

Cats in a hammock - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 009425.Photographer: George Silk.Place: Middle East ..Aboard the HMAS Nizam, the ship’s cats have a custom made cat hammock to themselves. Australian destroyer Nizam was one of the “Tobruk ferries” –... More

Messages home from Palestine - Australia in World War Two

Messages home from Palestine - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 010509.Photographer: Frank Hurley.Place: Palestine..Captain Laurie Cecil of the ABC Field Unit records messages home from troops at Casa Camp, Palestine...Rights Info: No known copyright restriction... More

An unknown child dressed as a sailor

An unknown child dressed as a sailor

ID number: P04040.003 .Photographer: Unknown.Date Made: Unknown.Melbourne, Port Melbourne: Studio portrait of an unidentified child dressed in a sailor suit. The child leans on a post, reminiscent of a mast, ... More

An unidentified soldier of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), taken in the field in Korea.

An unidentified soldier of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Reg...

ID Number: HOBJ2659 .Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver .Place made: Korea ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection ( http:// ) ..: ca... More

James (Jim) Fitzpatrick - Australia in World War Two

James (Jim) Fitzpatrick - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 017814.Photographer: unknown.Place: Philippines..Department of Information photographer, James (Jim) Fitzpatrick holding his large format Speed Graphic still camera...Rights Info: No known copyright ... More

Group portrait of five decorated Australian Flying Corps officers

Group portrait of five decorated Australian Flying Corps officers

ID Number: DAAV00160 .Place made: Point Cook, Victoria, Australia .Date made: c 1919-1920 ..Group portrait of five decorated Australian Flying Corps officers standing in front of an Avro 504K aircraft, s... More

An unidentified soldier of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), taken in the field in Korea.

An unidentified soldier of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Reg...

ID Number: HOBJ2661 .Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver .Place made: Korea ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection ( http:// ) ..: ca... More

“Whacko” the cockatoo and “Cobber” the dog

“Whacko” the cockatoo and “Cobber” the dog

ID Number: 052601 .Maker: James Tait .Australia, Victoria, Tatura ..Camp mascots of No. 1 Camp, Tatura Internment Group, "Whacko" the sulphur crested cockatoo, and "Cobber" the dog. ..Rights Info: No known copy... More

An unidentified family group - Australian navy photo

An unidentified family group - Australian navy photo

ID number: 001229.Date made: 31 March 1940.HMAS Perth. Unidentified family group. ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection ( http:// )... More

A sailor with his family - Australian navy photo

A sailor with his family - Australian navy photo

ID number: 001223.Date: 31 March 1940..Sydney, New South Wales: Unidentified sailor from HMAS Perth and his family. ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Me... More

Beach sports under summer skies

Beach sports under summer skies

ID number: 002195.Photographer: Damien Parer.Date: July 1940.Place: British Mandate of Palestine: Ascalon..2/1 Battalion taking recreation in beach sports at Eskelon [sic] Beach...Rights Info: No known copyrigh... More

A break in the action - Australia in World War Two

A break in the action - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 005297.Photographer: Hurley, James Francis (Frank).Date: 26 December 1940.Place: North Africa: Western Desert, Libya, Cyrenaica, Bardia Area, Bardia..A quick shave between busy moments during the act... More

Devoted widow - Egypt - Australian Troops in World War Two

Devoted widow - Egypt - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID number: H16377.Photographer: Dorothy Warner.Place: Kapunda, South Australia..May Reynell lost her husband‚ Lieutenant-Colonel Carew Reynell‚ and her brother‚ Private Douglas Byard‚ on Gallipoli. Despite her ... More

Ship’s mascots on HMAS Sydney 1940

Ship’s mascots on HMAS Sydney 1940

ID Number: 002452 ..Aboard HMAS Sydney are two ships mascots who don't agree: Able Seaman J. T. Walker with his pup "Shrapnel" and Able Seaman Gamble with his cat "Salvo"...Rights Info: No known copyright res... More

Moggy Catmull - Australian navy photo

Moggy Catmull - Australian navy photo

ID number: 006845.Photographer: Silk, George.Date: March 1941.. ‘Moggy’ Catmull of HMAS Perth, dressing his beard...Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memo... More

Able Seaman Cooper - Australian navy photo

Able Seaman Cooper - Australian navy photo

ID number: 006848.Photographer: Silk, George.Date: March 1941..Able Seaman Cooper of HMAS Perth, showing off his beard...Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War... More

Christmas in Gaza, 1941 - Australian Troops in World War Two

Christmas in Gaza, 1941 - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID Number: 022495 ..Place made: Gaza, Palestine. .. V.A.Ds (Voluntary Aid Detachments) preparing their Christmas decorations at the 1st Australian General Hospital..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictio... More

Chasing geese for Christmas dinner under summer skies in Syria

Chasing geese for Christmas dinner under summer skies in Syria

ID number: 021089.Photographer: unknown.Date: December 1941.Place: Syria..The cook of an Australian engineer’s unit, brandishing a chopper, chasing geese to prepare them for Christmas dinner...Rights Info: No k... More

Evacuation from Tobruk, 1941 - A black and white photo of three men and a dog

Evacuation from Tobruk, 1941 - A black and white photo of three men an...

ID Number: 021160 .Maker: Fisher, Thomas .Place made: North Africa: Egypt, North Egypt, Alexandria ..Members of the 2/48th Battalion, 9th Australian Division, with a pet dog, after evacuation from Tobruk... More

A man with donkey, 1941 - Australian Troops in World War Two

A man with donkey, 1941 - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID Number: 008196 .Maker: Damien Peter Parer ..Khiam. ..The man with the donkey, 1941 version. Pte. D.W. Jones (NX15179) of Carlton N.S.W. and "C" company the 2/33 battalion. One of the men responsible for ... More

Moving wounded - Australian Troops in World War Two

Moving wounded - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID number: 021021.Photographer: Unknown.Place: Tobruk, Libya..A medical officer is caught mid-step descending into the regimental aid post “Big tree” at Tobruk. ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions..T... More

Beach sports under summer skies

Beach sports under summer skies

ID number: 009906.Photographer: George Silk.Date: September 1941.Place: Gaza Beach..The start of the sprint race at the surf lifesaving carnival. ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions..This photograph ... More

Norma Bissaker and Frank Bissaker on their wedding day, 1941

Norma Bissaker and Frank Bissaker on their wedding day, 1941

Studio portrait of the wedding party at the marriage of NX57392 Lieutenant Frank Sherral Bissaker and Norma Sherrie Bissell. The attendants are Horrie Bissell and Nita Bissell and an unnamed flower girl. ..Lt B... More

Movie-making - Australia in World War Two

Movie-making - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 061837.Photographer: Colin Thomas Halmarick.Place: Kokoda Trail, New Guinea.. Preparing to film sequences for Chauvel’s film “The Rats of Tobruk”. ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions..Thi... More

Damien Parer and George Silk - Australia in World War Two

Damien Parer and George Silk - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 009499.Photographer: unknown.Place: Tobruk..Damien Parer and George Silk, photographers with the Department of Information, at Tobruk Harbour preparing to capture the next air raid...Rights Info: No ... More

Ruins of Tobruk during World War I

Ruins of Tobruk during World War I

ID number: 020632.Photographer: Unknown.Place: Tobruk, Libya..Warrant Officer I R Munro of the Military History and Information Section, filming scenes around Tobruk...Rights Info: No known copyright restricti... More

Sergeant William Henderson Swanston

Sergeant William Henderson Swanston

ID number: A05252.Photographer: Unknown.Place: Gallipoli..Sergeant William Henderson Swanston, a photographer on loan from the RAF, holding a 12 inch by 12 inch glass plate field camera...Rights Info: No known ... More

Cat on a barrel - Australian Troops in World War Two

Cat on a barrel - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID : G00250.Photographer: Ernest Brooks.Place Made : Dardanelles, Gallipoli.."Are we downhearted?" The mascot cat of the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth located off the shores of Gallipoli Peninsula, strolls lig... More

Sewing bee at Bethungra - Australia in World War Two

Sewing bee at Bethungra - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 010060.Photographer: E Cranstone.Place made: Bethungra, New South Wales.Date made: September 1941.The weekly sewing bee for war organisations at a sheep station at Bethungra, New South Wales.Rights ... More

Mo Bros of HMAS Perth - Australia in World War Two

Mo Bros of HMAS Perth - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 006844.Photographer: Silk, George.Date: March 1941.Place: Adriatic Sea..A group of bearded members of HMAS Perth...Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australia... More

Cricketers take refreshment under (late) summer skies

Cricketers take refreshment under (late) summer skies

ID number: 020548.Photographer: Unknown .Date: 2 October 1941.Place: Cairo..Refreshments during practice of the 1941 A.I.F cricket team at the Gezira sporting club. From the left:- Flynn, Hassett, Steen, Rymill... More

Tobruk during World War I - Australia in World War Two

Tobruk during World War I - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 020634.Photographer: Unknown.Place: Tobruk, Libya..Warrant Officer I T Fisher of No 5 Field Unit, Military History and Information Section filming through the window of a ruined building in Tobruk...... More

Wire recording - Australian Troops in World War Two

Wire recording - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID number: VIC1724.Photographer: Unknown.Place: Melbourne, Australia..Flying Officer Peter Hemery of the RAAF Directorate of Public Relations Combat Recording Unit, making a wire recording...Rights Info: No kn... More

George Silk - Australia in World War Two

George Silk - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 013757.Photographer: unknown.Place: New Guinea..Department of Information photographer George Silk...Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions..This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial'... More

Recording at sea - Australia in World War Two

Recording at sea - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 023734.Photographer: Unknown.Place: At Sea, Middle East region..ABC Field Recording Unit onboard HMAS Perth, recording messages to be broadcast “back home” in Australia. ..Rights Info: No known copy... More

Camouflaged - Australian Troops in World War Two

Camouflaged - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID number: P02569.147.Place: Singapore..The barrel and mount of a wrecked 15 inch gun in Singapore overlayed with a landscape – the perfect camouflage. ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions..This photo... More

Christmas in Melbourne, 1942 - Australian Troops in World War Two

Christmas in Melbourne, 1942 - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID Number: 136997 .Maker: Herald Newspaper .Place made: Melbourne, Australia ..Four little girls decorate their austerity Christmas tree at a suburban school. The tree branches are constructed of sticks ... More

Jessica Rowe and Lisle Rowe on their wedding day, 1942

Jessica Rowe and Lisle Rowe on their wedding day, 1942

Sydney.1942..Portrait of NX73569 Private (Pte) Lisle Gerard Rowe of Bellata, NSW, and his bride Jessica Elaine Rowe (nee Holland) cutting their wedding cake on their wedding day. ..Enlisting in the Second AIF i... More

Cooling down with an ice block under summer skies in New Zealand

Cooling down with an ice block under summer skies in New Zealand

ID number: 150875.Photographer: George Silk.Date: June 1942.Place: North Island, New Zealand...Sick and wounded Australian and New Zealand troops from the Middle East were brought home safely on the hospital sh... More

Christmas at Buna, Papua, 1942, World War II photo

Christmas at Buna, Papua, 1942, World War II photo

ID Number: 013988 .Maker: George Silk.Buna, Papua. American soldiers at an advanced dressing station with a handmade Christmas tree decorated with surgical cotton wool and cigarette cartons...Rights Info: No ... More

Children inspecting a Japanese midget submarine, 1942

Children inspecting a Japanese midget submarine, 1942

ID Number: P00455.005 .Melbourne, Vic. . .School children and service personnel inspect the mid-section of a Japanese midget submarine on display in the exhibition gardens. This submarine took part in the un... More

A child watches the march, 1942

A child watches the march, 1942

ID Number: 136911 .Maker: Herald Newspaper .Melbourne, Victoria. ..Members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) give "eyes right" as they pass the saluting base during the Service Womens march thr... More

Boy with camouflage nets, 1942, World War II photo

Boy with camouflage nets, 1942, World War II photo

ID Number: 136305 .Maker: Herald Newspaper .Melbourne, Victoria..A schoolboy from the Ascot Vale Public School proudly displays camouflage nets made by his fellow pupils...Rights Info: No known copyright r... More

An American soldier with a joey, 1942

An American soldier with a joey, 1942

ID Number: 013225 .Maker: John Earl (Earl) McNeil..An American soldier at an advanced allied base, with his pet kangaroo..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian Wa... More

Air raid practice, Melbourne, 1942

Air raid practice, Melbourne, 1942

ID Number: 136390 .Maker: Herald Newspaper .Melbourne, Victoria..A nurse entertaining babies on a mattress under a table at the Camberwell babies home during an air raid practice. ..Rights Info: No known ... More

Dorothy Chadwick and Noel Maginness on their wedding day, 1943

Dorothy Chadwick and Noel Maginness on their wedding day, 1943

Wedding photograph of Sergeant Noel Ronald Maginness, RAAF, and Corporal (Cpl) Dorothy Desley Chadwick, WAAAF. The wedding took place on 12 June 1943 at St Michael's Church, Flinders Street, Surry Hills, Sydne... More

Sewing room at Government House, Melbourne

Sewing room at Government House, Melbourne

ID number: 052574.Place made: Melbourne, Victoria.Date made: 24 June 1943.Red Cross sewing room at Government House..Rights information: No known copyright restrictions..This photograph is from the Australia... More

War brides, 1943 during World War I, World War II photo

War brides, 1943 during World War I, World War II photo

Australia's first school for wives was organised by Captain Cecil Gidley, AIF, secretary of the Lord Mayor of Sydney's Allied Relations Committee and Officer-in-Charge of the American Division, Australian Depar... More

New hat ready for summer under summer skies

New hat ready for summer under summer skies

ID number: 057735.Photographer: James Tait .Date: 20 September 1943.Place: Cairns, QLD..QFX49402 Private J. Rogers, nurse, member of the women's services of the 5th Australian camp hospital in the new issue fu... More

Lifesaving test under summer skies

Lifesaving test under summer skies

ID number: 061310.Photographer: Ronald Noel Keam.Date: December 1943.Place: Coolangatta QLD..Members of the 4th Australian Armoured brigade being taught to swim. To date, 500 non swimmers have passed the test a... More

Tonight’s show - Australia in World War Two

Tonight’s show - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 062183.Photographer: Norman Bradford Stuckey.Place: Dumpu, New Guinea..Lance Sergeant E W Franklin of the 85th Australian Mobile Cinema Unit winds film in preparation for screening to the troops...Ri... More

Famous mo's of No. 6 Squadron - Australia in World War Two

Famous mo's of No. 6 Squadron - Australia in World War Two

ID number: OG0133.Photographer: Harrison, John Thomas.Date: 30 October 1943.Place: Papua New Guinea: Milne Bay..The members of No. 6 Squadron, RAAF were famous for their moustaches...Rights Info: No known copyr... More

A kiss interrupts the march, 1943

A kiss interrupts the march, 1943

138386.cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/138386 ( http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/138386 ) .Melbourne, VIC. .31 March 1943 .A female from the crowd, carried away with excitement, kisses a member of the 9th Australian... More

Christmas in the Ramu Valley, 1943

Christmas in the Ramu Valley, 1943

ID Number: 062771 .Maker: Stuckey, Norman Bradford ..Ramu Valley, New Guinea. NX103434 Captain F. D. Smith, dressed as Father Christmas, arriving at one of the wards of the main dressing station, 2/6th Au... More

Miss Winifred Yates stitching gold bullion braid on naval uniforms

Miss Winifred Yates stitching gold bullion braid on naval uniforms

ID number: 139429.Photographer: Herald Newspaper.Place made: Melbourne, Victoria.Date made: 10 August 1943.Miss Winifred Yates, an employee of the Commonwealth Clothing Factory, stitching gold bullion braid o... More

Parer in Tobruk - Australian Troops in World War Two

Parer in Tobruk - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID number: 009508.Photographer: George Silk.Place: Tobruk, Libya..Damian Parer filming during the Siege of Tobruk for the Department of Information...Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions..This photogra... More

The mascot pup after a bath 1943

The mascot pup after a bath 1943

ID Number: 053601 .Maker: Ronald Keith Monro.Atherton, Qld. ..The mascot of a cookhouse at the 9th Australian division, a puppy dog, being dried after his bath, in preparation for the visit of general Douglas M... More

The Riboni family - Australia in World War Two

The Riboni family - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 052597.Photographer: James Tait.Date Made: 24 June 1943..Tatura, Victoria, Australia: Interned Italian family at no. 3 camp, Tatura Internment Group. Left to right:- Mrs Berta Riboni; Erasmo Riboni; ... More

Mo nose art - Australia in World War Two

Mo nose art - Australia in World War Two

ID number: OG0134.Photographer: Harrison, John Thomas.Date: 1 August 1943.Place: Papua New Guinea: Milne Bay..The moustache nose art on the aircraft of No. 6 Squadron, RAAF. The insignia was inspired by the mou... More

A possum and a movie camera 1943

A possum and a movie camera 1943

ID Number: 015549 ..A pet ring tailed possum examines department of information movie camera somewhere in north Australia and assumes the operators' stance. ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...T... More

Squadron mascots, 1943 - Australia in World War Two

Squadron mascots, 1943 - Australia in World War Two

ID Number: NWA0031 . .Coomalie Creek, Northern Territory...Two members of No. 31 (Beaufighter) Squadron RAAF, holding the squadron mascots, a joey (young kangaroo) and a dog. Left to right: Flight Lieutenant... More

Captain Michelson and “Tim” the turtle

Captain Michelson and “Tim” the turtle

ID Number: 001117 .Maker: Damien Peter Parer .Place made: Palestine, Julis . .Captain D Michelson with a turtle named “Tim”, the mascot of the 2/2nd Battalion. ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions... More

Waiting to go on to the tennis court under summer skies

Waiting to go on to the tennis court under summer skies

ID number: 065150.Photographer: Robert Bruce Irving.Date: 27 March 1944.Place: Toorak VIC..Group portrait of trainees of the Australian women’s Army service officers training school waiting to go on to the tenn... More

Champion Beard of the whole Navy

Champion Beard of the whole Navy

ID number: 017306.Photographer: Edwards, Reg J.Date: 16 June 1944.Place: At sea, New Guinea..This beard belonging to Able Seaman J. Kearney is claimed by his shipmates to be the champion beard of the whole Navy... More

Champion beards - Australia in World War Two

Champion beards - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 017633.Photographer: Short, Gordon Herbert.Date: 27 September 1944.Place: South West Pacific Area..The champion beards on the HMAS Shropshire...Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This pho... More

Albert Donovan is welcomed home by his wife and family, 1944

Albert Donovan is welcomed home by his wife and family, 1944

NX25641 Private (Pte) Albert George Denovan, of Sydney NSW, 2/3 Pioneer Battalion ( http:///units/unit_11402.asp ) , a former prisoner of war (POW) is reunited with relatives at the showground. After moving thr... More

In Flight - Australian Troops in World War Two

In Flight - Australian Troops in World War Two

ID number: VIC1238.Photographer: J O Every .Place: In flight between Geraldton and Perth, Western Australia..ABC technicians on board a RAAF Short Sunderland aircraft during a tour of the Australian states made... More

A bike ride in Derbyshire, under summer skies

A bike ride in Derbyshire, under summer skies

ID number: P07841.008.Photographer: Unknown.Date: July 1944.Place: Derbyshire, England..Informal outdoor portrait of 434484 Flying Officer (FO) Gwynne Thomas and 429369 FO Richard Rodney (Rod) Young, both 463 S... More

Private ‘Snowy’ Alderson and the farming family he worked with

Private ‘Snowy’ Alderson and the farming family he worked with

ID number: P05142.001.Photographer: Unknown.Date Made: 1941-1944 .Germany: Informal group portrait of NX6320 (POW Number 09573) Private (Pte) Alan Chambers 'Snowy' Alderson, 2/1 Field Ambulance (far right, hol... More

Summer uniform, under summer skies

Summer uniform, under summer skies

ID number: 044516.Photographer: Unknown.Date: 1944.Place: Melbourne..Women's activities in wartime Australia covered nearly every aspect of industrial and community activity. A tram conductress in summer unifor... More

Diving in, under summer skies, Queensland, Australia

Diving in, under summer skies, Queensland, Australia

ID Number: 085307.Photographer: Unknown.Date: 31 December 1944.Place: Ravenshoe, Queensland..Sergeant W A D Morgan, a company, 2/2 machine gun battalion demonstrating a swallow dive during the 9 division swimmi... More

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