Captain Reginald Walter 'Reg' Saunders
Reg Saunders was the first Aboriginal Australian to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian army.
Lance Sergeant (L Sgt) Norman Wiseman
photograph of VX21302 Lance Sergeant (L Sgt) Norman Wiseman, 2/8th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers.
Guildford Grammar School War Memorial
A monument commemorating the former Guildford Grammar School students who died in service or were killed in action in World War One.The memorial was unveiled on April 23, 1922,
Tilpa War Memorial
"We are camped under the pyramids … they are marvellous!”
With what seems to be amused expressions on their faces the brothers, atop their mouths, gaze towards the camera.
Sergeant Henry Dalziel VC
In this week’s installment of our series honouring Victoria Cross recipients from Queensland, we remember Sergeant Henry Dalziel VC.
Cottage Hospitals - Value in the Country
War Memorial at Tongala
Printed in the Argus, Melbourne, Vic. Monday 14 September 1925, page 12
Sergeant Lewis McGee
In 1917, Sergeant Lewis McGee was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions while serving at Ypres.
22 soldiers publicly recognised a century on from their service
For more than a century their stories of service and sacrifice have been hidden from public view, but recently 22 men from the villages of Kearsley, Abernethy and Edenville were
The Forgotten Indigenous Soldiers of Walhallow - Part 5
Members of Walhallow must have wondered why the ‘all’ did not see their loved ones included on the memorials in town.
The Forgotten Indigenous Soldiers of Walhallow - Part 3
On the 15th of October 1915, at a Narrabri recruiting meeting a march similar to the Coo-ee March was planned, called the Wallaby March, it commenced at Walgett on December 1915.
The Forgotten Indigenous Soldiers of Walhallow - Part 2
Russell Johnson had always had a degree of luck, shot through the neck as a young man at Caroona and now having survived The Great War, he was on his way home.
The Forgotten Indigenous Soldiers of Walhallow - Part 1
In 1934, forty kilometres from Quirindi NSW, the local Aboriginal people, members of the RSL and a few newspaper men gathered on the then Aboriginal mission station of Walhallow, to do something the local towns communities had refused to do, honour the Aboriginal men from Walhallow that served in WWI.
The Seville Township Group (Seville War Memorial Committee)
Here in the centre of the Yarra Valley, is a new type of memorial, a 21st century memorial, one that will move and educate people for generations to come and not only be admired
From the farming soils of Cann River to the sands of Gallipoli
Among the sixteen names on the Cann River Honour Roll is that of Broome SH.
William Legget Memorial
This is a negative of an original sculpture made from a steel cut-out depicting the fallen horseman, William Thomas Leggett, and has mounted bronze statuettes around this figure
Lone Pine Information
Large stone with a plaque attached displayed in the garden of the Rocky Hill War Memorial museum, with the wording: This “Lone Pine” was planted by GOULBURN ARGYLE GARDEN CLUB i
Information on the First Howitzer
Captured by the 4th Division, 12th Infantry Brigade, 45th Battalion AIF, near Villers-Bretonneux, France on 8 August 1918, during an Allied advance.
Second Howitzer Information
Captured by the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment at Mafrak, Palestine in 16 October 1918.
Story of the 3rd Battalion Coat of Arms
3rd Battalion Coat of Arms, with lions on both sides and one on top of a crown on the top of a circle with the number 3 in the centre, surrounded by the words: VETERI FRONDESCIT
Transcription of Goulburn and District Servicewomen Memorial
Plaque is attached to a piece of concrete and is placed in the garden of the Rocky Hill War Memorial Museum.
Transcription of 3rd Battalion on Kokoda Memorial Plaque
Kokoda (3rd Battalion) Memorial
Plaque attached to a concrete block displayed in the front garden of the Rocky Hill War Memorial museum.
Transcription of the Changi Memorial
Changi Memorial Plaque attached to concrete from the boundary wall from Changi Prison, Singapore. Salvaged from Changi Prison on 27 July 2004. Dimensions: 1m x 1m.
Transcription of the Memorial Plaque to the Royal Australian Navy to Commemorate the Navy Centenary year 1911-2011
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Memorial Plague to the Royal Australian Navy to Commemorate the Navy Centenary year 1911-2011