Soudan Campaign Memorial Description and Transcription
Plaque attached to a block of concrete placed in the garden of the Rocky Hill War memorial Museum.
Major-General Cyril Clowes Commander of the Australian Forces in the Milne Bay area
Cyril Albert Clowes (1892-1968), army officer, was born on 11 March 1892 at Warwick, Queensland, eldest child of Albert Clowes, a dentist from England, and his New Zealand-born
'Breaker' Morant
Lieutenant Henry Harboard (Harry) ‘The Breaker’ Morant
Second Lieutenant Simon Fraser, 58th Battalion
Simon Fraser was a 38-year-old farmer from Western Victoria when he enlisted in July 1915.
Private Albert Ernest Nelson
Albert Ernest Nelson was born in 1893 in Kempsey, on the New South Wales coast, the son of William and Harriet Nelson.
Thomas Henry Herket Private 3309 53rd Battalion AIF
Currently the Office of Australian War Graves is in the process of installing an official commemorative plaque in the NSW Garden of Remembrance to commemorated the WW1 war servi
Corporal Dyer Albert Diprose
Corporal Dyer Albert Diprose was born in 1893, one of four children of Charles and Isabella Diprose of West Burnie, Tasmania.
Memorial Refurbishment
When the Millaa Millaa RSL Sub-Branch disbanded abt 1999, Eacham Shire Council placed 2 stones and a flagpole in the Lions Park with money from the Sub-Branch. The names we
Rosenthal the man
Known affectionately by the men he led as ‘Rosie’, Rosenthal was much admired for his front-line style of leadership.
A Life Lost on Shaggy Ridge
The arch of the Bungendore War Memorial bears two main inscriptions.
Lieutenant Cantello Reserve Memorial Inscription
Lest We Forget
CANTELLO
(1915 - 1942)
Lawrence Silvester Polomka
Lawrence Silvester Polomka was the second son of John and Barbara Polomka of Clare, South Australia.
Their Soldier Son So Brave
The face looking out from the photograph is young, as so many were.
Well Liked By His Chums
The family name Alchin is well known in the Gunning area and the Gunning War Memorial bears five such names, two of whom paid the ultimate price for service to their nation in w
Remembering Tobruk
Tobruk has become an Australian legend which may loom as large in the national consciousness as Gallipoli.
Commemorating the Service and Sacrifice of all Australians who Fought in the First World War
St John's Cathedral has long enjoyed close associations with Australian Service men and women, and this association was especially strong during and after the First World War.
Empire Air Training Scheme
At the outbreak of the Second World War the British government realised it did not have adequate resources to maintain the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the impending air war in Euro
Two of many lost, and a generational link
On the Walcha and District War Memorial a marble slab bears the names of those locals who died serving during the Second World War.
Soldiers' Memorials - Lych-Gate and Recreation Ground at Ellendale
SOLDERS' MEMORIALS.
Lych-Gate and Recreation
Ground at Ellendale.
Opening Ceremony.
(From Our Own Representative.)
History of the Armistice Centenary War Memorial Part 3
Future Stages:
Subject to securing the required funding, the following works are planned as future development stages at the ACWM:
History of the Armistice Centenary War memorial Part 2
What the Memorial Commemorates
History of the Armistice Centenary War Memorial Part 1
Armistice Centenary War Memorial
Location
'Excuse me sir, would you like your plume back?'
The Story of the Light Horseman - the Bugler
The Story of the Emu Feathers
With the outbreak of WW1 (1914-1918) Lieutenant Colonel R.M.