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31 Results
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Africa Star : Private W W Foster, 2/12 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Africa Star. Unnamed as issued.REL36128.002
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Anonymous
Manuscript
Lines written by NX8448, 2/11 Field Ambulance, after the first battle of El Alamein. A poem which describes the battle of El Alamein, the heavy price of war, and the hope that Australians will remembe...MSS1221
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Australia Service Medal : Private W W Foster, 2/12 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL36128.006
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Boyne, Harry V. (Corporal)
Private Record
Maker: Boyne, Harry Vincent Unknown
A mixed collection consisting of diaries, poems ('Atebrin', 'The Second Anzac', 'Confession by Hitler', 'Faversham of York', 'Faversham', 'A Soldier's Farewell', and an untitled poem), personal equipm...PR00408
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Private W W Foster, 2/12 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL36128.005
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Collection of seven 78 rpm records : Padre A W McIlveen, Salvation Army
Heraldry
Maker: Brunswick His Master's Voice Regal Zonophone Regal Zonophone
Small collection of 78 rpm gramophone records, all of which have been broken or shattered to a greater or lesser extent, and subsequently repaired with cloth tape (resulting in only one side being pla...RELAWM30722.002
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Colour patch : Private R T Donovan, 2/2 Casualty Clearing Station
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Triangular colour patch for 2/2 Casualty Clearing Station showing a red circle within a dark brown triangle, on a grey background.REL38300
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Cross for Polish Forces in the West : Private W W Foster, 2/12 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Cross for Polish Forces in the West with Tobruk clasp. The reverse cast with the following: '1939 Polskie Sily Zbrojne Na Zachodzie 1945'. Unnamed as issued.REL36128.009
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Daintree, Charles Marshall (Lieutenant Colonel, b: 1907)
Manuscript
Maker: Daintree, Charles Marshall
'AIF Abroad': Some Recollections of My War Years 1939 to 1945' describes Daintree's life beginning with his early life, then going on to his schooling, pre-war career as a teacher and then as a traine...MSS1509
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Defence Medal : Private W W Foster, 2/12 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Defence Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL36128.004
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2/3 Field Regiment
Manuscript
`Unofficial History of the 2/3 Field Regiment', edited by L. Bishop and L. Lind, is a detailed history of the Regiment from its inception in 1939. It outlines training in England and in Queensland on ...MSS1222
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Hallam, Richard (Warrant Officer), MID
Private Record
Maker: Hallam, Richard
Papers (1941 - 1942) of Warrant Officer Richard Hallam during his service on the SS Nevasa in the Second World War. Items include letters to friends and family, copies of poetry written by other sold...PR01373
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Hele, Sir Ivor Henry Thomas KTCR CBE, (Major, b.1912 - d.1993)
Private Record
Maker: Hele, Ivor Henry Thomas
A collection consisting of the map used by the Official War Artist Ivor Hele whilst working in the Tobruk area, and citations for the appointment of Hele as an 'Ordinary Officer of the Civil Division ...PR00473
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Hill, Alec Jeffrey MBE ED (Major, b.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Hill, Alec Jeffrey
A collection of papers relating to 9 Division activities. The collection includes poems, a message, Order of the Day message from Blamey about the surrender of the Japanese, a letter from Gavin Long (...PR00177
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King, Norm (Chief Petty Officer, b: 1920, d: 1999)
Manuscript
Maker: King, Norm
Autobiography titled 'Memoirs of a Reluctant Warrior, 1936-1955' describing emigration to Australia, schooling, the depression, enlisting in the Royal Australian Navy, pre-war service, and active serv...MSS1502
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Morshead, Sir Leslie James (Lieutenant General, b.1889 - d.1959)
Private Record
Maker: Morshead, Leslie James
Collection of personal papers, official correspondence, operational records, administrative papers, reports and addresses documenting Sir Leslie Morshead's career in the First and Second Word Wars. In...PR00368
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Nazi vehicle recognition flag captured at Tobruk : Captain A G Smith, 2/15 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Large elongated rectangular cotton Nazi flag in red cotton with central white and black swastika symbol oversewn to front. There is no corresponding swastika on the reverse. There is an alloy eyelet a...REL39783
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New arrivals in Tobruk
Art
Maker: Dowie, John Stuart
A line of new arrivals, loaded with their packs and rifles, marching past a soldier seated by the side of the dirt road whilst examining his bare foot. Behind him is a tank and broken powerlines, and ...ART23911
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Newton, John (Jack)
Private Record
Maker: Newton, John Newton, John (Jack) Various
Two books of poetry written/compiled by Mr Newton which describe his life during World War Two and post-war. The poetry deals with themes such as the bad conditions soldiers had to endure, the cavemen...PR00447
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NORTH AFRICA. 1942. ORIGINAL PRINT IS CAPTIONED '"OUR RELIEVING HOUSE", JOCK GEORGE, BRUCEY AND ...
Photograph
NORTH AFRICA. 1942. ORIGINAL PRINT IS CAPTIONED '"OUR RELIEVING HOUSE", JOCK GEORGE, BRUCEY AND OUR DUMB LANCE CORPORAL, FROM JOE'. FOUR AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS, PROBABLY IN THE TOBRUK AREA, SIT IN LATRIN...P01396.002
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Padres Francis and Robjohns
Private Record
Burial registers maintained by padres of 2/13 Battalion. Records name, unit, army number, rank, dates of death and burial, religion, cemetery and grave number, officient, and remarks such as next of k...PR00209
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Peck, Lindsay J MBE
Manuscript
Maker: Peck, Lindsay J
"Sappers of the Silent Seventh", a compilation of narrative accounts describing the exploits of the 7th Division Engineers from the unit's formation at Ingleburn in 1940, through the campaigns in the ...MSS1233
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Rae, John Patrick Thomson (Warrant Officer, b.1917-d.1973)
Private Record
Maker: Rae, John Patrick Thomson
Collection relating to the Second World War service of A5107 Warrant Officer John Patrick Thomson Rae, No. 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Egypt, Libya and Italy, 1941-1944. Wallet 1 o...PR05749
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1939 - 1945 Star : Private W W Foster, 2/12 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939 - 1945 Star. Unnamed as issued.REL36128.001
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The destroyer HMAS Waterhen (left) towing the British hospital ship Vita to an anchorage about ...
Photograph
The destroyer HMAS Waterhen (left) towing the British hospital ship Vita to an anchorage about two miles outside the entrance to Tobruk harbour. The Vita had been attacked and badly damaged by German ...P01810.001
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Tobruk area. 1941-04. A soldier from the 2/48th Battalion leading across the sand past the ...
Photograph
Tobruk area. 1941-04. A soldier from the 2/48th Battalion leading across the sand past the Battalion's headquarters a group of seventy Italian prisoners captured by his unit. (Donor A. Tovell)P02242.018
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Trench art shell case : Sapper S J Benham, 2/4 Field Company
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Brass shell casing engraved with a flat line drawing of a barbed wire fence. Between the posts of the fence capital letters reading 'TOBRUK' are individually suspended from loops of wire attached arou...REL44355
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Truce at Tobruk
Art
Maker: Dowie, John Stuart
Depicts the truce between the Germans and Australians at Tobruk on 4 August 1941 which enable each side to venture out into no man's land and collect their dead and wounded. The Australian soldier hol...ART26654
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Unofficial Front Line Infantry Service Medal : Private W W Foster, 2/12 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: A J Parkes & Co
Unofficial Front Line Infantry Service Medal. Unnamed.REL36128.011
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Unofficial Tobruk Siege 1941 Medal : Private WW Foster, 2/12 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Unofficial Tobruk Siege Medal. Engraved reverse with recipient's name.REL36128.008
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Wind-up 78 rpm portable gramophone : Brigadier A W McIlveen, Salvation Army
Heraldry
Maker: His Master's Voice
Standard mid thirties portable gramophone. Case is made from wood, bound in black leatherette and supplied with a leather handle, which is not original. All metal fittings are nickel-plated. There is ...RELAWM30722.001