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At Sea. 1919-04. The members of the concert party aboard transport ship Shropshire (A9) bound for ...
Photograph
At Sea. 1919-04. The members of the concert party aboard transport ship Shropshire (A9) bound for Australia with returning servicemen on board.H04165
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At sea. 1917-12. Troops, including members of the Light Motor Wireless Squadron (LMWS), `D' ...
Photograph
At sea. 1917-12. Troops, including members of the Light Motor Wireless Squadron (LMWS), `D' Troop, 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, sitting and lying on the forecastle o...P00562.008
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At sea. Two men cling on top of the cruiser HMAS Hobart's plane, a Seagull V (A2-1), as the ...
Photograph
At sea. Two men cling on top of the cruiser HMAS Hobart's plane, a Seagull V (A2-1), as the aircraft is about to crash into the side of the ship on landing in the water. Navy personnel watch from the ...P02020.009
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At sea. 1971. 28324 Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Brian E. Betts, 3rd Battalion, The Royal ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
At sea. 1971. 28324 Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Brian E. Betts, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) (right), enjoying a glass of beer in "The Casbah" (Petty Officers' mess) aboard HM...P02222.018
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At sea. 1942. Waves crash over the bow of HMAS Adelaide as she ploughs through a large swell, ...
Photograph
At sea. 1942. Waves crash over the bow of HMAS Adelaide as she ploughs through a large swell, while on patrol and escort duties in northern Australia and New Guinea. This elevated view of the deck is ...P02020.007
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At Sea. 1915. Wounded soldiers on the deck of the troopship HMS Canada heading for Egypt from ...
Photograph
Maker: Campbell, James Pinkerton
At Sea. 1915. Wounded soldiers on the deck of the troopship HMS Canada heading for Egypt from Gallipoli.H03134
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Australia. C. 1940. At sea; Shipboard scenes of Australian troops en route to the Middle East.
Photograph
Australia. C. 1940. At sea; Shipboard scenes of Australian troops en route to the Middle East.040353
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Australia. C. 1940. At sea; Shipboard scenes of Australian troops en route to the Middle East.
Photograph
Australia. C. 1940. At sea; Shipboard scenes of Australian troops en route to the Middle East.040355
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Australia. C. 1940. At sea; shipboard scenes of Australian troops en route to the Middle East.
Photograph
Australia. C. 1940. At sea; shipboard scenes of Australian troops en route to the Middle East.040354
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Australian POWs homeward bound on HMT Highland Brigade
Art
Maker: Buckmaster, Ernest
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24...ART23386
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Australian red ensign : Private W D Reily, 56 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Printed cotton Australian red ensign with six-pointed (1901-1908 pattern) Federation Star. Light stains on the flag are said to have been blood stains, which were once darker in colour.REL39008
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Australia Service Medal : Able Seaman B E Archer, Royal Australian Navy
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL33253.007
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Australia Service Medal : Able Seaman E G Messenger, HMAS Australia
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL40065.005
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Australia Service Medal : Able Seaman Maxwell Colin 'Jim' Plummer, RAN
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL28201.005
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Australia Service Medal : Lieutenant C H McGee, Royal Australian Naval Reserve
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL35982.005
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Australia Service Medal : Lieutenant Commander G M Dixon, Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Heraldry
Maker: Royal Australian Mint
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/10364.010
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Australia Service Medal : Major C J Clarke, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Royal Australian Mint
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/09718.007
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Australia Service Medal 1939-45: Ordinary Seaman Edward Sheean, HMAS Armidale
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal 1939-45. Impressed edge with recipient's details.REL36137.004
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1939-1945 Australia Service Medal : Petty Officer H A Roope, HMAS Norman
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal, impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL44912.006
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Australia Service Medal : Petty Officer Stoker R D Gilmore, Royal Australian Navy
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL28932.003
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Australia Service Medal : Petty Officer Stoker W A Scott, Royal Australian Navy
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/04769.005
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Australia Service Medal : R C Stanley, Merchant Navy
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL35325.005
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Australia Service Medal: Sister M I Anderson, Australian Army Nursing Service
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed on edge with recipient's details.REL24178.006
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Australia Service Medal : Warrant Officer William Murt James, Royal Australian Naval Reserve (Seagoing)
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/22075.008
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Australia whilst under fire
Art
Maker: Hall, Alan
Depicts three sailors huddle under a table during an attack on their ship. The artist Alan Hall(1919-1979) enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Secon...ART93338
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Autograph book belonging to Lawrence Stanley Vivian Moss, 1914
Digitised Collection
Maker: Various
Autograph book relating to the First World War service of 909 Sergeant Lawrence Stanley Vivian Moss. This autograph book contains autographs collected by Moss whilst on board HMAT Orvieto in November ...RCDIG0001078
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Autographed handkerchief : Gunner P Clarke, Siege Artillery Brigade, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Various
Khaki army issue handkerchief autographed and decorated in indelible pencil. The handkerchief bears 28 signatures with service number and state of origin. Among them is that of '829 GNR Phil Clarke N....REL/18313
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Autographed souvenir handkerchief : 'Shrapnel'
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
White cotton man's handkerchief with decorative raised border of intersecting stripes. Embroidered in one corner with the letter 'S'. Both sides are printed in black with the troopship journal of the...REL33755
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Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge : Kriegsmarine
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
German Navy Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge. The oval shaped bronze badge shows a viking ship sailing across the top of the globe, within an oak leaf wreath surmounted by the Nazi eagle and swastika. The ...REL/15472
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Avery, Reginald Edgar (Private, b. c1880 - d.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Avery, Reginald Edgar
Collection relating to the service of 1870 Private Reginald Edgar Avery, 59 Battalion, France, 1916-1917. Collection contains letters written by Avery to family and friends. Copies made 1929? at req...1DRL/0074
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Awl handle : Leading Seaman V P Sotheren, RAN
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Sail maker's wooden awl handle with adjustable brass screw head to secure a needle in place (not present). A fitting on the side of the head carries the thread, which would be wound around the concave...REL41339.003
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Badge: ATL 'Minnewaska' : Sapper F E Rumball, 1 Divisional Signal Company, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Fattorini & Sons Ltd, Bradford
Badge from ATL (Atlantic Transport LIne) troopship 'Minnewaska'. The badge is in the shape of a ship's wheel inlaid with white enamel. Written on the enamel in brass coloured lettering is 'A.T.L. / S....REL38932
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Baldwin, Rupert Thomas James (Sergeant; b.1887 - d.1958)
Private Record
Maker: Baldwin, Rupert Thomas James
Diaries with detailed entries describing sea voyage, training in Egypt and active service on Western Front. Comments vividly on fighting in numerous battles, the mud and freezing conditions during the...PR00557
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Barber, Ronald (Signalman, b.1913 - d.1993)
Private Record
Maker: Barber, Ronald
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX31137 Signalman Ronald Barber, 2/4 Australian Infantry Battalion and 2/11 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Aust...PR05339
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Barge overhaul
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
On passage to Leyte. Barges on HMAS "Kanimbla" being overhauled in readiness for operation. The work being done by ratings and personnel of A.I.F.ART21112
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Barra sonar buoy
Technology
Maker: ADI Thomson Marconi Sonar
The Barra sonar buoy is made from impact resistant plastic and is cream in colour. The buoy is cylindrical in shape. Markings - SONAR CHANNEL B RF CHANNEL. DICASS 62D/B; CONTRACT NUMBER 272422; AN/SSQ...REL35508
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Barr, T A C, Private, MID (b.1891 - d.1951)
Private Record
Maker: Barr, T A C
Diary of Scotsman who enlisted in the AIF in Sydney. Describes training at Randwick, embarkation, assembly of convoy at Sydney and sea voyage to Alexandria via Colombo. Records the Sydney-Emden battle...PR91/051
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Beale brothers (Harold, Hector, Cyril)
Private Record
Bound transcript of letters of three Beale brothers titled `Martial Heirs', indicative of role of one Australian family, with particular emphasis on the view of the importance of British civilisation ...PR00312
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Beeston, Joseph Lievesley (Colonel, b.1859 - d.1921)
Private Record
Maker: Beeston, Joseph Lievesley
Collection relating to the First World War service of Colonel Joseph Lievesley Beeston CMG, VD, 4 Field Ambulance, Egypt, Gallipoli, 1915-1916. Collection of document and a diary relating to Beeston's...PR00264
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Beeston, Samuel (Commander, b: 1888 d: 1985)
Manuscript
Maker: Beeston, Samuel
Account titled "The RAN in the First World War", outlining Australian naval strength at the outbreak of war, tactics, encounters with German warships, submarines and losses.MSS1602
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Bellingham, Samuel Mercer (Private, b? - d.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Bellingham, Samuel Mercer
Letters describe training at Bendigo and Campbellfield, sickness in camp, sea voyage to England via Capetown aboard ss Runic with a kangaroo on board. Describes further training at Lark Hill in Englan...PR91/046
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Bell pull from HMAS Sydney II
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Bell pull made from white cotton rope and cord knotted in a number of decorative patterns, mainly variations on the Turk's head knot, around a hemp core. The head of the rope is finished with a brass ...REL41312
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Bennie, Robert James (Sergeant)
Private Record
Maker: Bennie, Robert James
Letters to family describing sea voyage, training in Egypt and England (Perham Downs), and active service in France. Discusses their welcome in France, the destruction of Ypres, conditions in trenches...PR00226
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Berg, Eric, Trooper/Driver (b.1889 - d.1920)
Private Record
Maker: Berg, Erik
Describes departure from Australia and sea voyage to England via Colombo, Ismailia, Gibralter. Continues with descriptions of training and leave at various camps in England.PR91/012
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Betteridge, Isaac Henry (Private, d.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Betteridge, Isaac Henry
Collection relating to the First World War service of No 7209 Private Isaac Henry Betteridge, 23 Battalion. Collection consists of typed transcripts of two diaries, covering March to June 1917 and Fe...PR90/151
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B flat cornet, sinking of HMAT 'Ballarat': Sapper W J Headen, 15 Light Railway Operating Company AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Boosey & Co
Silver plated brass cornet with standard 'shepherd's crook' bend leading from the bell tube to the first valve. The bell is impressed 'CLASS B / [BOOSEY TRADEMARK] / BOOSEY & CO / MAKERS / 295 REGENT ...RELAWM12686.001
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Bird, Simon Timothy (Leading Seaman)
Private Record
Maker: Royal Australian Navy
Collection relating to 8211613 (S136000) Leading Seaman Simon Bird, HMA Ships Cerberus, Kattabul, Brisbane, Jervis Bay, Coonawarra, Cessnock, Moresby, and Anzac, 1985-2005. Wallet 1 of 2 consists of...PR04715
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Blackout HMAS "Sydney"
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
Looking along the blacked out upper deck of a cruiser at sea. At the top of the ladder is the 4" gun deck with the gun crews around their guns. On this deck is a shelter, formerly a timber rack, now l...ART21766
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Blau, Edgar James (Midshipman, b.1922 - d.2005)
Private Record
Maker: Blau, Edgar James
Collection relating to Midshipman (later Lieutenant Commander) Edgar Blau, Royal Australian Navy. It comprises a journal written by Blau while a Midshipman serving on HMAS Canberra, 1940-1942 and copi...PR03441
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Blomfield, Cecil Richard (Captain-Later Colonel)
Private Record
Maker: Blomfield, Cecil Richard
Journal describes sea voyage to Middle East, establishment and running of camp in Palestine, comments on Arabs and Jews, training, air raids and treatment of casualties at Bardia.PR00189