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Hannah, Robert Lindsay (Flight Sergeant, b.1916 - d.2004)
Private Record
Maker: Hannah, Robert Lindsay
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 22868 Flight Sergeant Robert Lindsay Hannah, 78 Air Stores Park and 78 Wing Headquarters, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Australia, New Guine...PR03528
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Heart shaped sweetheart brooch : Staff Sergeant J A Whelen, 2 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Heart shaped perspex sweetheart brooch suspended from a thick perspex bar with a pin fastening attached to the back. The suspension bar has an aluminium plate attached to it which has been engraved 'T...REL25350
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HMAS Westralia (I) Anzac Day marching banner
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Bright yellow synthetic satin marching banner with black applique lettering. The top of the banner reads 'HMAS WESTRALIA' in black satin. In the centre of the banner is a machine sewn stencil of the s...REL40081
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Hopwood, S.J.(Jock) (Leading Aircraftman)
Private Record
Maker: Hopwood, S J
Letters of Leading Aircraftman (LAC) S.J. (Jock) Hopwood to his mother from September 1943 to November 1945. They cover two phases of his career: (i) when he was stationed in Australia and training as...PR00948
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HQ 26 Infantry Brigade troops landing from a Landing Ship Tank (LST) on Red 1 Beach. Wrecked ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
HQ 26 Infantry Brigade troops landing from a Landing Ship Tank (LST) on Red 1 Beach. Wrecked Japanese installations are seen in the foreground.090882
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Identity disc : Trooper W B Robson, 2/4 Commando Squadron
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Round steel identity disc hand engraved on the obverse ' - ROBSON - W- C.E- DX122 -', and on the reverse 'O4'.REL38052
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Incident on Sykes, Tarakan 1
Art
Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicting an incident during the attack on Sykes Feature, Tarakan, by 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion.ART26030
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Infantry resting on tank knoll
Art
Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts men of the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion among ruins of oil tanks on a hill just inland from their landing point on Red beach.ART22477
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Informal portrait of Aboriginal serviceman, WX28716 Private Victor Nelson, 17 Platoon, D Company, ...
Photograph
Maker: Rainsford, Ross John
Informal portrait of Aboriginal serviceman, WX28716 Private Victor Nelson, 17 Platoon, D Company, 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion, holding a shovel over his shoulder on John’s Track.089736
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"Jacky Jacky" and "Tarakan" by Rae Parkinson (Lieutenant, b.1912 - d.1999)
Manuscript
Maker: Crowther, Edwina Knox, Rae
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Lieutenant Rae Knox (nee Seamark, subsequently Parkinson), Australian Army Nursing Service. Collection consists of a digital copy of a memoir of...MSS1957
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JANET FEATURE, TARAKAN. 1945-05-21. A BURNT AREA OF THE FOREST AFTER A DIRECT HIT BY NAPALM BOMBS ...
Photograph
JANET FEATURE, TARAKAN. 1945-05-21. A BURNT AREA OF THE FOREST AFTER A DIRECT HIT BY NAPALM BOMBS ON 1945-05-20 BY P 38 LOCKHEED LIGHTNINGS, WHICH SUPPORTED THE FORWARD DRIVES MADE BY 2/23 AND 2/48 IN...089980
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Japanese Army field pack
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Khaki canvas field pack with leather strapping and steel fittings and 'A' configuration harness. Leather piping has been sewn over panel seams. A pocket is sewn on to the inside of the top of the fron...REL25172
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Japanese Army handkerchief with painting of Mount Fuji : Private R G Roenfeldt, Australian Army Service Corps
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Ink painted Japanese Army handkerchief. Japanese characters written at the top of the handkerchief translate as, 'At Tarakan Island, Commemorating the end of the Pacific War, 17 December 1945'. Undern...REL28949
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Japanese flag captured at Tarakan in May 1945
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
White cotton flag with red cotton appliqued anchor, white cotton appliqued Japanese character for 'civilian' in the centre of the hinamaru, and behind the disc a horizontal red appliqued 'zig-zag'. Fl...REL/09748
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Japanese Katana Sword Blade
Technology
Japanese sword blade. The tang is unsigned and is described in 1984 by the Japanese polisher Kotoken Kajihara as: "Shape: Shinogi-Zukuri, Length: 64.8 cm, Curvature: 2.5 cm, Kissaki: Sho-Kissaki, Nak...RELAWM30601.002
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Japanese Military Shin-gunto Sword Mountings
Technology
Japanese Military Sword Mountings. The hilt has mountings of the Showa (c 1930) period flower pattern Fushi-Kashira. The menuki are a copper crabs with pronounced claws and the tsuba (guard) is an ir...RELAWM30601.001
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Javanese lady (Soekira)
Art
Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicts a portrait of a Javanese women, Soekira, wife of Amat, one of the Javanese in Kampong 1, Tarakan.ART25997
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Kearney, Thomas Francis (Sergeant, b.1915 - d.1975)
Private Record
Maker: Kearney, Thomas Francis
Diary containing brief entries relating to landings at Tarakan and Balikpapan and news of the atomic bomb and later peace announcement, demobilisation papers and certificates of service. The collectio...PR86/009
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Kitbag : Private W G Humphreys, 2/2 Pioneer Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Brown canvas AIF embarkation kitbag. At the top of the bag are 11 brass eyelets with a hole in the bag where there is an eyelet missing. A cotton cord is threaded through these eyelets to close the ki...REL38813
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Knott, Colin, MBE ED (Lieutenant-Colonel, b:1919 d:1996)
Manuscript
Maker: Knott, Colin Campbell
Typescript manuscript entitled "Tarakan Operation" which was given as an address to the Military History Society of NSW by Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Knott MBE ED (Retired) on 21/4/95. Covers the backgr...MSS1635