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Abermain, NSW. c. 1920. A composite photograph, presented to the Abermain RSL by the ladies of ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Abermain, NSW. c. 1920. A composite photograph, presented to the Abermain RSL by the ladies of the Abermain Comforts Fund. The composite photograph comprises portraits of the twenty five servicemen fr...P01920.001
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A Memorial Card incorporating a studio portrait of 3538 Private (Pte) Belford Wellington Earl, ...
Photograph
Maker: Memorial Card Company
A Memorial Card incorporating a studio portrait of 3538 Private (Pte) Belford Wellington Earl, 55th Battalion of Narrabri, NSW. A station hand prior to enlistment on 4 August 1915, Pte Earl initiall...P07313.001
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A wooden grave marker erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at the Queant Road ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
A wooden grave marker erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at the Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, France. The two metal tags on the top vertical post read: "C.W.G.C./ Special Cross" . The...P09077.001
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Barker, James L (Private, 55th Bn, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Barker, James L
DIARY WITH BRIEF ENTRIES DESCRIBING JOURNEY TO EGYPT VIA COLOMBO AND SUEZ CANAL, ACTION IN TURKEY AND MOVEMENT AND ACTION IN FRANCEPR86/367
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Belgian Croix de Guerre : Private P E Monck, 55 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Belgian Croix de Guerre. Unnamed as issued. The medal and crown have separated, and the ribbon is missing. The owner has had his initials (PM) engraved into the upper arm of the reverse of the medal.REL43160.001
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Berryman, Gilbert (Private, b.1897 - d.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Berryman, Gilbert
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1879 Private Gilbert Berryman, 55 Battalion, 1917-1938. Wallet 1 of 1 - Consists of letters and other documents related to the death of Private B...PR88/210
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1. Bishop, Raymond Charles (Private, b.? - d.1916); 2. Bishop, Harold McKay (Lieutenant, b.? - d.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Bishop, Harold McKay Bishop, Raymond Charles
Collection relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Harold McKay Bishop, 3 Battalion and 3761 Private Raymond Charles Bishop, 55 Battalion, France 1916. Collection contains an account of...1DRL/0123
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British War Medal 1914-20: Captain William Norman Giblett, 55th Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/08705.003
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Corporal E A Corey, 55th Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/04727.002
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British War Medal 1914-20: Lieutenant James Edward Murray, 55th Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed edge with recipient's details.REL/09173.002
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Private A C Robertson, 3 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL41877
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Private P E Monck, 55 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details. In addition to the official naming the recipient has had his name ('P. Monck') engraved onto the obverse of the medal.REL43160.002
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Private S B Priestley, 55 Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around rim with recipient's details.REL38410
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Temporary Sergeant A T Winter, 17 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/18490.002
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Brown, Francis Cecil (Private, b.? - d.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Brown, Francis Cecil
Collection relating to service of 3212 Private Francis Cecil Brown, 55 Battalion, Egypt and France. 1916-1918. Collection includes letters written home to family in England. Copies made 1928 by Aust...1DRL/0160
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Campbell, Rupert J (Corporal, 55th Bn)
Private Record
Maker: Campbell, Rupert J
LETTERS FROM EGYPT AND FRANCE AND LETTERS. LETTERS CONTAIN QUITE LIVELY DESCRIPTIONS INCLUDING CAMPBELL'S DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION AT PERONNE WHERE HE WAS WOUNDED. SOME POSTCARDS BEAR PHOTOS OF CAMPB...3DRL/5087(B)
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c. 1916. A portrait of 4820 Private Lawrence Halpin, 55th Battalion. Private Halpin died on ...
Photograph
c. 1916. A portrait of 4820 Private Lawrence Halpin, 55th Battalion. Private Halpin died on 1917-10-11. His name appears on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. This portrait is taken from...P01920.022
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Chapman, Percy Wellesley (Captain, MC, 55th Bn, AIF b.1886 - d.1917)
Private Record
TRANSCRIPT OF DIARIES OF CHAPMAN 1915-1917, DESCRIBING VOYAGE TO GALLIPOLI AND ACTION THERE AND LATER POSTINGS IN FRANCE WHERE CHAPMAN WAS KILLED. WITH COPIES OF LETTERS, TELEGRAMS AND REPORTS CONCERN...PR86/389
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Chapman, Percy Wellesley, MC (Captain, b.c1887 - d.1917)
Private Record
Collection relating to service of Captain Percy Wellesley Chapman MC, 55 Battalion, Gallipoli, Egypt and France, 1916-1917. Collection includes typescript and photostat copies of diaries and letters ...1DRL/0198
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C.1917. HEAD AND SHOULDERS STUDIO PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM NORMAN GIBLETT, MC AND BAR, 55TH ...
Photograph
C.1917. HEAD AND SHOULDERS STUDIO PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM NORMAN GIBLETT, MC AND BAR, 55TH BATTALION AIF. (DONOR: MRS C.L. GIBLETT)P00798.001
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Collection relating to Albert Bissett Amess
Photograph
Maker: Sutcliffe & Akers
Outdoors group portrait of the officer trainees or cadets of No. 3 Platoon, No 5 Officers' Training School, Royal Military College (RMC), Duntroon. The group includes, together with the units the men ...P02241.002
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Colour patch : 55 Infantry Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Vertically aligned rectangular colour patch for 55 Infantry Battalion AIF, divided brown (left) against green.RELAWM13307.120
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1. Comb, J F 2. Brett, R P 3. Hinson, R S 4. Moriarty, M M (1. L Cpl, 53rd Bn, d.1918 2. Pte, 2nd Bn, d.1918 3. Dvr, 55th Bn, d.1918 4. Pte, 55th Bn d.1918)
Private Record
1. DIARY COVERING 1916 DESCRIBING CAMP AND TRAINING IN GOULBURN AND EGYPT, SERVICE IN FRANCE. 2. TRANSCRIPTS OF LETTERS, 1915-1916, DESCRIBING EGYPT, ACTION AND WOUNDING AT GALLIPOLI AND CONVALESCENCE...PR86/277
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Cosgrave, William Patrick (Sergeant, b.? - d.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Cosgrave, William Patrick
Collection relating to service of 2619 Sergeant William Patrick Cosgrave, 55 Battalion, France, 1915-1918. Collection includes extracts and copies of letters written home to family in Australia; copi...1DRL/0215
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C. 1916. STUDIO PORTRAIT OF PRIVATE J.A. MCPHEE 55TH BATTALION. DURING THE PERIOD SEPTEMBER TO ...
Photograph
C. 1916. STUDIO PORTRAIT OF PRIVATE J.A. MCPHEE 55TH BATTALION. DURING THE PERIOD SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1918 SERGEANT MCPHEE NOW THE TRANSPORT SERGEANT WAS AWARDED THE DCM FOR "CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY A...P01460.001
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Discharged Returned Soldier badge: Lieutenant James Edward Murray, 55th Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Discharged Returned Soldier badge with impressed serial number reverse '179155'.REL/09176
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Distinguished Conduct Medal : Corporal A T Winter, 55 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Distinguished Conduct Medal (Geo V). Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/18490.001
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Donelly, Dorothy
Private Record
Letter written to Miss Dorothy Donelly, thanking her for the socks she knitted. The socks had been received by 2971 Private Edward John Higgins of 55 Battalion, who wrote to Miss Donelly on 27 January...PR06148
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Dornap, Germany. 1917-01. A group portrait of three Allied prisoners of war. Identified, on the ...
Photograph
Dornap, Germany. 1917-01. A group portrait of three Allied prisoners of war. Identified, on the far left, is 2568 Private Percy G. Cooke MM, 15th Battalion. Private Cooke was awarded his Military Meda...P01930.002
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Egyptian silk damask fringed scarf : Private P E Monck, 55 Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Square woven silk damask scarf in golden yellow, overlaid by border bands in green and red featuring stylised flowers. The central panel features a repeating pattern of red vine leaves and arabesques....REL43163
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Farrall, Frederick T (Private, 55th Bn, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Farrall, Frederick Theodore
Scrapbook containing letters, souvenir programmes and various news cuttings.PR84/327
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Frederick Theodore Farrall (1647) as a private 55th Infantry Battalion AIF, France 1916-1918, interviewed by Dr Alistair Thomson
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Maker: Farrall, Frederick Theodore Thomson, Alistair
Frederick Theodore Farrall as a private 55th Infantry Battalion AIF, France 1916-1918, interviewed by Dr Alistair ThomsonS01311
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German army pickelhaube : Lance Sergeant W E Nicholson, 55 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Globus Max Bruckner
German army Prussian soldier's standard black patent leather pickelhaube. All the fittings present are of brass, except the spike which is made from tin plate in the shape of a cone and attached to th...REL/17217
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German shoulder strap: 55 Infantry Regiment (6 West falisches)
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
White piped, field grey wool shoulder strap, with a cotton chain stitch applied scarlet numeral '55'.RELAWM09968
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Gibbins, Norman (Captain, b.1878 - d.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Gibbins, Norman
Papers of Captain Norman Gibbins who served in the 55th Battalion during the First World War. Gibbins was killed in France on 20 July 1916. Collection consists of a photograph album containing black...PR02053
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Giblett, William Norman (Captain, MC and Bar, 55th Bn, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Giblett, William Norman
CONGRATULATORY LETTERS SENT TO GIBLETT FROM GEN BIRDWOOD AND TALBOT HOBBS FOLLOWING THE AWARD OF A BAR TO HIS MC AND EXTRACTS ANNOUNCING THE AWARD OF THE MC AND BARPR83/095
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Group of three Dunsterforces Officers, identified from left to right: Captain Francis Edgar ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group of three Dunsterforces Officers, identified from left to right: Captain Francis Edgar Williams, originally 32nd Battalion; Captain Eric George Scott-Olsen, MC, originally 55th Battalion, and Cap...J01312
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Group portrait of Bungendore servicemen in the 55th and 56th Battalions. Identified from left to ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group portrait of Bungendore servicemen in the 55th and 56th Battalions. Identified from left to right, back row: 2489 Private (Pte) Reuben Clarence Smith, 56th Battalion; 2485 Pte Cyril Thomas Smith,...P09678.001
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Group portrait of members of the 55th Battalion who enlisted in 'The Men from Snowy River' recruitment march
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group portrait of members of the 55th Battalion who enlisted in 'The Men from Snowy River' recruitment march in the Monaro region of NSW in January 1916. Back row, from left to right: 2139 Private (Pt...P06340.002
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Group portrait of officers of the 55th Battalion. Identified from left to right, back row: ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group portrait of officers of the 55th Battalion. Identified from left to right, back row: Chaplain David de Venny Hunter, (killed in action 28 September 1917 and buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery (Plot...A01429
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Group portrait of the 8th Reinforcements, 55th Battalion. Identified in the group are: 3114 ...
Photograph
Maker: Imperial Studios
Group portrait of the 8th Reinforcements, 55th Battalion. Identified in the group are: 3114 Private (Pte) Bertie Edward Blewitt, third row from back, fifth from left who returned to Australia on 23 Ju...P02145.001
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Group portrait of troops outside the Drill Hall at Goulburn Training Camp. Identified in the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group portrait of troops outside the Drill Hall at Goulburn Training Camp. Identified in the picture (third row, 11th from right) is 5435 Private (Pte) William Joseph Punch, 1st Battalion. William Pun...P01625.001
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Group portrait of unidentified officers of the Headquarters Group of the 55th Battalion, 14th ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group portrait of unidentified officers of the Headquarters Group of the 55th Battalion, 14th Brigade AIF which was engaged in action at Bullecourt and Polygon Wood.H00353
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Group portrait of volunteers of 'The Men from Snowy River' recruitment march in camp at Goulburn, ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group portrait of volunteers of 'The Men from Snowy River' recruitment march in camp at Goulburn, NSW. Identified are 2139 Private (Pte) Walter Gerald Collins of Numeralla (seated with white hat), 227...P06340.001
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Group portrait outside the railway station of B Company, 4th Reinforcements 55th Battalion, which ...
Photograph
Maker: Mcintosh, H S C
Group portrait outside the railway station of B Company, 4th Reinforcements 55th Battalion, which sailed from Sydney on 4 September 1916. Most of these men came from the Monaro area, from the Victoria...P01223.001
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Gulson, Kelvedon (Private, Citizens' Bushmen's Contingent (NSW) and 55th Bn)
Private Record
Maker: Gulson, Kelvedon
DISCHARGE FROM CITIZEN'S BUSHMENS CONTINGENT AND FROM 55TH BN OF GULSON3DRL/7294
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Harpley, Robert William (Private, b.1893 - d.1970)
Private Record
Maker: Harpley, Robert William
Collection relating to the First World War diary of 2963 Private Robert William Harpley, 55th Infantry Battalion. Collection consists of a handwritten diary (in two parts) covering 30 September 1915 ...3DRL/3663
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Horniman, Lancelot Vicary (Lieutenant, b.c.1894 - d.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Horniman, Lancelot Vicary
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Lancelot Vicary Horniman, 55 Battalion AIF, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, England, 1915-1918. Collection includes photostat copy of a diary covering the p...1DRL/0357
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Hunt, Sinclair E (Lieutenant, 55th Bn. d.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Hunt, Sinclair Edward
1. Narrative of experiences titled "The Operation at Polygon Wood". 2. Letter describing march of 55 Battalion across the desert in Egypt and their rescue by New Zealanders (see Battalion's war diary)...2DRL/0277