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Autographed Nazi vehicle identification flag : Private W J Murray, 2/2nd Machine Gun Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Red cotton flag with a brass grommet of 9 mm diameter in each corner. Appliqued at the centre of one side is a white disk on which is a black swastika. The centre of the flag has the service numbers a...REL38225
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Francis (Frank) Herbertson, Captain 2/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Sound
Maker: Herbertson, Francis (Frank)
Discussing pre-war employment; Anzac tradition; enlistment; training at Redbank, Qld; Vickers machine gun; embarkation on the Aquitania for Middle East; arrival in Palestine at Khassa Camp; reputation...S00588
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Hand written Range Table for Mk VIIIz .303 ammunition : 2/2 Australian Machine Gun Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Cockram, H J C Longhurst, Augustus William
Range table, hand written in black ink on lambskin, for Mk VIIIz .303 ammunition. The table is actually made up of two separate charts, each graduated down the left hand side in 50 foot intervals up t...REL30139.001
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Hand written Vertical Interval graph for Mk VIIIz .303 ammunition : 2/2 Australian Machine Gun Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Cockram, H J C Longhurst, Augustus William
V I (Vertical Interval) graph, hand written in black ink on lambskin, for Mk VIIIz .303 ammunition. The graph has a title panel which reads 'V.I. Graph. 0.8.85 John C Cockram', and is graduated up the...REL30139.002
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Plank, Derrick Louis (Sergeant, b.1910 - d.1991)
Private Record
Maker: Plank, Derrick Louis
Plank's letters to his wife, Marjorie, during his war time service. Describe movements, activities, training, attitudes to locals, growing frustration with Army life, emotions. Some letters censored, ...PR90/182
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. 1943-02-27. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE RETURN OF THE 2/2ND, AUSTRALIAN MACHINE ...
Photograph
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. 1943-02-27. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE RETURN OF THE 2/2ND, AUSTRALIAN MACHINE GUN BATTALION FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH THE 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION, SHOWS THE CENTRE OF A NAZI FLAG, CAP...029701
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SYDNEY, NSW. 1943-02-27. MEMBERS OF THE 2/2ND AUSTRALIAN MACHINE GUN BATTALION, ON THEIR RETURN ...
Photograph
SYDNEY, NSW. 1943-02-27. MEMBERS OF THE 2/2ND AUSTRALIAN MACHINE GUN BATTALION, ON THEIR RETURN FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH THE 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION, PROUDLY DISPLAY A NAZI FLAG CAPTURED BY THE BATTA...029700
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Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph (Sergeant, b.1919 - d.1996)
Private Record
Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph alpha lithograph
Sketchbook containing drawings and comments by Sergeant Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) of 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion. Sketches depict various war scenes, caricatures and events, while serving in Mi...PR01819