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Albert Ray Irvine as a member of 214 Squadron, No 100 (Bomber Support) Group, 1943-1944, and a prisoner of war in Germany, 1944-1945, interviewed by John Fincher.
Sound
Maker: Irvine, Albert Ray Fincher, John Farram
Background, family and employment before joining the RAAF; he had initially applied to the AIF but was not accepted on medical grounds. In 1942 he went to Calgary, Canada, to be part of the Empire Air...S02854
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Albert Ray Irvine recounts his experiences as a flying officer, wireless air gunner, 214 Squadron, No 100 (Bomber Support) Group and a prisoner of war, 1942-1945, in an oral memoir.
Sound
Maker: Irvine, Albert Ray Irvine, Albert Ray
Irvine discusses his training in Australia, Canada and Waddington in England before posting to 214 Squadron flying Stirlings and then B-17s specially equipped with radar jamming devices to protect the...S02855
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Album containing 99 black and white photographs, relating to the service of 422768 Flying Officer ...
Photograph
Album containing 99 black and white photographs, relating to the service of 422768 Flying Officer (FO) Roy Frederick Turner, 570 Squadron RAAF, whilst in training at the No.2 Wireless Air Gunners Scho...P08216
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A L'Oeuvre: C'est Notre Guerre
Art
Maker: Aldwinckle, Eric Department of National War Services Department of Public Information
This poster was one of a number produced by Canadian artist Eric Aldwinckle during the Second World War. Also printed with English text, this poster depicts a man's muscular arm wielding a hammer, tha...ARTV02467
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Arthur William Doubleday, as a Squadron Leader, Second World War, RAAF and RAF, interviewed by Ed Stokes for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Sound
Maker: Doubleday, Arthur William Stokes, Edward
(402945) Arthur William Doubleday, as a squadron leader Bomber Command, RAAF and RAF, interviewed by Ed Stokes for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45 Speaks of his ear...S00546
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Ashford, Geoffrey Reginald (Flight Sergeant)
Private Record
Maker: Ashford, Geoffrey Reginald
Certificates, letters, photographs and other service records of Flight Sergeant Ashford relating to his service with the 459 Squadron in the Second World WarPR01070
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Avro Anson trainers near Rockies
Art
Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Avro Anson trainers being flown by RAAF personnel near the Canadian Rockies, a short distance from Calgary. Ralph Malcolm Warner was appointed Official War Artist in 1943, covering the activities of t...ART21280
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Berglund, Geoff, (Flying Officer)
Private Record
Maker: Berglund, Geoff
Flying logbook and personal diaries which provide a detailed insight into the training and operational service of a Bomber Command Air Gunner. Discusses his experiences on operations in Lancaster over...PR00402
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Beware: Spreading Vital Information Will Undermine Our War Effort
Art
Maker: Unknown The Department of Public Information
1942 Canadian Second World War poster promoting the importance of not spreading information. The poster depicts a caricature of Adolf Hitler looking down upon a conversation between soldiers of each o...ARTV02459
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Bierwirth, Rudolph (Lieutenant General, b.1899-d.1993)
Private Record
Maker: Bierwirth, Rudolph
Collection relating to the Korean War service of 314 Lieutenant General Rudolph Bierwirth, British Commonwealth Forces Korea, England, Japan and Australia, 1955-1956. Wallet 1 of 1 – Consists of pap...3DRL/6409
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Bowman, Alan W (Flying Officer, RAAF)
Private Record
Maker: Bowman, Alan Wollaston
FOLDER CONTAINING TRAINING NOTES ON THEORY OF BOMBING AND SYLLABUS OF METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUCTION FOR COURSES IN CANADA3DRL/6653
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Brabin, Harold William (Warrant Officer, b.1922)
Manuscript
Maker: Brabin, Harold William
Memoirs of Harold Brabin, recalling enlistment in Australia in RAAF, training in Canada, Scotland, and Litchfield, leave in New York and England, qualification as Wireless Air Gunner and posting to 10...MSS1558
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Brown, Roye Wilmott “Bill” (Flying Officer, b.1918 - d.1942)
Private Record
Maker: Brown, Roye Wilmott
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 404932 Flying Officer Roye Wilmott Brown, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), attached to 103 Squadron, Royal Air Force (RAF), Canada and England,...PR03872
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Bryant, Robert Maxwell (Flying Officer b.1921 - d.1943)
Private Record
Maker: Bryant, Robert Maxwell
Extensive collection of papers (including letters, diaries, logbooks) describing enlistment, training in Australia and Canada, and active service in Europe. Includes `Australia Remembers' souvenir lea...PR00275
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Burrows, Wilfrid Gordon (Sergeant, b.1917 - d.1943)
Private Record
Maker: Burrows, Wilfrid Gordon
Notes and letters regarding flight training in Australia and Canada, letters relating to missions from England and information on Burrows' death in action. Newscuttings and photograph album.PR85/078
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Cameron, Colin Stewart (Flight Sergeant, b.1923 - d.1943)
Private Record
Maker: Cameron, Colin Stewart
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 422410 Flight Sergeant Colin Stewart Cameron, 10 Squadron. The four letters date from April to August 1943, They were sent to Cameron's father's ...PR04744
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CANADA, C.1941. SQUADRON LEADER J.R. GORDON FROM THE AUSTRALIAN AIR LIAISON MISSION ADDRESSING ...
Photograph
CANADA, C.1941. SQUADRON LEADER J.R. GORDON FROM THE AUSTRALIAN AIR LIAISON MISSION ADDRESSING GUESTS AT THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE ANZAC CLUB, CANADA. AUSTRALIA'S HIGH COMMISSIONER TO CANADA MAJOR G...P00048.136
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Canada's new army needs men like you
Art
Maker: Aldwinckle, Eric OTTAWA : DEPT. OF NATIONAL DEFENSE : DEPT. OF PUBLIC NATIONAL DEFENSE : DEPT. OF PUBLIC INFORMATION.
A Second World War recruitment poster by Canadian commercial artist Eric Aldwinckle. This design depicts a man on a motorcycle in the foreground that is balanced on its back wheel, in front of two add...ARTV06520
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Canadian Fall, near Ottawa
Art
Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Depicting the many colours which Autumn brings to the landscape of Canada. A scene typical of many witnessed by trainees of the Royal Australian Air Force who sojourned in Canada whilst training under...ART21998
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Canadian Radar Detachment
Manuscript
Photocopied account titled `Canadians (radar) in the South Pacific', of Canadian Radar Detachment to Australia during 1944-1946, comprising of RCA, RCEME, and RCAPC personnel. Account compiled from of...MSS1589
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Careless Talk Brings Tragedy in Wartime
Art
Maker: Jameson, Lionel Department of Public Information
Canadian Second World War poster advising about the importance of keeping secrets. The poster is created in the form of a comic strip, depicting a timeline between a soldier telling his sweetheart abo...ARTV02464
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Cartoon for transport mural (North America)
Art
Maker: Millen, M J
Depicts a mural design of a stylised map of North and Central America, with the Statue of Liberty, an American flag, figures of native American Indians and teepees, an 18th century sailing ship, a map...ART28514
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Cave, Sidney F (Flight Lieutenant, b.1912)
Private Record
Maker: Cave, Sidney Frederick
Notes, log books, identity cards, pay books, forms relating to demobilization, loading manifests, newscuttings and very brief diary relating to Flight Lieutenant Cave's RAAF service.3DRL/7896
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Childs, Thelma Minnie (Matron, b.1914 - d.2003)
Private Record
Maker: Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Matron Thelma Minnie Childs (nee Moxham), Australia, America, Canada, United Kingdom and New Guinea. Collection consists of letters, certificates...AWM2016.391.8
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Clarkson, John F (Pilot Officer, b.1916 - d.1990)
Private Record
Maker: Clarkson, John F
Letters to his family describing training as a Wireless-Air Gunner, operations, leave, mail, close relations of a Lancaster crew, and later service in the SWPA with groups 569, 681, 628.PR00415
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Collection relating to 440362 Warrant Officer Keith Campbell, RAAF, and A26715 Leading Air Mechanic Alexander Campbell, RAN.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group portrait relating to 440362 Warrant Officer Keith Campbell's Royal Australian Air Force service, inscribed with signatures on the back.P12737.004
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Collection relating to 440362 Warrant Officer Keith Campbell, RAAF, and A26715 Leading Air Mechanic Alexander Campbell, RAN.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group portrait relating to 440362 Warrant Officer Keith Campbell's Royal Australian Air Force service. Keith Campbell is seated second from the right in the front row. An RAAF Wireless Operator patch ...P12737.003
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Collection relating to 440362 Warrant Officer Keith Campbell, RAAF, and A26715 Leading Air Mechanic Alexander Campbell, RAN.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Informal standing portrait, probably of 440362 Warrant Officer Keith Campbell, taken in Royal Canadian Air Force sleeping quarters.P12737.005
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Collection relating to 440362 Warrant Officer Keith Campbell, RAAF, and A26715 Leading Air Mechanic Alexander Campbell, RAN.
Photograph
Exterior standing portrait of a uniformed man wearing a gas mask and metal helmet. In the foreground, the words '93 SQDN RAAF RCAF' have been spelled out with pebbles.P12737.007
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Collection relating to 440362 Warrant Officer Keith Campbell, RAAF, and A26715 Leading Air Mechanic Alexander Campbell, RAN.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Informal standing portrait of two men. In the foreground, the words '93 SQDN RAAF RCAF' have been spelled out with pebbles.P12737.006
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COSGRIFF, Brian, P (Flying Officer, b.1922 - d.1944)
Private Record
Maker: Cosgriff, Brian
Diary kept by Flying Officer Brian Cosgriff between April 1943 and July 1944. The diary commences with Cosgriff's departure from Australia as a member of the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) aboard t...PR00708
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Coutman, Harold (Able Seaman, RANR)
Private Record
Maker: Coutman, Harold
PHOTOGRAPH OF A B COUTMAN AND A LETTER HE SENT TO HIS GRANDMOTHER DESCRIBING HIS STAY IN CANADA WHERE HE WAS DOING A COURSE. HE ALSO MENTIONS A TRIP TO ICELAND, SCOTLAND AND WARTIME CONDITIONSPR87/214
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Cowper, Robert Barson (Squadron Leader), DFC and bar; McCall, Katharine (Corporal)
Private Record
Maker: Cowper, Robert Barson McCall, Katharine Various
Collection relating to 407666 Squadron Leader Robert Cowper, 456 Squadron and his fiancee (later wife) 422366 Corporal Katharine McCall, WAAF. It comprises correspondence between Cowper and McCall, ...PR03428
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Craigen, George Percy (Flight Lieutenant, RAAF, b.1919)
Private Record
Maker: Craigen, George Percy
Discharge certificates, pay book and flying log book kept while training with the Royal Canadian Air Force.PR89/071
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Crapp, Errol Clifton (Flying Officer, d.1943)
Private Record
Maker: Crapp, Errol Clifton
Flying log book, diaries, letters and telegrams relating to FO Crapp's training as a navigator in Canada and England and his service with 460 Squadron and 100 Squadron RAF. There are 3 diaries and ove...PR00144
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Cruden, David (Don) Macdonald (Flight Lieutenant), DFC
Private Record
Maker: Cruden, David 'Don' MacDonald
A collection of papers of Flight Lieutenant David 'Don' Cruden consisting of 20 navigators' logs and charts (1944-1945), a GEE radar navigation plot chart, no 5 Air Observers' School graduation dinner...PR00159
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Darke, Roy Harry (Flying Officer, b.1923 – d.1972)
Private Record
Maker: Commonwealth of Australia Darke, Roy Harry
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 432678 Flying Officer Roy Harry Darke, 456 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, 1943 to 1945. Wallet 1 of 2 – Consists of four books [with asso...AWM2020.984.9
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(403403) Davenport, Jack Napier (Wing Commander)
Sound
Maker: Davenport, Jack Napier Llewelyn, Kenneth
Wing Commander Jack Napier Davenport , interviewed by Ken Llewellyn about his service with Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during the Second World WarS01651
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David Jennings, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), interviewed by Ken Llewelyn about his service as a Lancaster pilot with 50 Squadron Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command during the Second World War, including being shot down and subsequent period as a prisoner of war
Sound
Maker: Jennings, David Austin Llewelyn, Kenneth
O6504 (408349) Jennings, David Austin (Flight Lieutenant )S01667
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Davidson, Charles Edward DFC, (Flight Lieutenant, b.1923)
Private Record
Maker: Davidson, Charles Edward
Davidson's memoirs detailing his training and operational role as a navigatpr with 464 Sqn, flying against German positions in France.PR84/037
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Die Weltkarte mit dem Kolonialbesitz der grossen Machte [World map with the colonial possessions of the great powers]
Art
Maker: Unknown Unknown Unknown
A German map of the world showing the pre-Second World War extent of the empires, colonies and mandates of Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Belgium and Holland.ARTV09276
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Donald Ernest Cameron Charlwood, as Flight Lieutenant (408794) interviewed for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive
Sound
Maker: Bowden, Timothy Gibson 'Tim' Charlwood, Donald Ernest Cameron (Don)
Donald Ernest Cameron Charlwood, 103 Squadron Bomber Command RAAF and RAF, interviewed by Tim Bowden for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45 Discussing reasons for join...S00568
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Donald's decision
Film
Maker: Walt Disney Productions
Walt Disney cartoon produced for the Canadian government with a war loan theme featuring Donald Duck.F01306
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Dyson, John Henry (Flight Sergeant, b.1916 - d.1942)
Private Record
Maker: Dyson, John Henry
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 402569 Flight Sergeant John Henry “Jack” Dyson, No. 405 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Canada and United Kingdom, 1940-1942. Flight Serge...PR05367
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Eastway, Richard Elias (Flying Officer, b.1923 - d.1998)
Private Record
Maker: Eastway, Richard Elias
Papers of 423231 Flying Officer Richard E Eastway, Royal Australian Air Force. Eastway's logbook documents his training in Canada and operational flying in Europe, including Berlin, with 625 Squadron...PR04028
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Enright, Edwin George (Sergeant, b.1912-d.1941)
Private Record
Maker: Enright, Edwin George
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 402960 Sergeant Edwin George 'Eddie' Enright, 72 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, 1940-1941. Wall...PR03827
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Entertainment for the Troops Collection, Souvenirs 4
Published Collection
Maker: Various
The collection contains a diverse range of items such as invitations to afternoon teas, dances, dinners, parties and receptions, maps and guides to cities, accommodation and transport, and details of ...RC02398
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Entraining at Calgary
Art
Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
General view of Canadian Pacific Rail depot showing Royal Australian Air Force personnel entraining for return to Australia on completion of their training at Canadian Air Schools under the Empire Air...ART22819
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Epstein, Julius (Flight Lieutenant, DFC and Bar, 90 Sqn and 7 Sqn, RAF b.1920)
Private Record
Maker: Epstein, Julius
PERSONAL PAPERS, RCAF FLYING LOG BOOK, CERTIFICATE ANNOUNCING THE AWARD OF THE PATHFINDER FORCE BADGE TO EPSTEIN. LETTERS CONCERNING HIS MEDAL ENTITLEMENTS AND CIVILIAN FLYING MATERIALPR84/230
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Every Canadian Must Fight
Art
Maker: Surrey, Philip Department of National Service
Canadian Second World War poster by Philip Surrey. The same design was used in the United States also. The poster visually depicts the munitions worker as 'backing' the soldier. The poster aims to pro...ARTV02458