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Advanced dressing station near Tengah, February 1942
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
This advanced dressing station provided care to the Australian 8th Division forces during the Battle for Singapore. The hospital was located near the large airfield at Tengah in western Singapore.ART24478
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Africa Star : Private G E Chard, 2/15 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Africa Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details.REL35307.002
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AIF Malaya memorial
Art
Maker: Dowie, John Stuart Meridian Sculpture Founders
Statue in memory of the men and women of the AIF Malaya who held up the Japanese advance on Singapore 14 January - 15 Feburary 1942.ART41004
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Ambulances lined up on the Alexandria wharf are ready to receive wounded troops evacuated from ...
Photograph
Maker: Halmarick, Colin Thomas
Ambulances lined up on the Alexandria wharf are ready to receive wounded troops evacuated from Tobruk by naval units.020463
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Australian wounded and Chinese bearers
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Depicts studies of Chinese stretcher bearers and wounded Australian soldiers Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Mrs Kate Hodgkinson in memory of Frank HodgkinsonART94185
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Australia Service Medal : Private G E Chard, 2/15 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL35307.005
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Private G E Chard, 2/15 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL35307.004
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Casualty
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
This work shows three unidentified soldiers, two assisting a third who has been wounded. This work was reproduced in the Australian War Memorial publication 'Khaki and Green' in 1943 with the title '...ART25494
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Cell block key, Changi Prison: Sergeant Frederick George Butt, 2/30 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Chubb, London
Large, chrome-plated steel warded key, impressed 'A' on one side of the oval bow, and 'CHUBB LONDON' on the other. Attached to a large (78mm diameter) circular split-ring holder.REL46985
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Defence Medal : Private G E Chard, 2/15 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Defence Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL35307.003
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Evacuation of wounded from Rai Mean
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicting a scene of the evacuation of the wounded by Catalina from Rai Mean, Timor.ART26222
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Female Relatives Badge : Mrs Agatha Kermode
Heraldry
Maker: G & E Rodd
Female Relative badge. Circular badge with a wreath surmounted by a King's Crown. Inside is a map of Australian surrounded by another wreath and the words 'TO THE WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA'. A bar with two s...AWM2018.590.1
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Flying Sisters' Quarters No.2 M.A. E.T.U, Morotai
Art
Maker: Heysen, Nora
The Sisters' Quarters of No. 2 Royal Australian Air Force Medical Air Evacuation Transport Unit, Morotai.ART24295
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German Army Officers cap badge taken from a injured female Chinese soldier : Private D H Wilson, 2 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Cast aluminium German army officer's cap badge with Swastika and eagle; missing two of the three attachment pins to the reverse.REL31332
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German 1939 Black Wound Badge
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939 Black Wound Badge. Oval shaped pressed blackened steel. Obverse: A German steel helmet with a swastika on the left side, over crossed swords within a laurel wreath tied at the base with a bow. Re...RELAWM30361
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German 1939 Silver Wound Badge
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939 Silver Wound Badge. Oval shaped silver plated alloy. Obverse: A German steel helmet, with a swastika on the left side, over crossed swords within a laurel wreath tied at the base with a bow. Reve...RELAWM30362
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851598 Gnr. Hill, E.J. - skin graft foot
Art
Maker: Chalker, Jack
Two feet, one before and the other after a skin graft. Jack Chalker was serving in the Royal Artillery when he was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thaila...ART90899
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Group portrait of Australian hospital patient 'George' flanked by two Italian men, including Romeo Gallo, in Udine, Italy
Photograph
Maker: Quinto Chiaro Fotografo
Group portrait of an Australian serviceman, 'George', and two young Italian men, taken in a hospital where George was a patient. He is wearing pyjamas and his head appears to be bandaged or in a cap; ...P12694.001
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Group portrait of nurses and patients in a recovery ward in an Northampton war hospital. 252A ...
Photograph
Maker: Fegan, James W (Jack)
Group portrait of nurses and patients in a recovery ward in an Northampton war hospital. 252A Private (Pte) Frederick John Ashton, 31st Battalion, is seated on the far left with a bandaged hand. Follo...P09441.002
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Group portrait, probably of the 1st Reinforcements, 14th Light Horse prior to embarkation. ...
Photograph
Maker: Fegan, James W (Jack)
Group portrait, probably of the 1st Reinforcements, 14th Light Horse prior to embarkation. Identified is 252 Private (Pte) Frederick John Ashton, standing third from the right.P09441.003
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H2498 Able Seaman Donald George Betts, HMAS Australia, being carried from an American merchant ...
Photograph
H2498 Able Seaman Donald George Betts, HMAS Australia, being carried from an American merchant ship berthed at No 5 Wharf, Circular Quay, Sydney.082909
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Hudsons over Oro Bay
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicting an incident which happened whilst the artist was sitting on the beach at Oro Bay. Two Hudson's of the Royal Australian Air Force had taken off from Dobodura, with wounded and sick for genera...ART21695
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LAE, NEW GUINEA. 1945-06-09. PRIVATE F. MCLENNAN, 24 INFANTRY BATTALION, A PATIENT AT 2/7 GENERAL ...
Photograph
LAE, NEW GUINEA. 1945-06-09. PRIVATE F. MCLENNAN, 24 INFANTRY BATTALION, A PATIENT AT 2/7 GENERAL HOSPITAL. SHOT BY A JAPANESE SNIPER WHEN HIS PATROL WAS AMBUSHED, HE WAS LEFT FOR DEAD IN THE JUNGLE. ...092804
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Lapel badge: King's Badge, British - Boy First Class W J Irwin, Royal Navy
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Round silver lapel badge with the Royal cypher (GvR) and crown in the centre bordered by the words 'FOR LOYAL SERVICE'. A lapel fitting is soldered to the reverse. Contained within its original issue ...REL35083
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Medical officer attending to head wound at battalion headquarters
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Hele depicts a medical officer treating a head wound at the Regimental Aid Post of 2/3rd Australian Independent Company, Timbered Knoll, Salamaua, New Guinea.ART22493
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Native carriers - Wanigela District
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Two Papuan men are carrying supplies over their shoulders.ART22072
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'Omnopon' morphine syringe ampoule and record card : Flight Lieutenant T E W Howes, RAAF, 70 Squadron RAF
Technology
Maker: Roche Products Ltd
Small 1.1 cc aluminium tube sealed with a integral syringe needle, capped with a tiny cork, within a protective glass ampoule. The throat of the tube is marked 'Tubunic'. The tube is marked 'Poison (i...REL34360.001
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On Shaggy Ridge
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Pen and ink sketch, intended to inform a larger painting later, of four Australian soldiers. One man is in a stretcher, with one attending to him, while two others are walking up the ridge. Dargie n...ART21329
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Ordinary Seaman W Sutton, a badly burned casualty from HMAS Australia, being carried from an ...
Photograph
Ordinary Seaman W Sutton, a badly burned casualty from HMAS Australia, being carried from an American merchant ship at No 5 Wharf, Circular Quay, Sydney.082906
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Portrait of NX1837 Lieutenant Courtney Norman Swinton, 2/2 Battalion, recovering from a wound he ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Portrait of NX1837 Lieutenant Courtney Norman Swinton, 2/2 Battalion, recovering from a wound he sustained during the Greek campaign. He is standing on the roof of the New Zealand hospital, Helouan, E...P04680.004
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Shooting wounded Japanese, Timbered Knoll
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australians of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force shooting wounded Japanese at Timbered Knoll, New Guinea.ART33838
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Sketch for wounded soldier for above painting [ART22222]
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a drawing of a wounded soldier. Muleteers under mortar fire at Damour, Syria. A sketch for No. 47. This sketch was intended as a preparatory study for a final painting of a scene from the Bat...ART22031
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Sketch of dead soldier and mule for above incident [ART22222]
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a dead soldier and a mule. Muleteers under mortar fire at Damour, Syria. This sketch was intended as a preparatory study for a final painting of a scene from the Battle for Damour.ART22032
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S4988 Leading Writer Kenneth Edwin Fuller (1) with his wife (2) and son Robert (3), at No 5 Wharf ...
Photograph
S4988 Leading Writer Kenneth Edwin Fuller (1) with his wife (2) and son Robert (3), at No 5 Wharf Circular Quay with the arrival of wounded from HMAS Australia. Many of the men had been badly wounded ...082905
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St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
A few days before the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, on the 12th February, St Andrew's Cathedral was cleared of its seats and taken over by 2/9th and 2/10th Field Ambulances. The Cathedral buildin...ART26531
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1939-45 Star : Private G E Chard, 2/15 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939-45 Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details.REL35307.001
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Steel Helmet: Gunner Reginald Sydney Cole, 2/1 Survey Regiment
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British pattern steel helmet that has received a glancing blow from a bullet. There is an entrance and exit hole that indicate that this was not a penetrating wound for its wearer but that the bullet ...RELAWM32930
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Stretcher bearers
Art
Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Bronze statue of a soldier lying on a stretcher with two stretcher bearers tending him. This edition was cast in bronze in 1985 by Meridian Sculpture Founders, Melbourne.ART40930
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Stretcher bearers in the Owen Stanleys
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts four unidentified Papua New Guineans carrying a wounded man on a stretcher made of sapplings. Beside them is a walking wounded case and past them up the track are soldiers going into action. W...ART26653
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Studio portrait of PM7168 Ordinary Seaman (OS) Richard Southey Hookins, HMAS Australia, of ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Studio portrait of PM7168 Ordinary Seaman (OS) Richard Southey Hookins, HMAS Australia, of Elsternwick, Victoria. An insurance clerk prior to enlistment, Hookins enlisted on 9 November 1943. On 21 Oct...P07597.002
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Studio portrait of 252 Private (Pte) Frederick John Ashton, 14th Light Horse. Pte Ashton a ...
Photograph
Maker: Fegan, James W (Jack)
Studio portrait of 252 Private (Pte) Frederick John Ashton, 14th Light Horse. Pte Ashton a labourer prior to enlistment embarked with the 1st Reinforcements from Sydney aboard HMAT Beltana A72 on 13 M...P09441.001
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Studio portrait of QX10423 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Laurence Harold Bruggemann, 2/25th Battalion. A ...
Photograph
Maker: Cooper, Roy
Studio portrait of QX10423 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Laurence Harold Bruggemann, 2/25th Battalion. A native of Oakey, Qld, he enlisted on 4 July 1940. Later promoted to the rank of Corporal, Cpl Bruggema...P07595.001
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Verners Pattern VIII Prismatic Compass : C Degnan, Durham Light Infantry
Technology
Maker: S. Mordan & Co Wolfsky & Co
Verner's Pattern No VIII prismatic compass with circular brass body marked with degrees on exterior side, with hinged glassed lid, prism viewer, momentary bearing lock pin-button and compass rose tran...REL42299.001
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Walking wounded from HMAS Australia awaiting transport at No 5 Wharf, Circular Quay, Sydney. Many ...
Photograph
Walking wounded from HMAS Australia awaiting transport at No 5 Wharf, Circular Quay, Sydney. Many of the men had been badly wounded during a Japanese kamikaze attack at Leyte Gulf in October 1944.082904
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Wallet 1 of 1 - Letters relating to the wounding of Arthur Roden Cutler at the Battle of Damour and recommendation for the Victoria Cross, 1941
Digitised Collection
Maker: Cutler, Arthur Roden O'Brien, John William Alexander
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Lieutenant Arthur Roden Cutler VC, 2/5 Field Regiment, Lebanon, Palestine, 1941. Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection consists of two letters related to C...AWM2021.22.15
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Wounded, among the olives
Art
Maker: Winters, Michael
An Australian soldier lies bleeding to death among the olive trees in Crete.ART92792
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Wounded at the church, Imvros
Art
Maker: Winters, Michael
A church at Imvros was used by the Allied troops as a shelter in which to treat the wounded and the dying during the retreat.ART92788
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Wounded native carrier
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of Kanjingai, a native carrier for Australian New Guinea Administration Unit (ANGAU), was with a patrol of Commandos when he was wounded in an encounter with the Japanese in a villa...ART21613
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Wounded soldiers being transferred from a barge to Hospital Ship Wanganella.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Wounded soldiers being transferred from a barge to Hospital Ship Wanganella.P10769.001