Digitised Collection

RCDIG1020302

Photograph

Maker: Thain, Ernest Robertson

1951-04-12. BADGE OF 49TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION (MILITIA). THE TRANSLATION OF MOTTE "SEMPER FIDELIS" IS "ALWAYS FAITHFUL".

134426

Manuscript

Maker: Beecroft, Doug

"James Morrisson Beecroft: Letters, diary entries and transcripts relating to an Australian airman's life : from Australia to Europe 1942 - 1945". Manuscript relating to the service in the 42nd and 49...

MSS1675

Photograph

BRISBANE, C. 1935. LIEUTENANT COLONEL O. A. KESSELS, COMMANDING OFFICER, 49TH BATTALION. (FROM THE 49TH BATTALION WAR DIARY).

044620

Photograph

Maker: Freeman, William Harry

BRISBANE, QLD. 1946-04-25. VETERANS OF THE 49TH BATTALION MARCH PAST THE SALUTING BASE AT THE CITY HALL DURING THE ANZAC DAY MARCH.

127300

Private Record

ALBUM CONTAINING PHOTOS, PAYBOOKS, CARDS, LETTERS, CERTIFICATES AND A DIARY RELATING TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR SERVICE OF THE GLANVILLE BROTHERS, THE DEATH OF SEPTIMUS GLANVILLE AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR ...

3DRL/7794

Photograph

Maker: Unknown

Hand-coloured studio portrait of Q28988 Private (Pte) Gordon Benjamin Young, 49th Battalion AMF (Stanley Regiment). A farm labourer from Coomera, Qld, Pte Young enlisted on 2 April 1941. He was killed...

P10195.001

Photograph

Maker: Stuckey, Norman Bradford

HERBERTON, QLD. 1943-06-12. LIEUTENANT I.A. HILL, OF THE 49TH BATTALION, 6TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION, OFFICIAL BROADCASTER AT THE DIVISIONAL RACE MEETING.

052431

Photograph

Maker: Unknown

Informal portrait of Q42358 Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) James Monaghan Garrett, 49 Battalion, of Corinda, Qld. Garrett had served as a Trooper (service number 3345A) with the Camel Corps and 1st...

P07924.002

Private Record

Maker: Johnson, Bertram Cecil

SERVICE PAPERS, COPY OF 1942 MORESBY PORT FORCE REPORT WRITTEN BY MAJOR JOHNSON AND EXTRACTS OF 49TH BN HISTORY, "ALWAYS FAITHFUL"

PR88/032

Art

Maker: Abbott, Harold

Portrait of Lieutenant Stuart Heilbrun (QX3723), an Intelligence Officer with 49th Australian Infantry Battalion in New Guinea. Lt Heilbrun later joined 2/5th Australian Infantry Battalion after being...

ART21420

Photograph

Maker: Unknown

Members of 9/49th Battalion AIF marching to St John's Cathedral for a laying-up of colours ceremony. Identified left to right: CQMS Woodcroft; Captain C J Stead with the King's Colour; Lieutenant T Co...

044619

Photograph

MOOROOKA, QUEENSLAND. 1945-03-31. WARRANT OFFICER I, H. BUCHANAN, WHO SERVES WITH THE 9TH AND 49TH INFANTRY BATTALION DURING THE 1914-18 WAR, AND RECEIVED THE MILITARY MEDAL AND BAR, IS WELL KNOWN FOR...

087890

Photograph

Maker: Brown, Norman

NEW GUINEA. A PAPUAN INFANTRY BATTALION PATROL LED BY AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS SETS OUT INTO THE MOUNTAINS FROM KUMBARUM, BELOW SHAGGY RIDGE. THE AUSTRALIANS LEADING THE PATROL, FROM THE LEFT, ARE: SERGEAN...

016086

Photograph

Maker: Fisher, Thomas

PARI BEACH, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. A LITTLE EXERTION IS THE ONLY PRICE OF A COCONUT FOR THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA. IN THIS PICTURE TWO AUSSIES HAVE REACHED THE TOP OF THE TREE AND ARE ABOUT TO T...

025989

Photograph

Maker: Fisher, Thomas

PARI BEACH, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. A LITTLE EXERTION IS THE ONLY PRICE OF A COCONUT FOR THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA. HERE A MEMBER OF THE 49TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION SEEN CLIMBING A TREE TO...

025988

Photograph

Maker: Fisher, Thomas

PARI BEACH, PAPUA, 1942-07-20. A MEMBER OF 20 PLATOON 49TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION ENJOYING A LONG DRAUGHT OF COOL MILK FROM A COCONUT HE HAS OBTAINED BY CLIMBING A NEARBY TREE.

025991

Photograph

Maker: Fisher, Thomas

PARI BEACH, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. PERSONNEL OF 20 PLATOON, 49TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION ENJOYING THE COOL MILK OF COCONUTS, THEY HAVE OBTAINED BY CLIMBING A NEARBY COCONUT TREE.

025990

Photograph

Maker: Fisher, Thomas

PORT MORESBY, PAPU, 1942-07. GROUP OF OFFICERS OF 30TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE. LEFT TO RIGHT:- LIEUTENANT-COLONEL O.A. KESSELS, OFFICER COMMANDING 49TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, BRIGADIER S....

025958

Photograph

PORTRAIT OF QX42219 CORPORAL LESLIE CHARLES UPTON, 49 INF BN, KIA SANANANDA 1942-12-27, AGED 22. (DONOR: W.H. CONNELL)

P00871.007