Icon and Archive projections
Women friends and family waving farewell to the troop transport ship Strathallan carrying the Advance Party of the 6th Division AIF to service overseas.
Members of the AIF's Forestry Unit at work in North Britain, sawing a fallen pine to required lengths.
Derna, Libya, 1941-01-30. The official war photographers in action at night, with flashes of light on the horizon indicating a battle is taking place.
Mediterranean area, 1941-04. Two crew members of HMAS Perth watching the effect on the sea of the ship travelling at high speed.
Western Desert. 1940-06-10. A single line of men of the 2/7th battalion silhoutted as they file up a sandy slope during a desert patrol.
Despite their ordeal after being evacuated from Crete, these diggers could still grin when a camera was pointed their way.
A member of the Land Girl's Army at work on at "Killara", a farm near Stawella, Victoria, September 1941.
Smiling veterans of Tobruk who don't seem to answer to Lord Haw Haw's description, "Rats of Tobruk"
Singapore, 1942-02-03. Two women wailing and crying for the small child whose dead body lies nearby after a Japanese air attack.
Buna, Papua, 25 December 1942. Qx23902 Private George C. "Dick" Whittington being helped along a track through the kunai grass
Pacific area no 7, Philippines. 25 October 1944. General Macarthur wading through the water from the landing craft to return to the Philippines.
27 June 1945. Australian artillerymen in Alligators, amphibious tracked vehicles, making for the beach during the landing at Balikpapan, North Borneo.
24 May 1945. Australian troops proceeding on recreational leave to Australia on board the troopship Katoomba.
his photograph comes from a series by the British official photographer, Len Chetwyn, showing Australians at El Alamein.
1943-05. Formal portrait of Damien Parer, official military cameraman with the Department of Information Film Unit.
VF346984 Corporal (Cpl) Winifred Cormack, G Branch Photographic Section, HQ Victorial Lines of Communication Area, develops her negatives.
Tarakan, Borneo. 1945-04-30. Men of 2/13 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, rest after the initial attempt to get ashore to blow wire defences.
Tarakan, Borneo. 1945-04-30. Sapper R.A.R Stevenson (1), and Lance-Corporal R.C. Mace (2), members of 2/13 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers.
Sydney, NSW. 1945-10-11. Part of the crowd at Woolloomooloo wharf waiting to greet returning members of the Eighth Division.
Balikpapan, Borneo, 1945-07-01. The landing ship, infantry barge, HMAS Kanimbla, carrying 9th Battalion troops.
Melbourne, Vic. 1943-07-21. Sergeant Hilary Benn (right) testing her high speed aircraft camera in the cockpit of a RAAF Avro Anson aircraft.
Darwin, Northern territory, 1943-03-15. Naval personnel direct a hose on to a blazing oil tank set on fire during a japanese air raid.
Holding a parasol and notebook, Matron (Margaret) Grace Wilson "does a round".
Australian Second World War poster depicts a man's hands holding photograph of three smiling soldiers.
A member of the 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment (7ALH) having a bath in the desert
A photographer in the photographic dark room at the Australian War Records Section, trimming prints.
Three unidentified 7th Battalion men standing at a bomb stop at the old Turkish firing line in Lone Pine.
Studio portrait of 1159 Private (Pte) George Beamish Swanton, 24th Battalion, of Werribee, Vic, with his wife Nellie and young baby, Joan Helen.
Australians of the 30th Battalion making their way along a street of burning ruins in Bapaume, the day of its occupation by our troops.
Informal portrait of Captain C E W Bean, Official War Correspondent, knee deep in mud in Gird trench, near Gueudecourt in France, winter,1916-1917.
Soldiers running to take shelter from a heavy shellburst at Glencorse Wood in the Ypres salient.
Supporting troops of the 1st Australian Division walking on a duckboard track near Hooge, in the Ypres Sector.
Australian infantry wounded at a First Aid Post near Zonnebeke Railway Station
Five Australians, members of a field artillery brigade, passing along a duckboard track over mud and water in the devastated Chateau Wood.
Members of the 1st Australian Infantry Battalion outside their billets in the Cavalry Barracks at Ypres.
Taking the votes of members of the 3rd Battalion on the second Conscription Referendum at Halinghen, near Samer.
Warfusee-Abancourt, France. Lieutenant Rupert Frederick Arding Downes MC addressing his Platoon from B Company, 29th Battalion.
A machine gun position established by the 54th Battalion during the morning of the attack through Peronne.
Bodies of American troops laid out in an American cemetery near the road leading to Gillemont Farm and Bony.
Chatelet. An outdoors informal group portrait of unidentified members of the 1st Australian Mechanical Transport Company.
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 1915. An Australian officer visiting a comrade's grave at Lancashire Landing Cemetery.
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. April 1915. Australian troops going into action across Plugge's Plateau after the landing on 25 April.
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. Australian troops relax inside a captured Turkish trench at Lone Pine.
301 Company, Australian Motor Transport Army Service Corps at the 17th Division Ammunition Park prior to departure for the Western Front, 11 July 1915.
301 Company, Australian Motor Transport Army Service Corps at the 17th Division Ammunition Park prior to departure for the Western Front, 11 July 1915.
Cairo, Egypt. c. 1915. A Cairo street scene with horse drawn carriages in the foreground
Portrait of 6082 Private (Pte) Miller Maffaking Fergusson, 27th Battalion, killed in action 5 May 1917
A group of women in a crowd are a study in expressions at the Anzac Buffet in Hyde Park where relations waited to welcome home their loved ones.
Sydney, New South Wales. c. 1916. Members of the police force attempting to hold back people waitng to see an AIF procession go by.
Mediterranean Sea. c. July 1943. A member of No. 450 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF holding his binoculars, prepares to check for any enemy craft.
Western Desert, North Africa. c. 1943. Flight Sergeant T. E. Dillon of Cootamundra, NSW, a wireless operator (left), passes a message to the pilot.
Flying from Mareeba, Qld. 1944-03-18. Close portside view of a CAC CA-13 Boomerang fighter aircraft
One of a set of photographs probably taken from a Japanese soldier after the allied landing at Balikpapan 1945-07.
Egypt, 1942-10-20. Victor George Costin sitting outside makeshift shelter.
Giza, Egypt, late 1914 early 1915. Bombardier Maxfield (left), Driver Rich, on the stone image and Gunner Shields of 7th FAB, Australian Field Artillery.
Giza, Egypt, early 1915. Sergeant R.D. Alcroft LEFT, Sergeant C.H. Galliott (centre) and the Sergeant Major of 3rd Brigade Austrlian Field Artillery, 7th Battery.
The first troopships carrying Australian and New Zealand soldiers, horses and supplies to the Great War, leaving Albany on 1 November 1914.
Members of the Australian Army Nursing Service, pictured on camels in front of the Sphinx and pyramids.
Major General H C H Robertson, GOC 6th Division, signing the surrender document marking the defeat of the Japanese.
Breighton, Yorkshire, England, 1943-03. Group photograph of No 460 Squadron RAAF, pictured on a Lancaster Bomber.
Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915. A view of Anzac Cove looking north toward New Zealand Point.
Amman, Palestine, 1918-09. Part of the large number of Turkish prisoners of war captured by the 2nd Australian Light Horse Brigade.
Tobruk, Libya. 1941-06. Gunner J W Croft of 8 battery, 2/3rd Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, hanging out his washing, kept low to avoid drawing enemy shellfire.
C. 1903. Hand tinted studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Leslie C. Maygar VC DSO.
King George's Sound, WA. 1914-12-31. Arrival of the Second Detachment of the Australian and New Zealand Imperial Expeditionary Forces.
QLD, 1943. An unidentified Australian soldier resting in a railway carriage of a troop train probably bound for Townsville.
Three "fit" workers at Shimo Sonkurai No 1 Camp, standing outside the camp hospital
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. c May 1915. Two soldiers of the Supply Depot, 1st Australian Division.
Framed, hand coloured photograph of 2367 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Hamilton Hollingsworth McLachlan, of Inverell, NSW.
A reverse-painted glass portrait depicting 664 Private (Pte) Frederick Clarke.
Original Australian War Records Section caption: "An Australian Light Horseman collecting anemones near Belah in Palestine".
Studio portrait of NFX125936 Sister Myrle Mary Eileen Moston AANS, 2/3 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur
A group portrait of unidentified Australian Boer War Veterans in Queen Street, Melbourne at their reunion march.
Informal framed portrait of 1981 Corporal (Cpl) Robert Edwards, 13th Field Artillery Brigade, of Woodbridge, Tas.
Studio portrait of 5452 Private (Pte) James Wright, 2nd Australian Divisional Traffic Control Detachment, of Lion Mill, WA, with his family
Informal portrait of Damien Parer boarding an aircraft. He is wearing a shirt with a patch on it that reads 'Accredited war correspondent'.
The journalist Iris Dexter standing under the starboard engine of a Douglas C-47 aircraft
Studio portrait of three soldiers of the 2/13th Battalion dressed in Bedouin sheiks costume taken in Cairo on New Years Eve.
Group portrait of 540 Sapper Arthur Findon Dunbar MM, 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company (in uniform with his arm resting on gate) and his family members gathered outside their house
Hand coloured, three panelled portrait of three brothers. All were killed in action on the Western Front during the First World War.
Studio portrait of an unidentified First World War soldier in Australian service uniform, including greatcoat and slouch hat.
A group of AIF soldiers standing on the deck of troopship HMAT Ajana (A31).
Group of five nurses waiting to board the troop transport HMAT Orsova (A67).
Sweetheart's rolled gold pendant which has a photograph in each side.REL27939