Of love and war
Letters and longing
For Australians war has meant years of separation, often across vast distances. These sections of the exhibition consider the pressures that couples were placed under due to distance and the tensions associated with war. It looks at methods of communication from the exchange of gifts, to letters and telegrams, to recorded messages and e-mail. These sections also consider how those serving and those who remained behind coped with loneliness and loss.
Farewell and fears
The departure of the Australian contingent for the Sudan by Arthur Collingridge.
Remember me
Cased Photograph of White family : Lieutenant Colonel C B B White, Chief of Staff, AIF.
Photo in wooden frame of family of Lieutenant Colonel A E Coates, 2/10 Australian General Hospital. REL/18564.
Sweethearts
Royal Australian Air Force sweetheart brooch : Flying Officer J R Vowles, 44 Squadron RAF.
Informal Portrait of 3787607 Private (Pte) Colin Joseph Whiston in his summer polyester uniform.
Pair of Australia shoulder titles : Private C J Whiston, 6 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment .
Across the miles
Gifts
Female Relatives' Badge with 29th Battalion colour patch brooch: Mrs Phoebe Hood. REL/02893.002.
Embroidered handkerchief : Private E D Hood, 29 Battalion, AIF. REL/02896.002.
Orcades sailor doll : Private J C Arney, 2/3 Battalion, AIF. REL34431.001
Palestinian Customs Declaration for doll : Private J C Arney, 2/3 Battalion, AIF. REL34431.002.
Vietnamese good luck pendant : Lance Corporal T W J Lupton, 1 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment .REL32702.
Wire and seed bracelet : Private C A Hollingsworth, 37 Battalion AIF . REL/04744.001.
Wire bracelet : Private C A Hollingsworth, 37 Battalion AIF. REL/04744.002.
Southern cross pendant : Warrant Officer II J R Keen, 110 Brigade Workshop, AIF . REL34807.
Letters
Embroidered silk postcard made in France during the First World War. RC06030.
Embroidered silk postcard made in France during the First World War. SC00202 .
Embroidered silk postcard made in France during the First World War. SC01358.
Lieutenant Diane Lawrence, a member of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), tapes a letter home. COM/69/0476/VN .
Illustrated poem painted on khaki uniform scrap : Lance Corporal E C Barnes, Royal Army Medical Corps. REL34553.
Informal portrait of SX21753 Sergeant (Sgt) Colin Douglas Simper and his wife Irene on their wedding day. P04215.001.
408811 Pilot Officer (later Flying Officer) Ralph Reginald James arm in arm with his wife Beryl.
Captive hearts
Loss and loneliness
Loneliness
Portrait of 407666 Flight Lieutenant R. B. Cowper DFC, Adelaide, SA, Pilot with No. 456 (Mosquito) Squadron RAAF.
Souvenir des tranchèes de CHAMPAGNE 1914 - 1915 [Souvenir of the trenches of Champagne, 1914 - 1915]
Girls, girls, girls
A member of the Australian Flying Corps, believed to be 327 Private Herbert Walter Tee, reclining in a hammock in his area of a dug out.
Nadzab, new guinea. C. 1944-02. A transport driver, leading aircraftman W. Clarke, Moss Vale, NSW, with nose art of Jan Rhynd, "adopted" tivoli girl performer, which he painted on the engine cowling of a Vultee Vengeance dive bomber aircraft of no. 24 squadron RAAF between trips.OG0930.
Kittyhawk aircraft with nose art emblem "watch mC. 1945-06. Nose art on a Handley Page Halifax B mark III Aircraft, 'Jane' (NO. MZ913), of No. 462 quadron RAAF. P01523.032.y form!", nickname lucky 13, of no. 78 squadron raaf. T.OG1553.
C. 1945-06. Nose art on a Handley Page Halifax B mark III Aircraft, 'Jane' (NO. MZ913), of No. 462 Squadron RAAF. P01523.032.
Kitbag decorated with a pin-up girl : Signaller J C Lynam, BCOF. REL38011.
Loss
Studio portrait of three members of the 2/29th Battalion. Left to right: VX35493 Private (Pte) Sydney Riley, presumed dead, Malaya, 22 January 1942; VX36974 Pte Robert (Bob) G. Towers, died of illness as a prisoner of war (POW) in Japan, 8 November 1943; and VX36789 Pte Allan W. Clinch, presumed dead, Malaya, 10 February 1942.
Small silver brooch made from the Australian coat of arms emblem cut out from the centre of an Australian florin. REL27148.001.
Silver pendant, suspended from a short length of chain, cut from the outer part of an Australian florin. REL27148.002.
Horseshoe charm wrapped in white satin ribbon with three loops to wear around the wrist. A sprig of white wax and cotton flowers is attached with a bow to the lower right side. REL32406.
Studio portrait of VX57043 Gunner (Gnr) Alan William Glover, in uniform, and his bride Violet May Glover on their wedding day.
Studio portrait of Alan and Raelene Graham (nee Clark) taken on the day of their wedding, probably in Port Augusta, in 1965. P06312.001.
Studio portrait of 3765 Private (Pte) John Edmund (Jack) Buttsworth, 30th Battalion, of Bourke, NSW. P04235.001.
Horizontal leaf shaped silver brooch. Attached across the centre of the brooch is a rose gold scroll impressed with the word 'YPRES'. There is a pin fastening on the back of the brooch.
Souvenir silver plated notebook : Sergeant J E Buttsworth, 30 Battalion, AIF. REL31863.
