Showing 10046 items
matching 1939-1942
-
Orbost & District Historical Society
Photograph - Orbost Higher Elementary School students Forms C & D 1938/39, Neville Huon, 1938/39
This photograph is described as being of Forms C & D 1938 or 1939, Orbost Higher Elementary School with the names of the students written on the back of the photograph. records names of those who attended Orbost Higher Elementary School 1938/39A b/w photograph of boys and girls in uniform sitting and standing in front of a brick building. The photograph has been pasted onto a backing cardboard which is grey.On the back of the cardboard is a handwritten list of those people in the photograph. This has been scanned and can be read as a separate image on-line.education, orbost higher elementary school -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Audio Tape, Phil Sadler's talk to T & D Historical Society on internment of German/Australian civilians
Phil Sadler's talk to T & D Historical Society on internment of German/Australian civilians in 1939 and subsequent war experiences - two sides.Audio tape HG 60Phil Sadler Tatura Historical Societypaul sadler, german australian civilian internments -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Cato Lake diving platform
Diving Platform Cato Lake also showing Stawell Town Hall Clock in background. The Clock Tower was added to Town Hall in 1939.Photograph of diving tower in Cato Lake. One small photo and an enlarged photo. The Stawell town hall clock can be seen in the background.Diving Tower Cato Lake Stawell.stawell -
Bendigo Military Museum
Uniform - UNIFORM ARMY, C.1940’s
Uniform items issued to Quentin Clifford BINKS V245016 & VX114178 2nd AIF. Refer Cat No 1835 for his service history. The shirt was added to make up a display uniform..1) Jacket, Service Dress, khaki, winter with 2 x Australia shoulder badges, 2 x Rising Sun lapel badges, 4 x Lieut badges (two on each shoulder), 2 x Service Ribbons WW2, 4 x Colour patches two on each shoulder, 2 oval, purple with grey surround, 2 rectangular same colours, metal buttons, waist belt, 4 pockets. .2) Trousers, Service Dress, khaki, winter, plastic buttons, 3 pockets. .3) Shirt, polyester, light khaki, long sleeves, 2 pockets. .4) Tie, khaki with tie clip to fit shirt collar..1) “Wardop, my Tailors of Melbourne, Collingwood and Geelong, for all men’s wear” .2) Same as .1) but with in ink “Lieut BinksJuly 1942” .3) “A.G.C.F. 1981 D & D uniforms army, service dress winter -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Harold R. Hedditch, MLA, Mayor of Portland 1940-43, c. 1940
Portland Town CouncilFramed, black and white, head and shoulders photograph of Harold Hedditch, wearing dark suit, white shirt, spotted tie. White painted and decorated wooden frame (appears to be the period).Front: Bottom centre: Harold R. Hedditch, MLA Mayor of Portland, 1940-41, 1941-42, 1942-43 Back: Top centre: yellow sticker numbered 3096. -
Dandenong/Cranbourne RSL Sub Branch
Document (Item) - Certificate of Discharge
Australian Coat of Arms above: Australian Military Forces Certificate of Discharge. Certifying that VX 88067 of Private (A/Cpl) Gordon William MULCAHY was discharged on 8th October 1946. G. W. Mulcahy served in CMF from 15th Dec. 1941 to 28th Jul 1942. Then AIF from 29th Jul 1942 to 8 th Oct 1946. A total of 1759 days which included Active Service. -
RMIT GSBL Justice Smith Collection
Journal series, The Council of Law Reporting, The law reports : court of the Queen's [King's] Bench : Queen's [King's] Bench Division, 1866
Previous owners: T. H. Smith, T. W. SmithNo. of volumes: 294 Volume range: 1866-2014 (Years with 2 parts: 1891-1911, 1916-1919, 1921, 1924-1942, 1948-1972, 1990-1991) (Years with 3 parts: 1912-1915, 1920, 1922-1923) (2009-2014 unbound parts) Editors: Bulwer, J. R. (Vol. 1866-1886) Stone, A. P. (Vol. 1886-1894) Pollock, F. (Vol. 1895-1936) Topham, A. F. (Vol. 1936-1939) Williams, R. E. L. V. (Vol. 1940) Sutton, R. (Vol. 1941-1953) Colinvaux, R. P. (Vol. 1953- 1968) Lamb, J. F. (Vol. 1969) Ellis, C. J. (Vol. 1970-1995) Williams, R. (Vol. 1996-2007) Scowen, C. (Vol. 2008) Queen's Bench 1866-1900 & 1952 (Part 2)-2008 King's Bench 1901-1952 (Part 1)ISSN: 02641127law reports: digests: etc. -- great britain -
Brighton Historical Society
Dress, Wedding dress, circa 1939-40
This wedding dress was worn by two Brighton brides, sisters Floss and Vera McMinn, during the Second World War. The McMinn family moved to Brighton from Castlemaine around 1924, when the sisters were still children. Their father, Horace Henry McMinn, was a fruiterer and greengrocer who ran the Fruit Palace at 123 Church Street. Florence May "Floss" McMinn (1912-2007) married William Thomas Vivian on 3 February 1940 at the Brighton Church of Christ. Her sister Vera was her bridesmaid. Vera Olive McMinn (1918-2006) wore the same dress two years later when she married Geoffrey Walter Holmes on 15 August 1942 at Scotch College Chapel.Cream silk wedding dress with a long train. High neck and long sleeves. Yoke with horizontal pintucks and self-covered buttons. Side zip.wedding dress, 1940s, wartime bride, florence may mcminn, florence may vivian, vera olive mcminn, vera olive holmes -
Bendigo Military Museum
Card - CARDS, PLAYING WW2, 1939-40
Frederick Birkin No VX32484 enlisted in the 2nd AIF on 25.6.40 age 24 years. Attached to 2/22nd Batt known as “Lark Force” they were stationed in Rabaul awaiting a possible attack by the Japanese. The attack came in early 1942. Birkin was taken POW and his death was on 1.7.42. Numbers escaped, others were massacred at the TOL Plantation and many more of the total Force and civilians lost their lives on the Japanese prison ship “Montivedeo Maru” which was sunk by an American Submarine on 1.7.42. A small number survived this. The cards were all written on the back with name and number of men in Birkins unit prior to embarkation to Rabaul. All were traceable as to their fate or transfer to another unit prior to embarkation. Refer also 182.2, 183. Set of playing cards, red in colour, with 2 white figures sword fighting. Owned by Frederick Birkin.Cards have been written on reverse, in ink, by colleagues of Fred Birkin.documents, cards, personal effects, leisure activities -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Lester Neil Ingram with his Morris Ten Series II delivery van, c.1942
The van is a Morris Ten Series II which was manufactured 1935-1937. The numeral only Victorian Registration plate 112-984 was part of the sequence of numeral only plates issued 1910-1939. Lester Neil Ingram was born at Kew, 8 November 1911, the son of John and Ada (Key) Ingram of Research. According to Electoral Roll records, in 1903, John Ingram was a farmer at Lancefield, his wife Ada, a milliner. By 1906, John Ingram was a baker at Research and from about 1912, an orchardist. The family moved to Anglesea River sometime between 1937 and 1942. A sheet metal worker by trade, Lester had run the bakery business for 14 years, his father retired, and was working as a baker at Anglesea when he enlisted in the R.A.A.F. on 5 December 1941 at Melbourne. Previously he had worked as a baker at Research (1937). He undertook training as Aircrew at No. 4 Initial Training School at Victor Harbour, South Australia, followed by No. 1 Wireless Air Gunners School at Ballarat, Victoria, and No. 3 Bombing and Gunnery School, West Sale, Victoria. On October 15, 1942 Lester qualified as an Air Gunner, promoted to Sergeant, and was posted to 1 Embarkation Depot at Ascot Vale, Victoria, and attached to R.A.F. UK. Lester embarked from Australia December 2, 1942 and arrived at 11 Personnel Despatch and Reception Depot on January 13, 1943. On March 9 he was transferred to 10 Operational Training Unit, Group No. 91, Bomber Command, R.A.F. Lester’s service file reveals that on the evening of 22 April 1943, Lester was a member of the aircrew of Whitley V bomber, N.1374. The airframe had run 1,127 hours. A full moon was just rising. The flight was non-operational, its purpose a dual conversion on type mission flown by a student pilot with almost two hours completed at night on similar flights. They had just changed aircraft as their previous aircraft had become unserviceable. The pilot had accepted the aircraft, which was technically unserviceable as the NCO in charge of flight had not completed the inspection paperwork correctly. The aircraft had undergone a major engine repair the day before. The aircraft took off at 2348 hours from R.A.F. Abington. It was reported that the aircraft take-off was quite normal and after climbing to 800 feet it passed out of view of the ground observers. A few seconds later the aircraft crashed, and it was reported that the sound of the engines seemed to become desynchronised. The crash occurred one and a half miles northwest of Longworth, Berkshire and the aircraft destroyed by fire. It carried a crew of five. Lester is commemorated on the Eltham Roll of Honour Board, which was commissioned by the Eltham War Memorial Trust to be hung in the Eltham Infant Welfare Centre, part of complex of buildings that form the Eltham War Memorial. The Honour Roll is presently (2023) hanging in the Eltham Library Community Gallery space. Lester was remembered with the following notices published in The Argus newspaper, Saturday 22 April 1944, p2: INGRAM. —In treasured memories you are with me still. Sgt. Lester Neil Ingram, killed, aircraft accident, England, April 22, 1943. (Mother and father.) INGRAM. —In proud and ever loving memory of Lester, 410236, Sgt. L. N. Ingram, R.A.A.F., air crash England, April 22, 1943. —Per ardua ad astra. (Ellen Peake and family.) [“Per ardua ad astra” is a Latin phrase meaning “through adversity to the stars” or “through struggle to the stars” which was the motto of the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth air forces such as the Royal Australian Air Force.] And from his fiancé Ellen, in The Argus, Wednesday, 5 May 1943, p2: INGRAM. —On April 22 (result of aircraft accident near Lodgeworth Village, Berks, England), Sgt. Lester Neil Ingram, R.A.A.F., fiance of Ellen. -Treasured memories till we meet again. Lester is buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, United Kingdom, Grave 4. 1. 11. INGRAM, Flt. Sgt. LESTER NEIL, 410236. R.A.A.F. 22nd April 1943. Age 31. Son of John and Ada Ingram, of Anglesea, Victoria, Australia. He gave his life For freedom’s cause ◊ ◊ ◊ LEST WE FORGET “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.”On reverse "Lester Ingram"112-984 (victorian registration), lester neil ingram, morris ten series ii, bakery, delivery van, pam thoonen (nee ingram) collection -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Document (item) - Bristol Beaufort Production Information Booklet, Beaufort Torpedo Bomber Production in Australia
Possibly a report to the government or cabinet, submitted November 1942. Probably a photocopy. -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Sculpture - Sitting monkey
Item from an Italian POW held in Camp 13, 1942 to 1946A profile of a monkey sitting with its knees bent and arms resting on the knees Hand painted in brown with ochre face, red lips, ears and fingernails. Inscriptions in White 28-4-42 in front and PARINELLO N. on one side and PRISONER.OF.WAR on the other28-4-42, PARINELLO N., PRISONER OF WARitalian pow's, camp 13 murchison, hand made objects -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1940 c
Built Williamstown 1938, taken over by Navy 1942, renamed 'Stella'?Black and white photograph showing fishing boat Warreen, CSIRO research ship. Lifeboat across stern, six or seven men onboard. Dark coloured hull, white cabin. Lakes Entrance Victoriafishing industry, boats and boating, fish, jetties, waterways -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book, Victorian Municipal Directory, 1909 - 1940
Served as reference for Cr CRICHTONTwenty-eight volume set of Victorian Municipal Directories - 1909-1940 (1913,1915 and 1939 missing). Councillors, officers, Justices of cities listed year by year. Bound in navy blue, gold foil stamped with titling and Port Melbourne Councillor CRICHTON's name; years 1926 and 1932 stamped 'Mayor'local government, james peter crichton, mayors -
The Ed Muirhead Physics Museum
PhD Thesis (JC Bower), Some Expansion Chamber Experiments in Atomic Physics
PhD thesis of Dr John Crawford Bower, who undertook his MSc at the University of Melbourne before completing his doctorate at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1939. Bower was in the RAF Operational Research Group in World War II before returning to the University of Melbourne to become a physics lecturer after the war. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: CHANGES
Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 1999. Changes: this site was originally Smith's butcher shop in Victoria Street, Eaglehawk, owned by Jimmy Wild from 1924-1939. It was then run by Roy Shuttleworth. Later it became Allen's Pet Supplies. House on the right is now the sight of IGA supermarket.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Magazine (item) - Assorted Magazines See Description
-
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - B/W Photograph, Wesleyan Church, Blackburn
Used by donor in 'Blackburn - a picturesque history'Black & white photo of Wesleyan Church . Built in 1891 in George Street. Sold in 1939 and became dwelling. acquired by Blue Moon and demolished.|Originally there were two Wesleyan church groups, who at turn of century (1900) amalgamated to form one church. Page 67 De Costa book.wesleyan church george street blackburn, blue moon fruit co-operative ltd -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1945 c
The Hulk of the Baang Yarnda on the North Arm foreshore. (Note in album)Black and white photograph showing view from Kalimna cliff overlooking North Arm and township, Cunninghame Arm and sand dunes out to Bass Strait. Hulk of old Baang Yarnda moored in North Arm, towed there in 1939 and left to rot. Thick vegetation in foreground. Lakes Entrance Victoria.boats and boating, shipyard -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - Centenary Program, 01/06/1972
Black and White Booklet produced by the Golden Square Methodist Church 1972. Seven Pages of notes on the history of the Golden Square Methodist Church from 1872 to 1972. Photo on the front cover of the outside of the church. On the rear cover photos of the interior 1873, the changes in the balcony 1939 and the outside of the church in 1873.100 years history, detailed history, religion, lydia chancellor collection -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Letter - Letter to Town Clerk Ringwood
A letter dated 30 June 1939 to the Town Clerk Ringwood from E Thompson Ringwood East School Committee advising the Council that the culvert on footpath in Whitehorse Road is in a very bad state of repair. Also requesting that the footpatch be formed or continued along from the Burnt Bridge to the municipal boundary. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Financial record - Seventh Day Adventist Collection: Church Missionary Secretary's Record (Expenditure/Income), 1924
Seventh Day Adventist Collection: Church Missionary Secretary's Record (Expenditure/Income) 1924 - June 1939, Church Members Accounts 1924 - 1933, Club Record 1928-1934 - 134 pages, page numbers are hand-written at top right hand corners. - information is hand-written in inkbook, religion -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Book, Paul Collins, Burn-The Epic Story of Bushfire in Australia, 2006
The story of bushfires in AustraliaFront cover has a photograph of Sharon Guest and her daughter Patricia in the ruins of their Mt Macedon home, Ash Wednesday.non-fictionThe story of bushfires in Australiaforest fires, bush fires, australia, history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, VIETNAM, Lex McAuley, Contact: Australians in Vietnam, 1989
A pictorial history of servicemen & women during 1962 - 1972 whilst serving in South Vietnam. Lex McAuley, Author was born in 1939 in Innisfail, Queensland.Hard cardboard cover, khaki buckram with orange fly leaf. Front dust cover has a soldier carrying equipment, soldier on back has a rifle pointing straight upwards. 147 pages with cut edges & black print. Illustrated with black & white photos & maps. books-military-history, photography, illustrations, vietnam -
Bendigo Military Museum
Weapon - CATAPULT, U.S, Saunders Falcon, c,WWII
Catapult (Saunders Falcon) brand. Used by U S Rangers in WWII. Item held by J McAndrew 2571269 Royal Engineers 1939 - 45 .1) Catapult, black steel, silver aluminium, bakelite handle, rubber band. .2) 12 metal pallets in plastic lid.arms, metalcraft - aluminium -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph - Digital image, David Medhurst [senior], 1890c
David Medhurst (1855-1939) who moved to Greensborough around 1898 and ran a store in Grimshaw Street. He also wrote for the local paper. Digital copy of black and white studio photograph.david medhurst -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph - Digital image, David Medhurst 2, 1880c
David Medhurst (1855-1939) who moved to Greensborough around 1898 and ran a store in Grimshaw Street. He also wrote for the local paper. Digital copy of black and white studio photograph.david medhurst -
Clunes Museum
Document - RECEIPT, LAMSON PARAGON LIMITED
RECEIPT FOR GROCERY SUPPLIES BOUGHT BY MRS. TREMBATH FROM MR. STAN THOMAS, GENERAL MERCHANT, FRASER STREET, CLUNES ON 18 DECEMBER 1939.RECEIPT FOR GROCERY SUPPLIES.local history, commerce, receipt, trembath, perry -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Uniform - 002393, Army Collars
These detachable collars are most likely Australian Army issue from the World War Two era (1939-1945). They are made to be used with a khaki shirt. These collars have no known local provenance but are retained as examples of the detachable collars used by Australian Army personnel in the early to mid 20th century. These three men’s collars are made of cotton and are khaki in colour. They have three button holes on the straight neck edge, one at each end and one in the middle. australian army uniforms, warrnambool, history of warrnambool -
Clunes Museum
Document - RATION BOOK
RATION TICKETS FOR PETROL ISSUED DURING 1939-1945 WAR. COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT ISSUED THESE DURING THE WAR WHEN PEROL WAS SCARCE FOR PRIVATE CITIZENS1. COLLECTION OF FOUR MOTOR RATION TICKETS GLUED ONTO CARDBOARD 2. McDOUGAL & CHISHOLM, CASH DRAWERS, BRIDGE STREET BALLARAT OFFERED THESE TICKETS TO CUSTOMERS TO COLLECT TO GAIN DISCOUNT, THREE HUNDRED TICKETS WOULD REDEEM GOODS TO THE VALUE OF SEVEN & SIX PENCE FREE OF CHANGE [75CENTS]local history, document, ticket, ww2 memorabilia