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Waverley RSL Sub Branch
Soldiers Record Book J Bagnal, Soldiers Record of Service Book
Carried by every Australian Solder WWIIPaper booklet with plasticised coverSoldiers Record of Service Bookrecord book booklet -
Bendigo Military Museum
Newspaper - A.I.F NEWSPAPER, C.1939 - 45
Produced for troops in the AIF during WWIIEight sheets of paper that when folded provide sixteen pages of news. Black ink. There are photos, adverts, war news, cartoon and maps. .1 Dated Sat 26 September 1942, Issue 133 .2 Dated Sat 30 October 1942, Issue 134 .3 Dated Sat 17 October 1942, Issue 136 .4 Dated Sat 7 November 1942, Issue 139 .5 Dated Sat 14 November 1942, Issue 140 .6 Dated Sat 21 November 1942, Issue 141 .7 Dated Sat 5 December 1942, Issue 143 .8 Dated Sat 12 December 1942, Issue 144 .9 Dated Fri 25 December 1942, Issue 146 - This issue has coloured front and rear page .1, .2, .3, .4, .5, .6, .7, .8, .9 - Mrs H.M. MacCallum 6 Queen Street Bendigo Victoria .4 additional text Sender VX41168 H. M MacCallumnewspapers, aif news ww2 -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Manual - Course notes for B-24 Liberator aircraft ground crew, Queen City Printers Pty Ltd, Fitters II.A Carpenter, riggers, flight riggers, Course notes, 1942
Issued to RAAF ground crew in WWII.Original WWII manualLoose leaf manual in two-ring binder. Pale green with dark green spine.R.A.A.F. serial number 19218. Issue 4 - 1942raaf, manual, riggers, carpenters, engineering school -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Norden M9 Bombsight, Norden Bombsight Company, 1945
Used in Pacific War during WWIIBlack covered Electro Mechanical analogue computer with small indicator dials with two divisional connected boxes. Mounts on Minneapolis Honeywell 'stabilizer' unit.Minneapolis Type G1029 A3CAZ HZ 26 Volts DC CV. Serial No. C-24825 B3430 -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Instructors' Handbook of Advanced Flying Training, May 1943
Used by pilot instructors during WWII.Instructors Handbook of Advanced Flying Training issued by Air Ministry May 1943. Air Publication 1732b, 1st Edition, May 1943.a22.08, frecker -
Dandenong/Cranbourne RSL Sub Branch
Weapon - Scabbard WWII
WWII Donated by Mr Peter CottonMetal scabbard to fit sword ( refer item 0063.1) protruding metal protector at base and metal ring near top of scabbard. Has at top a connecter for locking clip on the sword.number 116410 stamped on metal protecter at base. -
Dandenong/Cranbourne RSL Sub Branch
Australian Commonwealth Military Force Badge, Unknown
Possibly WWI and WWII Historical significanceAustralian Commonwealth Military Forces hat badge. Australian Commonwealth Military Forces. -
Dandenong/Cranbourne RSL Sub Branch
Tin, The Curran Corporation
Possibly used in WWII or Vietnam campaigns?Khaki coloured tin of rifle cleaning oil.Shake well before using. P.O. No. (28.024) 44 - 40700.2 -
Bendigo Military Museum
Award - MEDAL SET, post 1945
Medals awarded to Cyril John JOHNSON VX36298 died as a POW. Refer Cat No 3144 for his service history.Set of (5) WWII medals court mounted re C J JOHNSON. 1. 1939 - 1945 Star 2. Pacific Star 3. Defence Medal 4. War Medal1939 - 1945 5. Aust Service Medal 1939 - 1945Engraved VX36298 C J JOHNSON.medals, military, history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPHS, RAAF WW2, c.WWII
.1) Arthur John Gorsuch Hando No 116921 enlisted in the RAAF on 19.7.1942 age 18 years. At discharge on 12.4.1946 he held the rank of LAC in No 6 Transport Movement Office RAAF. .2) - .5) Photographs reflect service life in Darwin during World War II..1) Portrait of WWII Airmen - copy of original. .2) Group photograph of a football team - copy of original. .3) Group sitting on truck - copy of original. .4) x 2 Trucks - copy of original. .5) Group of 3 - copy of original..1) ARTHUR HANDO, Air Force 2nd World War. .2) A HANDO 4th from top, 5 RC Air Force footy team. .3) 2nd World War, Darwin, ARTHUR J HANDO. Pop 1st one sitting on car, no hat. .5) A HANDO.photography-photographs, military history- army - airforce, raaf -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Money Belt, c. 1942
This money belt was issued to Dr W.R. Angus when he served in the Army 1942-1945 as a medical officer at Ballarat, Victoria, and Bonegilla, N.S.W.. (Surgeon Captain A.A.M.C., 108 A.G.H., and 106 A.G.H., Captain A.A.M.C. retired list.) The belt was donated to Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village by the family of Doctor William Roy Angus, Surgeon and Oculist. It is part of the “W.R. Angus Collection” that includes historical medical equipment, surgical instruments and material once belonging to Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Thomas Francis Ryan, (both of Nhill, Victoria) as well as Dr Angus’ own belongings. The Collection’s history spans the medical practices of the two Doctors Ryan, from 1885-1926 plus that of Dr Angus, up until 1969. ABOUT THE “W.R.ANGUS COLLECTION” Doctor William Roy Angus M.B., B.S., Adel., 1923, F.R.C.S. Edin.,1928 (also known as Dr Roy Angus) was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria in 1901 and lived until 1970. He qualified as a doctor in 1923 at University of Adelaide, was Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1924 and for a period was house surgeon to Sir (then Mr.) Henry Simpson Newland. Dr Angus was briefly an Assistant to Dr Riddell of Kapunda, then commenced private practice at Curramulka, Yorke Peninsula, SA, where he was physician, surgeon and chemist. In 1926, he was appointed as new Medical Assistant to Dr Thomas Francis Ryan (T.F. Ryan, or Tom), in Nhill, Victoria, where his experiences included radiology and pharmacy. In 1927 he was Acting House Surgeon in Dr Tom Ryan’s absence. Dr Angus had become engaged to Gladys Forsyth and they decided he further his studies overseas in the UK in 1927. He studied at London University College Hospital and at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and in 1928, was awarded FRCS (Fellow from the Royal College of Surgeons), Edinburgh. He worked his passage back to Australia as a Ship’s Surgeon on the on the Australian Commonwealth Line’s T.S.S. Largs Bay. Dr Angus married Gladys in 1929, in Ballarat. (They went on to have one son (Graham 1932, born in SA) and two daughters (Helen (died 12/07/1996) and Berenice (Berry), both born at Mira, Nhill ) According to Berry, her mother Gladys made a lot of their clothes. She was very talented and did some lovely embroidery including lingerie for her trousseau and beautifully handmade baby clothes. Dr Angus was a ‘flying doctor’ for the A.I.M. (Australian Inland Ministry) Aerial Medical Service in 1928 . Its first station was in the remote town of Oodnadatta, where Dr Angus was stationed. He was locum tenens there on North-South Railway at 21 Mile Camp. He took up this ‘flying doctor’ position in response to a call from Dr John Flynn; the organisation was later known as the Flying Doctor Service, then the Royal Flying Doctor Service. A lot of his work during this time involved dental surgery also. Between 1928-1932 he was surgeon at the Curramulka Hospital, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. In 1933 Dr Angus returned to Nhill and purchased a share of the Nelson Street practice and Mira hospital (a 2 bed ward at the Nelson Street Practice) from Dr Les Middleton one of the Middleton Brothers, the current owners of what previously once Dr Tom Ryan’s practice. Dr Tom and his brother had worked as surgeons included eye surgery. Dr Tom Ryan performed many of his operations in the Mira private hospital on his premises. He had been House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1902-1926. Dr Tom Ryan had one of the only two pieces of radiology equipment in Victoria during his practicing years – The Royal Melbourne Hospital had the other one. Over the years Dr Tom Ryan had gradually set up what was effectively a training school for country general-practitioner-surgeons. Each patient was carefully examined, including using the X-ray machine, and any surgery was discussed and planned with Dr Ryan’s assistants several days in advance. Dr Angus gained experience in using the X-ray machine there during his time as assistant to Dr Ryan. When Dr Angus bought into the Nelson Street premises in Nhill he was also appointed as the Nhill Hospital’s Honorary House Surgeon 1933-1938. His practitioner’s plate from his Nhill surgery is now mounted on the doorway to the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Warrnambool. When Dr Angus took up practice in the Dr Edward and Dr Tom Ryan’s old premises he obtained their extensive collection of historical medical equipment and materials spanning 1884-1926. A large part of this collection is now on display at the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool. In 1939 Dr Angus and his family moved to Warrnambool where he purchased “Birchwood,” the 1852 home and medical practice of Dr John Hunter Henderson, at 214 Koroit Street. (This property was sold in1965 to the State Government and is now the site of the Warrnambool Police Station. and an ALDI sore is on the land that was once their tennis court). The Angus family was able to afford gardeners, cooks and maids; their home was a popular place for visiting dignitaries to stay whilst visiting Warrnambool. Dr Angus had his own silk worm farm at home in a Mulberry tree. His young daughter used his centrifuge for spinning the silk. Dr Angus was appointed on a part-time basis as Port Medical Officer (Health Officer) in Warrnambool and held this position until the 1940’s when the government no longer required the service of a Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool; he was thus Warrnambool’s last serving Port Medical Officer. (Masters of immigrant ships arriving in port reported incidents of diseases, illness and death and the Port Medical Officer made a decision on whether the ship required Quarantine and for how long, in this way preventing contagious illness from spreading from new immigrants to the residents already in the colony.) Dr Angus was a member of the Australian Medical Association, for 35 years and surgeon at the Warrnambool Base Hospital 1939-1942, He served as a Surgeon Captain during WWII1942-45, in Ballarat, Victoria, and in Bonegilla, N.S.W., completing his service just before the end of the war due to suffering from a heart attack. During his convalescence he carved an intricate and ‘most artistic’ chess set from the material that dentures were made from. He then studied ophthalmology at the Royal Melbourne Eye and Ear Hospital and created cosmetically superior artificial eyes by pioneering using the intrascleral cartilage. Angus received accolades from the Ophthalmological Society of Australasia for this work. He returned to Warrnambool to commence practice as an ophthalmologist, pioneering in artificial eye improvements. He was Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist to Warrnambool Base Hospital for 31 years. He made monthly visits to Portland as a visiting surgeon, to perform eye surgery. He represented the Victorian South-West subdivision of the Australian Medical Association as its secretary between 1949 and 1956 and as chairman from 1956 to 1958. In 1968 Dr Angus was elected member of Spain’s Barraquer Institute of Barcelona after his research work in Intrasclearal cartilage grafting, becoming one of the few Australian ophthalmologists to receive this honour, and in the following year presented his final paper on Living Intrasclearal Cartilage Implants at the Inaugural Meeting of the Australian College of Ophthalmologists in Melbourne In his personal life Dr Angus was a Presbyterian and treated Sunday as a Sabbath, a day of rest. He would visit 3 or 4 country patients on a Sunday, taking his children along ‘for the ride’ and to visit with him. Sunday evenings he would play the pianola and sing Scottish songs to his family. One of Dr Angus’ patients was Margaret MacKenzie, author of a book on local shipwrecks that she’d seen as an eye witness from the late 1880’s in Peterborough, Victoria. In the early 1950’s Dr Angus, painted a picture of a shipwreck for the cover jacket of Margaret’s book, Shipwrecks and More Shipwrecks. She was blind in later life and her daughter wrote the actual book for her. Dr Angus and his wife Gladys were very involved in Warrnambool’s society with a strong interest in civic affairs. He had an interest in people and the community They were both involved in the creation of Flagstaff Hill, including the layout of the gardens. After his death (28th March 1970) his family requested his practitioner’s plate, medical instruments and some personal belongings be displayed in the Port Medical Office surgery at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, and be called the “W. R. Angus Collection”. The W.R. Angus Collection is significant for still being located at the site it is connected with, Doctor Angus being the last Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool. The collection of medical instruments and other equipment is culturally significant, being an historical example of medicine from late 19th to mid-20th century. Dr Angus assisted Dr Tom Ryan, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and in ocular surgery. The collection of Army objects is an example of items issued to Doctors and Surgeons in the Medical Services of the Australian Army in World War 2. Brown leather money belt, genuine calf, lined, 4 pouches with stud closure flaps included. Issued to W.R. Angus in WWII and part of the W.R. Angus Collection. Gold embossed label. Hand written inscription with name and serial number. Gold embossed “GENUINE CALF” under silver coloured buckle. Hand written inside of belt “W.R. ANGUS / 61-3 9803 5228”flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, dr w r angus, dr ryan, military money belt, surgeon captain, royal australian army, military service australian army, wwii uniform, world war 2 -
Old School House Museum
Photograph, 1940-1945
During WWII the local boys formed a salvage band, they would go around town collecting papers and bottles and would return them for a deposit that would then be donated to the war fund that helped families in need who had people serving in the war -
Waverley RSL Sub Branch
Army Motor Cycle Lisence
issued to A Beale a dispatch rider during WWIIPaper lisence in plastic mountA.Bealemilitary, dispatch riderclisence -
Waverley RSL Sub Branch
Webbing Field Pack
Used as field equipment AIF WWI WWIIWebbing Feild pack 1908 pattern with brass buckles and webbing straps part of "pack and basic pouches -
Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre
Service records WT Rodda Tarranyurk
WT Rodda served in the RAAF during WWIIenvelope with collection of service records not originalservice records -
Bendigo Military Museum
Accessory - BADGES, UNIFORM, 2) c.1939-45
Items relate to the HEWSTON Collection WWI & WWII..1) Cloth badge, outer off white colour oval with central oval shape purple sewn on. .2) Cloth shoulder lapel badge, khaki, with Australia sewn on in white.uniforms - badges, military history - army -
Bendigo Military Museum
Award - SERVICE RIBBONS WW2, c.1944-45
Item relates to HEWSTON Collection WWI & WWIISet of two Service Ribbons mounted on brass plate representing; 1. 1939-45 Star 2. Pacific Starnumismatics, military history, service ribbons -
Bendigo Military Museum
Uniform - BUTTONS, Possible WW2 era
Items relate to HEWSTON Collection WWI & WWII.1) Button, metal, Crown over map of Australia. Australian Military Forces around edge. .2) Button, metal, gold colour with anchor & flower arrangement.costume accessories - haberdashery, uniforms, military history, buttons -
Montmorency/Eltham RSL Sub Branch
Uniform - Helmet, Steel, US M1
U.S. M1 Steel Helmet post WWIISteel with green painted surface of sand & paint with welded rim. Two cotton webbing chin straps with metal bucklesOn front of helmet reads SMILEYu.s. m1, steel helmet -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Dutch Air Force Officer's Cap, Early 1939
Worn by Wilhelmius (Bill) Bakker during WWII.Mr Bakker was in the Dutch Air Force and was stationed at Darwin working with the RAAF. Dutch Air Force Officer's Capbakker collection, a23.00 -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
RAAF Dress Uniform, C. 1950
Worn in WWII as Dress Uniform on Formal Occasions.RAAF Dress Uniform worn on formal occasions by Flight Sergeant Charles Cull. -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Jaeger Disk Speed Indicator, Jaeger, Tachometer, 1944
Was used with Norden Bombsights on aircraft during WWII.Tachometer for calibrating Norden Bombsight Rate Motor in a black box.B.S. Mk XV Disk Speed Indicator Jaegera3 -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document - Statement of Service, Australian Government, Department of Defence, Edward Ernest Arrowsmith, 18 August 2020
WWII Service ArrowsmithDepartment of Defence, Statement of Service of Edward Ernest Arrowsmith, 2 pgsnon-fictionWWII Service Arrowsmithworld war two 1939-1945, royal australian air force (raaf), arrowsmith ted -
Dandenong/Cranbourne RSL Sub Branch
Decorative object - Cartridge case, 1941
WWII Cartridge shell made into trench artBronze polished cartridge case.(Trench Art made by William Curtis).Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Rising Sun badge on the side. Markings on the base of the case are 100, MF, 1941, 2PR No 2 and CF.t -
Ballarat RSL Sub-Branch Inc.
Weapon - Machete & Leather Scabbard, c. 1940s
A type of machete used by Gurkhas during WWIIGurkha's machete with leather scabbard that has two smaller bladesweapons, ballarat rsl, ballarat, kukri -
Clayton RSL Sub Branch
hard cover non-fiction book, D-Day From The Normandy Beaches to the Liberation of France, 1994
Known as the start of the end of WWII, D-Dayforeward by Viscount Montgomery of Alamein CBEhard cover non fiction bookSticker with personal contact details of P.Cooper -
Clayton RSL Sub Branch
soft cover non-fiction book, World War II, 2004
Snapshot of battles during WWII with photos and factsFactual look at the start and progression of World War II -
The 5th/6th Battalion Royal Victoria Regiment Historical Collection
Weapon - INNOC: .303 Lee Enfield 1942
Weapon used by Allied forces during WWII.303 Lee Enfield 1942 Lithgow MK II fixed onto the Wooden board and bolted onto the wall.303 Lee Enfield 1942 Lithgow MK II Ser No. D79508 -
Dandenong/Cranbourne RSL Sub Branch
Equipment - Japanese Officer Binoculars, c.1938- 1944
These Binoculars appear to belong to a Japanese Officer in WWII.Black small binoculars with brown leather strap"6X9.3" on right hand side of binocularsNo 89385 J.ES"japanese, binoculars ww11 -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPHS
Photos belonging to Albert Edward Corrie, VX47191, WO Class II, 6th Division Postal Unit .1 Photograph - card, sepia photo of six soldiers .2 Photograph - card, sepia photo of six men .3 Photograph - card, black & white, sea plane, two figures on beach .4 Photograph - card, black & white, six men, bicycle, mail bags.1 Nil .2 "THESE SNAPS WERE TAKEN ON THE BEACH AT GAZA WHERE WE WERE SWIMMING ONE DAY. ALBERT" .3 "SEA PLANE OVER GAZE BEACH" .4 'ERN HERRIDGE, HENRY SCHABLON, PEDLAR PALMER, SNOW MULLINS, FRANKIE KEEGAN & MYSELF"wwii, photographs