Showing 34237 items matching "15/8/1945"
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Bendigo Military Museum
Banner - BANNER, MOUNTED
Banner- soft vinyl canvas, printed in white, black and grey colours. Mounted on two hanging poles, timber with cream coloured plastic coating ornamental knobs on each end with black cord hanger “34 Brigade/ Provost/ Coy/ Hird/ Japan 1945-1952banner, japan, post ww2 -
Bendigo Military Museum
Newspaper - NEWSPAPER, 1945, Guinea Gold, 16.6.1945
Some items include, B 29 raids over Osaka, General Blamey in Bougainville, British concessions to India, post war housing plan, Soviet Govt announces trial of Polish leaders, the races, civilian news.Newspaper, Guinea Gold, yellowed, 4 pages, all printing in Black, no illustrations or photos.ON Front, “Vol 3 No 209 - Sat June 16 1945”guinea gold, newspapers, 1945 -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Plaque - Copper plaque, c1945
The Glen Iris Presbyterian Church Men's Club was formed in February 1940. It had an annual club dinner and weekend retreats. Copper plaque with a pressed design, text and image of a burning bush. There are 12 holes around the border."GLEN IRIS PRESBYTERIAN MENS CLUB" Scratched on the back: "1945"glen iris presbyterian church, presbyterian men's club -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald
Newspaper announcing Japan Capitulates and plans for surrender following cease fire in the Pacific .Newspaper consisting of 16 pages of large cream paper folded in half with black printing and imagesThe Sydney Morning Herald dated Thursday August 16 1945ww2, japanese surrender, pacific -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Book, BOOK: Victory - The sixth Volume of Winston Churchill's War Speeches
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Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Flag - Pennant, RAAF, Unknown
Small triangular banner with small badge attached Dark blue with coat of arms in gold and lettering in light blueBadge - 22 RSU, RAAF 1943-1945 Pennant- RAAFpennant, raaf -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Bottle - Medical
This medical / hospital equipment was used in the Tawonga District General Hospital which was built in the 1950's specifically for the increase in population due to the Kiewa Hydro Scheme.Historical: Shows the development of hospital equipment. Provenance: Used in the Tawonga District General Hospital - possibly in the Maternity Ward - which was remote and therefore required good equipment. Good condition and good interpretation capacity. Clear glass bottle used for feeding baby's formula. It has a hexagonal base. The front has an embossed gauge with horizontal lines marking ounces from 8 at the top. On the opposite face is embossing and to the left of that another face also embossed. The sides are flat and straight tapering to form a round shape to a very short neck. The opening has a thick lip (for a teat).Front: '8 oz' with horizontal lines beside and between 7.6.5.4.3.2.1 Left face: 'Endura'. opposite (to front) face:' Firetex'baby's feeding bottle, baby's formula, hospital, tawonga district hospital maternity ward -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Murray Views, Central Park & Sundial in Stawell c1950 -- Postcard, C. 1950
Sister of Donor visited Stawell in the 1950's when she purchased these Murray Views cards. These cads were produced for sale to touristsSet of 8 Murray Views Postcards No. 1 to 8 C. 1950'sMurray Views No 1 Central Park and Sundial Stawell Victourism postcards -
Doncaster RSL Sub Branch
Diary
Diary covers Ivan's time at Truscott airfield in North-Western Australia June 1944 - 45 and covers the construction of the airfield and the first operationsTruscott airfield was one of the most Northerly and therefore the nearest to the fighting at that timeDiary written by sub-branch member Ronald Ivan Smith RAAF. 19 A4 pages enclosed in standard buff coloured file 320 x 240 mm Ivan Smith served in the RAAF from early 1942 to August/September 1945 service number 418708 and the diary covers the period June 1944 to June 1945 -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
SECV including Annual Reports 1940s - 1970s
SECV built KHES15 thick Booklets mostly Foolscap bound by staples 2 Royal Commission on Electricity Supply Answers to set of questions April 1947 1 SECV black hard cover book 'Acts' 1958 1 'SEC History in the Making - Golden Jubilee Photo feature - thin 8 page booklet.state electricity commission of victoria -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Newspaper, The Ballarat Courier, "Unexplained rise injuries, deaths", Aug. 2010
Newspaper clipping from The Courier, 24/8/2010, titled "Unexplained rise injuries, deaths", reporting on a report from The Alfred Hospital, includes 15 deaths between 2000 and 2008. Quotes Dr Mitra of the Alfred Hospital. Has a photo of trams out the front of the City Baths in Swanston St.trams, tramways, yarra trams, safety, alfred hospital -
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Uniform - Beret
This style of beret with Rising Sun badge was worn by CMR armoured regiments until 1955 when the badge was replaced by silver regimental badges. The 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles was raised as a regiment of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps on 1 May 1948 with Headquarters in Melbourne and squadrons in Sale, Benalla/Wangaratta and Albury. In 1955 Regimental Headquarters moved to Wangaratta and a second squadron was located at Albury. The Sale squadron transferred to 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse. In 1977 8/13 VMR Regiment was reduced to an independent squadron A Squadron 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles and in 1991 was linked with 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse forming the VMR Squadron of that regiment.Representative of headdress worn by Citizen Military Forces soldiers in nearly 1950s.Black felt beret with silver Rising Sun hat badge as worn by 8/13 Victorian Mounted Rifles 1950 - 1954.headwear, beret, badge, rising sun, armour -
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Photograph
Centurion tank was able to ford a water obstacle of 1.4 metres but bank collapse of eroded hole could cause drowning.The 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles was raised as a regiment of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps on 1 May 1948 with Headquarters in Melbourne and squadrons in Sale, Benalla/Wangaratta and Albury. In 1955 Regimental Headquarters moved to Wangaratta and a second squadron was located at Albury. The Sale squadron transferred to 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse. In 1977 8/13 VMR Regiment was reduced to an independent squadron A Squadron 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles and in 1991 was linked with 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse forming the VMR Squadron of that regiment.Black and white photograph of ' drowned' Centurion tank during 8/13 Victorian Mounted Rifles annual exercise at Puckapunyal 1969." Crew Commander Capt Skeen, Driver Tpr Park, Gunner CFpl J Clay, Loader/ Operator l/Cpl Froulins"centurion, skeen r captain -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Air Brake Calculations", 1947
File looks at the braking capacity of single truck trams in Geelong. Includes calculations, notes, and drawings. Dated August 1947, includes notes on testing of tramcars following a rear on-collision with tram No. 8 on 13/4/1945. See item 9889 for a Ballarat report.Yields information about the testing of braking systems in Geelong.administrative Record - papers within a Vertilok folder file containing hand written and typed foolscap, quarto and small loose sheets, calculations and notes.tramways, tramcars, secv, braking, testing, geelong, brake testing, reports, tramcar brakes -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Certificate - Certificate of Appreciation, 2/24 Australian Infantry Battalion Association, 2013
Certificate of Appreciation presented at the annual reunion on 8 November 2013 to Wangaratta RSL in recognition of their continued support for 2/24 AIF Battalion Association.Cream certificate with black and purple type with two colour symbols above and two signatures below.The 2/24 Australian Infantry Battalion Association (Inc) "Wangaratta's Own" Certificate of Appreciation presented to Wangaratta RSL In recognition of their continued support for 2/24 AIF Battalion Association Wangaratta Reunion 8 November 20132/24 australian infantry battalion, wangaratta rsl, certificate of appreciation -
Ambulance Victoria Museum
Book, expenditure, Shepparton District Ambulance Service, September 1945 to September 1954, 1945
expenditure, Shepparton District Ambulance Service, September 1945 to September 1954Red hard bound book. Expenditure -
Rutherglen RSL Sub-Branch
Medal - War Medal 1939-1945, August 1945
WAR Service Medal 1939-1945 with engraving to 410912 OLCORN G.J.Round silver medal with red, blue and white ribbonFront G:BR:OMN:REX ET INDIAE IMP: GEORGIVS VI with stampoing of King George. Back 1939,1945 showing a lion standing on a double headed eagle. Engraved on side 410912 OLCORN G.J.service medal, 1939-1945 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Negative, Wal Jack, Dec, 1945
Yields information about the appearance of the ex Melbourne bogie trams, when they first came to Ballarat.Negative and Digital image of the Wal Jack Ballarat Negative file of Melbourne MMTB No. 117 - now unnumbered - at the City tram stop in Sturt St. possibly the same date as image 5273 - in Sturt St, 16-12-1945, Photo Wal Jack. Note the hut and wheel barrows in the median strip.trams, tramways, sturt st, bogie trams, tram 117 tram 22 -
City of Kingston
Photograph - Black and white, 20 December 1945
This aerial image covers a section of Cheltenham, with a large paddock yet to be converted to an industrial and later a commercial zone.This aerial photograph provides evidence of the changing landscape of Cheltenham and Highett since WWII. Photographed in 1945, the image features a large block of land now the site of site the major transformation of Cheltenham with the development of the Southland shopping centre in the 1960s and expansion in the 1990s.Aerial photograph of the Cheltenham area in the City of Kingston. This 1945 image is concentrated on the area between Bay Road and Garfield Lane with the distinctive bend into Jean Street. A large block of land runs between the Nepean Highway and the rail line. This is now the area occupied by the extension of Southland in the 1990s. It is a negative version of VKHC124.cheltenham, southland, market garden -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Payne, Robert, Love and Peace by Robert Payne, 1945
Chinese culture and history novel. The first in a series of novels describing the life of a Chinese family from 1908 to present day.Hardcover book which is the first of a series describing the life of a Chinese family from 1908 to the present day (1945). 206 pages. Book plate pasted to rear cover, indicating prior ownership: 'Griffiths Booksellers and Stationers Geelong.' Stamps inside book: 'This belongs to W. J. Griffiths Circulating Library'.fictionChinese culture and history novel. The first in a series of novels describing the life of a Chinese family from 1908 to present day.robert payne, chinese culture, chinese history, fiction -
Bendigo Military Museum
Award - MEDAL SET WW2, Post 1945
Alfred Maskell No VX25221 enlisted in the 2nd AIF on 25.6.40 aged 19 years. Posted to 4th Anti Tank Regt with the rank of Gunner he was taken POW at the fall of Singapore. He was held in Changi Gaol then went to work on the Thai-Burma Railway 1942-43 followed by Prison ship to Japan where he worked on the Docks until Wars end. He was discharged from the AIF on 12.12.45.Medals, court mounted, set of (6) re A Maskell. 1. 1939-45 Star. 2. Pacific Star. 3. Defence Medal. 4. War Medal 1939-45. 5. Australian Service Medal 1939 - 45 6. Australian Service Medal 1945-75 with clasp "SW PACIFIC"."VX25221 A.R Maskell"military, history, medals -
Victoria Police Museum
Photograph (police motorcycle)
Harley Davidson solo registration number 6-302 ridden by Alf Brown with Russell Street garage in background. Circa 1945police vehicles; wireless patrol; motor transport branch; motor transport section; motor cycle patrol; police motorcycles; harley davidson motorcycle; brown, alf; russell street -
Bendigo Military Museum
Award - MEDALS WW2
Relates to "John James Meade", No.144860 RAAF. Enlisted 29/9/43, age 18. Discharged 20/2/46, Rank L.A.C. No. 2 Operational Training Unit.Two Australian Service medals unmounted 1. Australian Service Medal 1939 - 45 2. War Medal 1939-1945. .1) .2) Both medals have inscribed on outside rim the persons Regt No, name and unit.war medal, australia service medal, john james meade, ww2 -
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Photograph
The 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles was raised as a regiment of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps on 1 May 1948 with Headquarters in Melbourne and squadrons in Sale, Benalla/Wangaratta and Albury. In 1955 Regimental Headquarters moved to Wangaratta and a second squadron was located at Albury. The Sale squadron transferred to 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse. In 1977 8/13 VMR Regiment was reduced to an independent squadron A Squadron 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles and in 1991 was linked with 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse forming the VMR Squadron of that regiment.Black and white photograph of large group of 8/13 Victorian Mounted Rifles soldiers on exercise at Puckapunyal c. 1967. Possibly 1 Troop A Squadron. -
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Photograph - Gay and Jackel
The 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles was raised as a regiment of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps on 1 May 1948 with Headquarters in Melbourne and squadrons in Sale, Benalla/Wangaratta and Albury. In 1955 Regimental Headquarters moved to Wangaratta and a second squadron was located at Albury. The Sale squadron transferred to 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse. In 1977 8/13 VMR Regiment was reduced to an independent squadron A Squadron 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles and in 1991 was linked with 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse forming the VMR Squadron of that regiment.Colour photograph of Major J.Gay and Captain L. Jackel of 8/13 Victorian Mounted Rifles at Formal Dinner at Buna Barracks 25 May 1991.dinner, jackel, gay, vmr -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Tool - Auger, Mathieson, First half of the 20th Century
In 1792 John Manners had set up a workshop making woodworking planes at 14 Saracens Lane Glasgow. He also had employed an apprentice Alexander Mathieson (1773-1851). But in the following year at Saracen's Lane, the 1841 census describes Alexander Mathieson as a master plane-maker now at 38 Saracen Lane with his son Thomas Adam working with him as a journeyman plane-maker. Presumably, Alexander must have taken over the premises and business of John Manners. Now that the business had Thomas Adam Mathieson working with his father it gradually grew and became more diversified, and it is recorded at the time by the Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory that by 1847-1848 Alexander Mathieson was a “plane, brace, bit, auger & edge tool maker” In 1849 the firm of James & William Stewart at 65 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh was taken over and Thomas was put in charge of the business, trading under the name Thomas A. Mathieson & Co. as plane and edge-tool makers. Thomas's company went on to acquire the Edinburgh edge-tool makers “Charles & Hugh McPherson” and took over their premises in Gilmore Street. In the Edinburgh directory of 1856/7, the business is recorded as being Alexander Mathieson & Son, plane and edge-tool makers at 48 Nicolson Street and Paul's Work, Gilmore Street Edinburgh. The 1851 census Alexander is recorded as working as a tool and plane-maker employing eight men. Later that year Alexander died and his son Thomas took over the business. Under the heading of an edge-tool maker in the 1852/3 Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory the firm is now listed as Alexander Mathieson & Son, with further entries as "turning-lathe and vice manufacturers". By the early 1850s, the business had moved to 24 Saracen Lane. The directory for 1857/8 records that the firm had moved again only a few years later to East Campbell Street, off the Gallowgate area, and that through further diversification was also manufacturing coopers' and tinmen's tools. The ten-yearly censuses report the firm's growth in 1861 stating that Thomas was a tool manufacturer employing 95 men and 30 boys; in 1871 he had 200 men working for him and in 1881 300 men. By 1899 the firm had been incorporated as Alexander Mathieson & Sons Ltd, even though only Alexander's son Thomas appears ever to have joined the firm so the company was still in his fathers' name. In September 1868 Thomas Mathieson put a notice in the newspapers of the Sheffield & Rotherham Independent and the Sheffield Daily Telegraph stating that his firm had used the trade-mark of a crescent and star "for some time" and that "using or imitating the Mark would be proceeded against for infringement". The firm had acquired its interest in the crescent-and-star mark from the heirs of Charles Pickslay, the Sheffield cutler who had registered it with the Cutlers' Company in 1833 and had died in 1852. The year 1868 seems also to be the one in which the name Saracen Tool Works was first adopted; not only does it figure at the foot of the notice in the Sheffield press, it also makes its first appearance in the firm's entry in the Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory in the 1868/9 edition. As Thomas Mathieson's business grew, so too did his involvement in local public life and philanthropy. One of the representatives of the third ward on the town council of Glasgow, he became a river bailie in 1868, a magistrate in 1870 and a preceptor of Hutcheson's Hospital in 1878. He had a passion for books and was an "ardent Ruskinian". He served on the committee handling the bequest for the setting up of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. When he died at Coulter Maynes near Biggar in 1899, he left an estate worth £142,764. Company's later years: Both Thomas's sons, James Harper and Thomas Ogilvie were involved in the continuing life of the firm. James followed in his father's footsteps in becoming a local public figure. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of the City of Glasgow and was made a deacon of the Incorporation of the Hammermen of Glasgow in 1919. His brother Thomas Ogilvie was recorded as tool manufacturer and employer in the 1911 census. Thomas Ogilvie's son Thomas Alastair Sutherland Ogilvie Mathieson was born in 1908 took a rather different approach to engineering, however, by becoming a racing driver. In 1947 he wed the French film actress Mila Parély. The firm had won many awards at world fairs for their goods. At the Great Exhibition, London, 1851. Prize medal for joiners' tools in the class of Cutlery & Edge Tools, Great London Exposition, 1862. Prize medal honoris causa. International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1880. Gold medal International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art, Edinburgh, 1886. Prize medal The firm of Alexander Mathieson & Sons was one of the leading makers of hand tools in Scotland. Its success went hand in hand with the growth of the shipbuilding industries on the Firth of Clyde in the nineteenth century and the emergence of Glasgow as the "second city of the Empire". It also reflected the firm's skill in responding to an unprecedented demand for quality tools by shipyards, cooperages and other industries, both locally and far and wide.Scotch Eye Nose bit auger. Similar to shell bit except the nose turned inwards to form a cutting lip. Has "A" 15/16 and Mathieson stamped on bottom of shank.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, auger, ring auger, ship building -
The 5th/6th Battalion Royal Victoria Regiment Historical Collection
Weapon - Explosive Ordnance-Inert, 76MM ARMD C Shell- trophy, 1976
Presented to 1 RVR ORs mess by students of IET Coursw 1/8Presented to forerunner of current unit Brass shell with chromed prjectile. Projectile has description of rounds nature engraved in the side and a gold coloured fuze. A brass plaque is fixed to the front of the shell casing, it is enscribed detailing the nature of the trophy76mm ARMD C SX 710 LOT 33-MO-11-76 " Presented to the OR'S MESS DCOY 1 RVR BY FIVE SECTION 1/ 8 IET COURSE IN APPRECIATION OF THE EFFORT GIVEN TO THE TRAINING BY THE COURSE NCO'S" INERT 400 JUNE 96 5/6 091 rvr -
Puffing Billy Railway
10 NBH - Passenger Carriage - Excursion Car, 8/12/1919
10NBH Carriage - Excursion Car In Active Service - Belgrave Station Yard NBH SECOND-CLASS EXCURSION CAR. The H was recognising their use for "Holiday" traffic. 15 of these cars were built in 1919 and numbered 1-15. Two more were built in 1981, and numbered 16 & 17. Two extended versions for wheelchair passengers were built in 1981 & 1983. These were numbered 51 & 52 - a separate number series due to the different type of vehicle. Six, numbered 18-23, were built in 1997-98. These had steel frames, padded seats, and a wide "window sill". At first glance they look the same as the previous NBHs. There are other minor construction differences due to the use of steel framing. 18NBH entered traffic 19/4/1997; 19NBH on 5/12/1997; 20NBH on 19/12/1997, the others added in 1998. VR Service History : *NBH 10.VA - 8/12/1919 NWS Built new - /12/1928 - Modified AC Malco BO circa 1955 - Condemned -Historic - Victorian Railways Narrow Gauge - Passenger Rolling Stock: Excursion Car Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H2187 Puffing Billy Locomotives and Rolling Stock Collection10 NBH Passenger Carriage - Excursion Car made of steel and timber10NBHpuffing billy, 10nbh, nbh - excursion car, victorian railways, victorian railways narrow gauge - passenger rolling stock -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, Jim Seletto, 1961
Yields information about one of the MMTB scrubbers, No. 8, trams after it was repainted to the MMTB work tram colour scheme. This tram is now at the Museum.Black and White photograph of MMTB Scrubber tram No. 8 after it had been repainted in the string colour livery. Photo at the corner of Domain and St Kilda Road. Photo possibly Jim Seletto. Note: Some sources give the repainting and other works date as 1961.On rear in ink "No. 8 Domain and St Kilda Rd New Livery 1960 - 1st trip" and "D Print "16 Jan 1962" - this could be the print date.trams, tramways, scrubber tram, livery, work trams, st kilda road, tram 8 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Artwork, other - Framed photos of 8 Melbourne Art trams, Yarra Trams, Melbourne Art Trams Oct 2013 - Apr 2014, 2013
Features 8 Melbourne Art trams of Oct. 2013. This was the reinvention of the Transport Art programme of 1978 to 1993. Image 2 gives the sponsors details - Arts Victoria, Transport Victoria, Melbourne Festival and Yarra Trams. Artists featured are - SW6 925 - Jon Campbell, Z3 183 Freya Pitt, Z3 209 - Luke Cornish (ELK), Z3 151 - Rose Nolan, Z3 259 Joining Forces, D1 3509 - Brook Andrew, B2 2002 - David Wadelton, C3008 - Bindi Cole.Provides a framed set of photos of Art Trams that were presented to the public in 2013 - 2014.Wood frame, containing 8 photographic prints, label, text regarding the trams, framed with perspex card backing, paper, tape and fitted on the rear with a hanging cord.transporting art, art trams, decorated trams, melbourne, trams, tramways, tram 925, tram 183, tram 209, tram 151, tram 3509, tram259, tram 2002, tram 3008, sw6 class, z3 class, c1 class, d1 class, b2 class, jon campbell, freya pitt, luke cornish (elk), rose nolan, joining forces, brook andrew, david wadelton, bindi cole