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Bendigo Military Museum
Headwear - BERET, Commonwealth Government Clothing Factory Melbourne
Item issued to Margaret LAMBIE F3492 W.R.A.A.C. refer Cat No 5019.3. Margaret Married Peter Dodd, refer Cat No 2436.2P for his service details.Beret green outer colour oval shape with stiff cardboard head band, inside is grey lined with sewn in label, badge on front is secured by two safety pins, badge consists of central diamond shape silver colour with stars of Aust Flag, outer gold wreath and plaque under.On the badge, “WRAAC”. On sewn in label, “Commonwealth Government Clothing Factory Melbourne”. Hand written, M LAMBIE”headwear, beret, wraac -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph, Lorraine Studios, Port United Social Party 1956, 1956
Belonged to Ron AMY who was a member of the Port United Social Party in 1956. Kevin LAVENY is possibly Kevin LAVERY. Charlie BATTERN possibly Charlie BATTENPort United Social Party 1956. Large coloured photograph in cream mount. Shows 25 men in three rows. Social/Glee Club. Names of each man underneath. Donor's husband Ron AMY 4th from left top row. (Cross refer to cat 2661 where some names differ)societies clubs unions and other organisations, social activities, port melbourne social party, b wilson, brian nichols, alf earp, eddie mclaughlin, ron amy, l earl, len clarke, john murphy, charlie rowe, mick amy, j garland, c nugent, george lowe, wally lockhart, ray amy, oscar rouse, tommy gleeson, john o'keefe, charlie cosham, kevin laveny, kevin 'wookie' lavery, bob forward, harold 'dags' brown, harry mitchell, jock morrison, charlie battern, charlie batten -
Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - CARD & PHOTOGRAPH, Post 1918
Horace Stanley GIBSON, Refer Cat No 34.2 for his service details. This card was with Cat No 34.2, & 3272.2 when found under a house during a clean up..1) Card, folded, greyish to hold a photo inside. Re photo of a grave. Inside cover has the details of Horace Stanley GIBSON, No, Rank, where buried. 3rd page has slip in place for photo, rear has details of to whom card is sent. .2) Photo of GIBSON'S grave.1.) Front top: “Rising Sun” Printed underneath: “ Australian Imperial Force”, GIBSON, Horace Stanley No 1817, SPR, 4th Div Sig Coy. Buried, Hooge Crater No 284 Cemetery Plot 1 Row F Ypres, Belgium””graves, photographs -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, WAR GRAVE, Post 1915
Item is re Pte W. Williams No 1442 2nd Bn AIF. Refer Cat No 4342P for his service details also Cat No 1859P for medals and photo.Black and white photo on photographic paper of a cross on a grave in foreground, background shows a partial cross and bushes.On back of photograph hand written in black ink, “Walter, grave killed 29th/15”photographs, graves, ww1 -
Federation University Historical Collection
Plan, Sketch of Ballaarat Gold-Field, 1851, 11/10/1851
The sketch was made by A.C. MacDonald, F.R.G.S. and presented to James Oddie, who was one of the earliest gold diggers at Ballarat..1) Reproduction of a line sketch plan of the Ballarat goldfield as it was on 11 October 1851 as drawn by A.C. MacDonald, and recopied by C.M. Yelland. The dots indicate appoximate extent of the Ballarat Goldfield in 1851. The dot and dash line indicates approximate area covered with tents. .2) Includes an indication of the locality of the Township of Baallarat West in 1867. Verso of cat. No. 4296.2, and written by Keith Rash - "On 10th October 1851, 1,300 licenses had been issued. 30th October 1851 2246 licenses. Lieut. Gov. LaTobe letter to Earl Grey." james oddie, a c macdonald, gold commissioner, mcleod, alfred clark, kavanagh, willis, highett, yarrowee river, a.c. macdonald, ballarat goldfield, ballaarat goldfield, lamda, c.m. yelland -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Diathermy Equipment, c. 1926
This Diathermy Equipment set once belonged to Dr T.F. Ryan of Nhill and 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 would take time to 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 ) Dr Angus was a ‘flying doctor’ for the A.I.M. (Australian Inland Ministry) Aerial Medical Service in 1928 . The organisation began in South Australia through the Presbyterian Church in that year, with its first station being 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 where he’d previously worked as Medical Assistant and purchased a share of the Nelson Street practice and Mira hospital from Dr Les Middleton one of the Middleton Brothers, the current owners of what was once Dr Tom Ryan’s practice. Dr L Middleton was House Surgeon to the Nhill Hospital 1926-1933, when he resigned. [Dr Tom Ryan’s practice had originally belonged to his older brother Dr Edward Ryan, who came to Nhill in 1885. Dr Edward saw patients at his rooms, firstly in Victoria Street and in 1886 in Nelson Street, until 1901. The Nelson Street practice also had a 2 bed ward, called Mira Private Hospital ). Dr Edward Ryan was House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1884-1902 . He also had occasions where he successfully performed veterinary surgery for the local farmers too. Dr Tom Ryan then purchased the practice from his brother in 1901. Both Dr Edward and Dr Tom Ryan work as surgeons included eye surgery. Dr Tom Ryan performed many of his operations in the Mira private hospital on his premises. He too was 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 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. Dr Tom Ryan moved from Nhill in 1926. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1927, soon after its formation, a rare accolade for a doctor outside any of the major cities. He remained a bachelor and died suddenly on 7th Dec 1955, aged 91, at his home in Ararat. Scholarships and prizes are still awarded to medical students in the honour of Dr T.F. Ryan and his father, Dr Michael Ryan, and brother, John Patrick 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 states “HOURS Daily, except Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturday afternoons, 9-10am, 2-4pm, 7-8pm. Sundays by appointment”. This plate is now mounted on the doorway to the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Warrnambool. Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Tom Ryan had an extensive collection of historical medical equipment and materials spanning 1884-1926 and when Dr Angus took up practice in their old premises he obtained this collection, a large part of which is now on display at the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool. During his time in Nhill Dr Angus was involved in the merging of the Mira Hospital and Nhill Public Hospital into one public hospital and the property titles passed on to Nhill Hospital in 1939. 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. ). 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. (The duties of a Port Medical Officer were outlined by the Colonial Secretary on 21st June, 1839 under the terms of the Quarantine Act. 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. Their interests included organisations such as Red Cross, Rostrum, Warrnambool and District Historical Society (founding members), Wine and Food Society, Steering Committee for Tertiary Education in Warrnambool, Local National Trust, Good Neighbour Council, Housing Commission Advisory Board, United Services Institute, Legion of Ex-Servicemen, Olympic Pool Committee, Food for Britain Organisation, Warrnambool Hospital, Anti-Cancer Council, Boys’ Club, Charitable Council, National Fitness Council and Air Raid Precautions Group. He was also a member of the Steam Preservation Society and derived much pleasure from a steam traction engine on his farm. He had an interest in people and the community He and his wife Gladys 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. Diathermy Equipment once belonging to Dr T.F. Ryan, from the W.R. Angus Collection. The equipment is stored in 2 boxes. A long box contains llight weight wooden pieces that make up a Diathermy Clamp (2 extension arms and 2 cross bars). A short deep box contains Diathermy Electrodes; metal (2), metal mesh (2), rubber sponges (2 melded into 1 by perishing), Large Diathermy Pad with cable and connector attached "DIATHERMY PAD" hand written on back. Also, documents (6); receipt to "Dr Ryan, Nhill", from Stamford X-Ray & Radium Co 8/2/1926, instructions (2), notes written on back of eye Field of Vision charts (3). Both boxes have the maker's name on the label "Liebel-Flarsheim Co., Cincinnati, Ohio."Stamped onto the label on the Clamp bos "4 1/2 x 5" and (Cat. No.) "2028" Hand written in black on back of diathermy pad "DIATHERMY PAD" Receipt made to "Dr Ryan, Nhill"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, surgical instrument, t.s.s. largs bay, warrnambool base hospital, nhill base hospital, mira hospital, flying doctor, medical treatment, medical history, diathermy treatment, stamford x-ray and radium co, l-f diathermy clamp, both boxes have maker's label liebel-flarsheim co., cincinnati, ohio. -
Disability Sport & Recreation Victoria
Grey medal case, Grey medal case containing silver/grey coloured medal from 1966 Australian Paraplegic Games - Basketball - Kevin Coombs, 1966
Kevin Richard Coombs, OAM (born 30 May 1941) is an Australian wheelchair basketballer and athlete who competed at 5 Paralympics including the first Paralympic Games in 1960. He was the first Australian Aboriginal Paralympic competitor for Australia.Grey plastic medal case.The lid on the case is inscribed with the word "TROPHY" and a laurel wreath. The bottom of the case is inscribed with "Casecraft. CAT. No 102". The interior of the case includes he text "Stokes (Australia) Limited - medallists and silversmtihs est. 1855:.australian paraplegic games, kevin coombs -
Disability Sport & Recreation Victoria
Grey medal case, Grey medal case containing medal from 1963 Victorian Paraplegic Games - Class B Women's 25 metres - 1st Crawl - Pam McCarthy, 1963
Anglo-Indian Pamela "Pam" McCarthy was struck by polio in 1945 at age 11 In addition to her becoming a singer, she also competed at a variety of sporting meets for the disabled.Grey plastic medal case.The lid on the case is inscribed with the word "TROPHY" and a laurel wreath. The bottom of the case is inscribed with "Casecraft. CAT. No 102". The interior of the case includes he text "Stokes (Australia) Limited - medallists and silversmtihs est. 1855:.pamela mccarthy, victorian paraplegic games -
Disability Sport & Recreation Victoria
Grey medal case, Grey medal case containing silver medal from 1960 Australian Paraplegic Games - Javelin - Kevin Coombs, 1960
Kevin Richard Coombs, OAM (born 30 May 1941) is an Australian wheelchair basketballer and athlete who competed at 5 Paralympics including the first Paralympic Games in 1960. He was the first Australian Aboriginal Paralympic competitor for Australia.Grey plastic medal case.The lid on the case is inscribed with the word "TROPHY" and a laurel wreath. The bottom of the case is inscribed with "Casecraft. CAT. No 102". The interior of the case includes he text "Stokes (Australia) Limited - medallists and silversmtihs est. 1855:.australian paraplegic games, kevin coombs -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH WW1, C.1914 - 1918
L to R: Duncan GILLIES, Alec GILLIES (KIA), Donald GILLIES Front: Jack GILLIES For photographic print refer to Cat No 3529. For book refer to Cat No 3534Black & white photo of 4 soldiers in uniform. 3 with slouch hats, 1 with peaked cap standing at rear, soldiers on L & R wearing bandoliers, soldier in front is seated with legs crossed.photographs, gillies -
Bendigo Military Museum
Letter - AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES LETTER, Australian Military Forces of the Commonwealth 2nd Military District, 15.4.1919
Letter is re Pte Walter Williams No 1442 2nd Bn AIF. Refer Cat No 4342P for his service details and death also Cat No 1859P for photo and medals.Letter, official letterhead, “Military Forces of the Commonwealth” No 55755, all print/typing in black, to Mr Williams relating to the enlistment and embarkation of his sone Pte Walter Williams in 1915, letter is yellowish colour.In black type, “Mr.O.W.Williams 232 Lyttleton Terrace Bendigo Vic”letters, official, commonwealth -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, FRAMED WW1, Wayne Eels, C.2008/09
The Grinton Collection. Taken at the opening of the Macorna War Memorial on 5.3.1920. refer Cat No 5890P for more details. Jack Grinton. Refer Cat No. 1280 for his service history.Photograph - framed. Photograph - black and white photograph on paper depicts the "Macorna War Memorial" - globe upon a column with a square base. Foreground - table and chairs, background timber buildings and trees. Frame - Timber. light varnish finish, Perspex front, cardboard backing."Single Photos Group 2 (end of show): Opening of Macorna War Memorial".framed accessories, camera on the somme, ww1, 38th bn, grinton -
Bendigo Military Museum
Work on paper - BIOGRAPHY, FRAMED, Post 1970
Refer Cat No 629.Dark brown timber frame with gold inner edge with glass front. Biography of RAYENE STEWART SIMPSON VC, DCM. Black print on yellow coloured foolscap size paper.military history, aattv, vc dcm -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH WW2, FRAMED, c.1930 - 1940's
Refer Cat No 2502Photo, framed, colour enhanced, portrait of a soldier with peak cap, re W A BRIGHAM. Framed in wood, ornate with gold, black & wood staining.photography-photographs, frame accessories -
Bendigo Military Museum
Newspaper - NEWSPAPER CUTTING, C.WW2
See Cat No No 2455.Newspaper re Friedrich Krupp & POW's WWIIdocuments - newspapers, military history - army, krupp -
Bendigo Military Museum
Newspaper - NEWSPAPER, GUINEA GOLD, 1943
Refer CAt 5433PNewspaper- single sheet of paper, when folded it forms 4 pages. One image of Princess Elizabeth in uniform. War news from all over the world, civilian news, state by state, sport news.Top written in ink. A name ? L. MIHILKING 2 AUST. B. I . P.O.D.ww2, newspaper, newspaper guinea gold -
Bendigo Military Museum
Booklet - VIETNAMESE TRAFFIC SIGNS, C 1962-1972
See Cat 5490.Booklet- cardboard cover, bound with 2 staples. Grey and white with road signs in red and blue. !5 pages of traffic signs. Front cover- “Vietnamese Traffic Signs, with English Translations”Cvietnam war, book -
Bendigo Military Museum
Uniform - BATTLE DRESS, WINTER, ARMY, 1967
Refer to Cat 58251. Jacket - Thick woollen material - brown khaki colour, two breast pockets, held shut with a button on each. It has epaulettes and long sleeves, on the shoulders are red curved, sewn on, badges "Royal Australian Infantry". 2. Trousers - thick woollen material -brown khaki colour. Button fly. 3. Grey cord lanyard. Inside jacket is label 3795952, Patterson written in blue ink.winter uniform, vietnam war, army -
Bendigo Military Museum
Uniform - GREAT COAT, ARMY, Aust Army, 1966
Refer Cat 5825.This is a thick woollen great coat in Khaki green. It has 6 gold buttons on the front. The buttons have the motif of R.A. Inf. The coat had epaulettes held with a gold button. The buttons are of metal. Inside the coat is a small amount of cotton lining in a green colour. There is a woollen adjustable belt at rear with 3 gold buttons.Inside label has written "3795952" "Patterson W. D."winter uniform, great coat, army -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, JAPANESE SURRENDER, C1945-1947
Refer to CAT NO 5445.2Photograph has bee taken from high point inside a building. Looking down on an assembly of allies and Japanese officers. There are tables between them. Each Japanese officer has an allied serviceman standing at attention behind him. There is solitary US Army guard standing near a marble pillar A British Navy person probably Lord Mountbatten is approaching the centre chair.ww2, war trials, japanese surrender -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, AERIAL BOMBING, 1944.-1950
Refer to Cat 5445.2Black and white photograph taken during the bombing raid. In the phot can be seen rice paddies,train lines, roads and a camp of some sort, trenches .Rear Written” Nong Pladlik P.O.W camp 2nd bombing raid on camp Dec 3rd 1944 . 7 Killed Ist bombing on camp sept 7th 1944 93 Killed Stamp Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road Wader S E 1 overwritten on stamp are some letters and 43976 ww2, p.o.w, thailand -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, STEAM TRAIN, 1942-1945
see. Cat no 5445.2photograph- black and white, curved wooden trestle bridge, on the bridge is a steam loco pulling freight cars with humans sitting atop. The bridge is set in a jungle clad valley, down in The Valley are unused logs and poles. This is a copyRear of photograph- “THAILAND BURMA RLW BRIDGE MADE BY POWS” “ “I believe was between WAMPO and Kin SIA OK” 122309ww2, pow, burma railway -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, WAMPO BRIDGE, C1943-1948
REFER TO CAT 5445.2Photograph black and white. River, jungle covered hills. In the centre of the photo is a rail trestle bridge set against the steep hillside. The trestle bridge is made from timber On the rear of the photograph in ink. - 122326 WAMPO BRIDGE THAILAND- BURMARAILWAYww2, pow, burma railway -
Bendigo Military Museum
Document - TICKET, BAGGAGE, ANSETT AIRLINES, Ansett Airline, c 1968 - 1971
Refer to Cat 5825.Small cardboard ticket that is attached to baggage at the airport. Side 1 has black printing - Ansett Airlines of Victoria. Side 2 Has Meb - printed in ink are numbers 153 - 374. There is a hole at one end with a reinforced hole.On side 2 written in ink is Date: 12/11 Flight 27, Weight 7, name Patterson.memorabilia, military history, baggage ticket -
Bendigo Military Museum
Badge - BADGE, RAR, Aust Army, 1962 - 1972
See Cat 5825.This is a gold coloured badge. The letters R.A.R. with a top and bottom bar comprise the badge. On the rear are 2 steel pins with clips to mount the badge.vietnam war, aust infantry rergiment, badge -
Bendigo Military Museum
Equipment - RAINCOAT, Bramac Ltd, 1967
Refer Cat 5825This is brand new in a sealed plastic bag. The colour patter is black blotches on a jungle green backgound. There is a cotton label sewn into the back of the neck area.rain coat, uniform, vietnam war -
Bendigo Military Museum
Card - CARD, CHRISTMAS, c1939-1941
Refer to Cat 5109PThis is a folded cardboard card. Inside is a black & white photo of a volcano. Printed on the inside page within the card are the words; " With all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year". On the front cover is a drawing of palm trees, ocean and a ship with the words "Greetings from New Guinea" is printed in black ink. The card has a small piece of purple wool acting has a decorative binder.Written in ink, on the inside page is - "From E H Hildebrandt VX25591 10-12-41" ww2, rabaul, new guinea, christmas card, souvenir -
Bendigo Military Museum
Document - ENVELOPE
See Cat 5109P This is a standard size envelope. It has swirly faint pattern printed all over it. it has a blue rectangle on top left hand corner with words "By Air Mail Par Avion". It has a rubber stamp in top centre "Australian Imperial Force passed by censor 307." In the censor's stamp is written 1941-41. The addressee is Miss M Phillips, Beverford P.O. Victoria via Swan Hill, Australia. There is a signature on the left side that looks like RGR Parkhill.ww2, airmail, censors -
Bendigo Military Museum
Letter - LETTERS
See Cat 5109P1, 2 sheets of airmail paper, from VX25591 17 Anti tank Btn B Troop Rabaul, Dated 21 October 1940, signed by Ted. Written in ink. 2. 2 sheets of airmail paper, from VX25591 17 Anti tank Btn B Troop Rabaul, Dated 2 December 1941, signed by Ted, written in ink. 3. 2 sheets of airmail paper, from "Sat 18 April"115 Military Hospital, Ward 10A Heidelberg, signed by Ted, written in pencil, Dated in ink as April 18, 1942. All three letters are to Marjorie and also signed by Censor, ParkHill.ww@, rabaul, romance, letters, troop ships, censors -
Bendigo Military Museum
Letter - LETTERS, Australian Comfort Fund
See Cat 5109P1-3. Three page letters written in ink. The paper has the Australian Comforts Fund letterhead in red ink (RSL, Salvation Army & YMCA) - addressed to "My darling Marjorie" signed "From your loving boyfrien Ted". He mentions - Anniversary of the day the Japs "chased us out of Rabaul" air raids. He is in Victoria at time of writing. 4-5. Two page letter written in ink to "My Darling from "Love and kisses" Yours Ted. The letter is written from Goodnight, via Tooleybuc NSW 29 - 9 -1942. He mentioned farming, Bendigo and an electric iron surprise. 6 - 8. Three page letters on Comforts Fund letterhead paper. Written at 107 Con Depot, Ballarat. To "My Darling Marjorie" from "Love and Kisses" Yours Only Ted. He mentions weather, chocolate soldiers, Americans, Guadalcanal, here in Ballarat.ww2, romance, ballarat, americans