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Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - CENTENARY of EAGLEHAWK ANZACS, FRAMED, Eaglehawk Heritage Society, HOWE BROTHERS, c2014
PRIVATE WILLIAM CHARLES HOWE, No 873, 14th Battalion, RTA 10/5/1916. PRIVATE NORMAN LESLIE HOWE, No 5107, 7th Battalion, died from wounds 5/10/1917 in Belgium. SERGEANT LESLIE GEORGE HOWE (same surname but not a brother) No. 2709, 7th Battalion, Awarded Distinguished Conduct Medal. RTA. Memorabilia - framed story of two brothers, soldiers in colour using memorabilia of the soldiers and their lives. Printed on paper. Frame - black extruded plastic, glass front, cardboard backing."HOWE BROTHERS"framed item, anzacs, eaglehawk -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Framed Photograph, HMAT Nestor
This photograph depicts HMAT Nestor departing Melbourne 2nd October 1916 with Australian Troops During WW1 HMAT Nestor mainly carried troops to England including the 6th reinforcements of the 57th 58th & 60th Battalions, 16th reinforcements of the 21st 22nd 23rd & 24th Battalions and 21st reinforcements of the 5th 6th 7th & 14th Battalions.During World War I HMAT Nestor was a troopship for the Australian Expeditionary Force, and in World War II evacuated British children to Australia. She completed her final round voyage to Australia in 1950. Carved timber frame containing sepia coloured photograph of ship being towed by tug boat from wharf crowded with people HMAS NESTOR Departed Melbourne 2nd October, 1916 History on paper attached to glass,hmat nestor, troopship -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Memorabilia - Personal collection, framed
Framed mounted - Military Medal Keith Downward; Australian Active Service Medal with clasp Vietnam; Vietnam Medal; Australian Defence Medal; Australian National Service Medal; Vietnam Campaign Medal with clasp 1960. A certified True Copy of the citation for the Military Medal. Aluminium frame olive matt board, 6 medals and plaque. 1 infantry combat badge, 1 rising sun badge, 1 7RAR Corps badge, 3 black and white Photograph, Photograph 1 reads Pte Keith Downward receives the ribbon of the Military Medal from his Commanding Officer Major Jake O'Donnell at the 1st Australian Task Force Base (1ATF), Nui Dat, South Vietnam 25th February 1968. Photograph 2 reads Pte Keith Downward, the first Military Medal Winner from 7th battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), Nui Dat, South Vietnam 25th February 1968. Photograph 3 reads Major General R W Knights, General Officer Commanding (GOC), Southern Command congratulates Military Medal recipient Keith Downward 7RAR accompanied by his wife Ann, for single handedly capturing an enemy machine gun post. Captain Ernest G Crooks MBE looks on.3788618 Pte. Keith Downard M.M. / A Company 7 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment / the Military Medal was awarded for his actions during the battle of Suoi Chau Pha on 6th August 1967./ The training platoon of 7 RAR is named the Downward MM platoon in honour of Keith Downard7 rar, keith downward, military medal, battle of suoi chau pha, maj jake o'donnell, maj gen r w knights, capt ernest g crooks, a coy, downard -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPHS WW1, 2) 2.5.1919
.2) On rear in purple pen is an extensive letter from Couillet Belgium from James to Mother & Father. Photo relates to an Orderly Room & the men are from 57th, 58th & 59th Battalions. James Worland MILLS No 3441 59th Battalion is first on the L standing, the others are from the 57th, 58th Battalions. Refer Cat No 169P for his service details..1) Post card photo, sepia, showing a troopship in harbour. .2) Post card photo, sepia, showing a group of 6 soldiers, 3 sitting / 3 standing with a brick building in the background..1) “HMT SVERRE CAPE TOWN” .2) On front in purple appears to be: “Sincerely yours James”photographs, 57th, 58th, 59th -
Geelong RSL Sub Branch
Documents - 826 Harry J Britter, Early 20th Century
The family of 826 Harry James Britter have collected paper clippings, cablegrams, greeting cards relating to the Service of H J Britter, who enlisted into the AIF on 12 July 1915, he was posted to 31 Battalion. In WW1 this Battalion initially went to Egypt, the Battalion consisted of two companies from Queensland and two companies from Victoria. The documents are originals and have been preserved by the family of 8216 Harry J Britter, a Geelong man who enlisted into the AIF on 12 July 1915Paper clippings, Cablegrams, Greeting CardsPaper clippings - with photographs of 826 H J Britter, PMG Cablegrams from Britter to wife etc, Military PMG Cablegrams re Britter injured in hospital. Greeting Cards from Britter to wife.31 battalion, 826 harry j britter -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, FRAMED WW1, Talma, c.1918
60893 Private Jim BURNS, 5th Battalion, Heathcote, Victoria. Reinforced 5th Battalion in England then went to Belgium. War ceased whilst at sea. Arrived England 14.11.1918. Discharged 25.9.1919.Black & white photo of a group of Soldiers attached to dark grey heavy cardboard.In front of group in handwritten white paint: "9th RFTS, C S GROUP"photographs, framed, 5th -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
World War I Collection
WWIWWI involved men and women from the Kiewa ValleyLarge plastic opaque box with folders, display items and documents. 1. Norman Hore collection 2.Fund Raisers - medal and poppy 3. Postcard 4. Banner 5. Folders including Final List; 37th Battalion; B. H. Roper & S. Hollonds 6. Display Poster re recruitment 7. Letters from the Front by E. & A. Briggs 8. Folders; Those who Served from the towns in the Kiewa Valley 9. I & J. Marum - Australian Army Nursing Service 10. The 37th Battalion; 11. War Records of 7 local soldiers and 12. Poppy Applique kiewa valley in wwi -
The 5th/6th Battalion Royal Victoria Regiment Historical Collection
Plaque - Plaque presented from Legacy, 2021 Battle of the Bases 1st Place 5th/6th Battalion The Royal Victoria Regiment
award received by the battalion in 2021Wooden plaque with medal tab on the plaque5/6 rvr, 5/6 rvr bhq, plaque, legacy -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph
John Joseph LOWERY No 1926. KIA. Refer 3060 for his service history details, also 2564P.Sepia photo of a soldier in uniform with 3 Sergeant stripes & holding a riding crop. Photo is pasted to cardboard & glued to a piece of white painted MDF.Printed top: Lance Sgt J.J.LOWERY 22ND BATTALION Printed at bottom: KILLED IN ACTION 2nd OCT 1917 BROODSEINDE RIDGE ANZACphotograph, ww1, portrait soldier -
Bendigo Military Museum
Accessory - ENVELOPE JAPANESE, 1942-45
John Phillip MURPHY No VX17294 enlisted in the 2nd AIF on 15.5.1940 age 30 years 5 months. Posted to the 2/29th Bn 29.11.1940, embarked for Singapore 30.7.1941 disembarking 15.8.1941. Promoted to L/Cpl 2.1.1942, listed as missing 16.2.1942 then POW. A telegram in his records dated 4.8.1945 to his wife Mrs A Murphy of Kirkwood St Eaglehawk states “Alive at Changi Camp”. He disembarked Australia on 8.10.1945 and discharged from the Army on 6.12.1945. Refer also Cat No 1110.Envelope, “Prisoner of War Post” yellowed, red print, stamped “Passed by Censor” re J.P.Murphy.Typed “VX17294 L/Cpl J P Murphy 2/29 Battalion AIF Australian Prisoner of War Malaya”. In pencil “Changi”.envelopes japanese, pow, murphy -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Memorabilia, Earthenware Decanter, 1995
Green and gold earthenware decanter shaped like a jerrycan - empty7th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment Assoc. 30th anniversary 1965-1995 Tawny Port Lesnik family wines Pokolbin NSWcommerorative decanter, 7 rar, 30th anniversary -
Magnet Galleries Melbourne Inc
Officers posing in camp, red cliffs00144.tif
Two photographs on a page from an albumYours etc. W.T.V. 10 Mill Z205742 Tramways du Caire Group of officers 8th battalion mena camp Jan 1915ww1, world war 1, a.i.f, australia, officers, mena camp, camp, 1915, january, tramways du caire -
The 5th/6th Battalion Royal Victoria Regiment Historical Collection
Photograph - Framed Photograph, Some things Never Change, 2000
Blank and white photograph of Vickers Gun crew and Villers-Bretonneau France 26 Apr 1918To the Battalions Gunners: precented to the members of: DFSW Platoon & the wark VC Club by LT. P. O'shea DFSW Platoon Commander 1999 to 2000ww1, support company, 5/6rvr, wark vc club, dfsw -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, FRAMED, 1960
Col J. Swatton, refer Cat No 6719.2P for his service details.Framed black and white photograph. Frame wood, brown.Commanding officers and Honorary Colonel of 38th Infantry Battalion at Final Regimental Dinner of the Battalion, 25 June 1960. Back Row: Lt Col P. Seymour, Col J Swatton, Front Row: Lt Col Robinson, Maj Gen Risson (Hon Col) Lt Col D. D. Scholespasschendaele barracks trust, photograph, 38th battalion, regimental dinner -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Framed Banner, 24th Australian Inf Bn. (AIF)
The banner depicts the original Unit motto and colour patch - white over red diamond - of the 24th Battalion which was raised in a hurry from a surplus of recruits at Broadmeadows Camp in Victoria. The battalion was formed during the first week of May 1915 ,and sailed from Melbourne at the end of that week. On September 4, 1915 the Battalion went ashore at Gallipoli and spent the next 16 weeks sharing duty in the Lone Pine trenches with the 23rd Battalion. in March 1916 the Battalion proceeded to France. It took part in its first major offensive around Pozieres and Mouquet Farm in July and August 1917. When patrolling no-man's land the men of the 24th adopted a unique form of snow camouflage - large white nighties bought in Amiens. The Battalion left the front line for the last time on 6 October 1918 and disbanded in May 1919. Victoria's 2/24th Infantry Battalion was raised in Wangaratta in July 1940 and were deployed to the middle east. After extensive fighting at Tobruk and El Alamein bettween July and November 1942 the Unit adopted a T shaped colour patch. After formation, the 2/24th battalion was moved to Wangaratta, where it remained until its training facilities were ready in Bonegilla prior to overseas deployment to the middle east. Because of its time in Wangaratta, it became colloquially known as "Wangaratta's Own" and later received the Freedom of the City.Two clear perspex sheets containing green banner with white over red diamond shape, gold coloured writing and fringe below with metal plaque.24th Aust Inf Bn. (AIF) 1939-45 I HOLD FAST Plaque - No 1 Banner Presented to The Wangaratta Club by the 24th Aust Inf Bn (AIF) 1939-45 on 15-9-84 banner, 24th australian infantry battalion, white over red diamond, unit colour patch -
Bendigo Military Museum
Administrative record - CERTIFICATE OF DISCHARGE & PAYBOOK WW1, C. October1916 and 22.4.1918
Edward George Longstaff No 3381, enlisted 31.10.1916 age 44years 2 months, embarked for England 6.12.916, posted to 2nd Pioneer Bn, embark for France 22.5.1917, classified with Rhuematism 10.11.1917 and returned to England, Returned to Aust 11.1.918 and then discharged Medically unfit “Senility” 22.4.1918..1) Certificate of Discharge Register No 374 in the name of Regt 3381 Private Edward George LONGSTAFF, 2nd Pioneer Battalion. Cream heavy paper with black writing. .2) Maroon coloured cloth covered Pay Book in the name of 3381 Private Edward George LONGSTAFF.certificate, administrative, paybook -
Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - BADGE & PINS, C. Post WW1
Insignia of 38th Battalion AIF embroidered on circular black cloth & mounted on red velvet background. Encased in gold painted wooden frame. Top RHC gold coloured metal regimental badge with navy enamelled banners bearing Regiment in gold. Embroidery in coloured cottons."Honorem Custodites 38"numismatics-badges-army, uniforms - badges - army, metalcraft - enamel ware, handcraft, passchendaele barracks trust, 38th -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, FRAMED, C.1914 - 17
Bertram Avenue Sheir Carey No 49 enlisted in the AIF in A Coy 5th Batt AIF on 17.8.14 age 26 years. Embarked for Egypt 21.10.14, embark for Gallipoli 5.4.15, WIA 26.4.15 GSW to thigh fractured, returns to duty 30.9.15, promoted to CPl 1.3.16, attached to 1st Army Pay Corps 1.9.16, transfers to Australian Flying Corps (AFC) London and posted 30th Training SQD 29.11.17, taken on strength 1st Wing HQ 16.1.18, discharged from the AIF 28.3.19.Framed photo of B.A.S. Carey, No. 49, 5th Battalion AIF and A.F.C. A grainy black and white portrait of an Australian soldier. Bare headed. Hat under his left arm. At least two strips on right sleeve. Frame - stylised black and gold wooden frameTicket on front - B.A.S CAREY NO 49 5 BN AIF and A.F.C. WIA 26 - 4 - 1915.photography-photographs, frame accessories, military history -
Frankston RSL Sub Branch
Document
Printed Certificate of Discharge document used by the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force. Issued to Private William George Giddens, service number 3080, to acknowledge his service with the 59th Battalion during World War 1 from 8th July, 1915 to 6th October, 1919. -
Frankston RSL Sub Branch
Identification Tag
WW2 identification tag made of aluminium. This identification tag belonged to Private Roy Milton Blood, service number VX145207, 2/12th Australian Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF. Blood enlisted in Dubbo, NSW on the 29th September, 1943 and was discharged on 19h February, 1947. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Postcard - ROBINSON COLLECTION: CHARLES ROBINSON
Black and white postcard showing a man from the bust up, he is wearing white shirt, tie and jacket, he has dark hair and moustache. On the back No 5175 Pvte Charles Robinson, 16th regiment, 6th battalion, 2nd infantry brigade, A.I.F. Egypt.person, individual, charles robinson -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Document - National Service training letter
Four page proforma letter from Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel K. H. Kirkland, 2n. Recruit Training Battalion Puckapunya to inform Pte N E Swainston of details of the 70-day basic training for conscripted soldiers. Details of training conditions are itemised.conscription, training, national service - australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Article - Article, Clipping, The Tigers come home
Two full size B&W photocopied pages of a newspaper story from The Sun (Sydney) dated Friday 12 May, 1967. Front page story includes photo of some members of 5th Battalion lined up on deck of HMAS Sydney on their return home.Heading - THE 'TIBERS' COME HOMEtigers, 5th battalion, newspapers -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Photograph, Crossing the Line 2
A black and white photograph of digger from 9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, watch as the courtiers of "King Neptune" during the "crossing of the line" ceremony on board the Vung Tau Ferry HMAS Sydney, taking the 9RAR for service in Vietnam, arrest a digger for being "over dressed".photograph, hmas sydney, vung tau ferry, 9 rar, gibbons collection catalogue -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Photograph, Trooping the Colour 4
A black and white photograph of Townsville, Qld 18/08/1968. The Trooping of the 6 RAR Colour past the Prime Minister The Right Honourable John Gorton MP. The Colour is followed by number 1 Guard consisting of Delta Company 6th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regimentphotograph, battle of long tan, 6 rar, d company, townsville, john gorton, gibbons collection catalogue -
The 5th/6th Battalion Royal Victoria Regiment Historical Collection
Photograph - A photograph of troops loaded in landing boats
A copy of a photograph with text explanation of "Seaward view from the promenade deck of the troopship galena. Troops from the 6th and 7th Battalion loaded in landing boats, are towed to their landing point at Fisherman's Hut North Beach. 25th April 1915". The photograph is in the glass wooden frame -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph, Melba & Co, 7th Australian Infantry Training Battalion WW1
George Alfred Yung, known as Alf, pictured in the second row, 10th from the left, enlisted on 25/02/1916; embarked on 19/02/1917; was killed during the battle of Menin Gate at Yrpres, Belgium on 20/09/1917. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/U51447 The 7th Battalion was among the first infantry units raised for the AIF during the First World War. Like the 5th, 6th and 8th Battalions, it was recruited from Victoria and, together with these battalions, formed the 2nd Brigade. The battalion was raised by Lieutenant Colonel H. E. "Pompey" Elliott within a fortnight of the declaration of war in August 1914 and embarked just two months later. After a brief stop in Albany, Western Australia, the battalion proceeded to Egypt, arriving on 2 December. It later took part in the ANZAC landing on 25 April 1915, as part of the second wave. Ten days after the landing, the 2nd Brigade was transferred from ANZAC to Cape Helles to help in the attack on the village of Krithia. The attack captured little ground but cost the brigade almost a third of its strength. The Victorian battalions returned to ANZAC to help defend the beachhead, and in August the 2nd Brigade fought at the battle of Lone Pine. While holding positions captured by the 1st Brigade, four members of the 7th Battalion, Corporal A. S. Burton, Acting Corporal W. Dunstan, Lieutenant W. Symons and Captain F. H. Tubb, earned the Victoria Cross - Burton posthumously. The battalion served at ANZAC until the evacuation in December. After the withdrawal from Gallipoli in December 1915, the battalion returned to Egypt. In March 1916, it sailed for France and the Western Front and entered the front line trenches for the first time on 3 May. The battalion's first major action in France was at Pozieres in the Somme valley where it fought between 23-27 July and 15-21 August. After Pozieres the battalion manned trenches in the Ypres salient in Belgium, before returning to the Somme valley. It saw out the horrendous winter of 1916-1917 rotating between training, working parties and duty in the trenches. In early 1917, the Germans withdrew to the Hindenburg Line and the 7th Battalion participated in the brief advance that followed and then came to a grinding halt before Bullecourt. The battalion was withdrawn from the front line for training on 9 May 1917 and did not return to action until the Ypres offensive of September and October. It fought major battles at Menin Road on 20 September and Broodseinde on 4 October, and then spent much of ensuing winter in the Ypres mud. In March and April 1918 the 7th helped stop the German spring offensive in northern France and later participated in the Allies' own great offensive of 1918, that began with the battle of Amiens on 8 August. The advance by British and empire troops on 8 August was the greatest success in a single day on the Western Front, one that German General Erich Ludendorff described as, "the black day of the German Army in this war". The battalion continued operations until late September 1918. At 11 am on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent. The November armistice was followed by the peace treaty of Versailles signed on 28 June 1919. In November 1918 members of the AIF began to return to Australia for demobilisation and discharge. In March, the battalion was so reduced that it and the 6th Battalion were amalgamated to form a composite battalion. In turn, this battalion was merged with another, formed from the 5th and 8th Battalions, to form the 2nd Brigade Battalion. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/U51447army, soldier, alf yung, 7th australian infantry battalion -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Weapon - Bayonet, Scabbard and Pattern 1892 Bayonet Frog, Bayonet, Scabbard and Pattern 1892 Bayonet Frog on Sam Brown Belt on Jack's mannequin
This type of bayonet was used by infantry Rifle Regiments of the British Army and by Infantry Battalions of the Australian State Defence Forces in the 1890's; then by some infantry battalions of the Australian Army especially in a ceremonial roleThere is no record found of this type bayonet frog in use by 4th/17th/19th Light Horse Regiments. Use by VMR (the colonial predecessor to 4th/17th/19th Light Horse Regiments) is unlikely. Bayonet, Scabbard and Pattern 1892 Bayonet Frog on Sam Brown Belt on Jack's mannequin. Bayonet frog made of 'buff' leather, and stained brown on the front. Hand stitched with reinforcing tin plated copper rivetsold hand writing illegiblebayonet frog 1892 1888 buff leather, bayonet and scabbard of usual materials, -
Myrtleford RSL
21St Battalion A.I.F. Stone
Stone from Abbey ruins at Mont St. Quentin, captured by the 21st Battalion A.I.F. on 1st Sept. 1918 & presented to the Myrtleford Sub-Branch by the Twenty-First Battalion Association, 20th November, 1971.The Stone is from the Abbey at Mont St. Quentin, captured by the 21st Battalion, 2nd Division A.I.F., on the 1st Sept. 1918. A Battle described by General Sir Henry Rawlinson, Commander, British Fourth Army as "The finest single feat of the War". During this Battle Sergeant "Alby" Lowerson, from Myrtleford was awarded the Victoria Cross for leading several men to capture a group of enemy machine guns that were holding up the advance. The Stone was presented in 1971 by members of the 21st Battalion Association, (named on the reverse side) to Myrtleford Sub-Branch R.S.L. Stone mounted on wooden board.Board inscribed with details of the mounted stone, with the names of those present on the reverse.world war 1, ww1, 21st battalion aif, 2nd australian division, western front, mont st quentin, sgt. a.d. lowerson v.c., myrtleford rsl -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH: Group portrait of AIF Officers 37 Btn AIF, 37 Battalion, includes Symons V.C, c1916-1919
The Battalion C.O. was Lt.Col. F.G. Woods.Black and white portrait of a group of AIF Officers 37 Btn AIF, They are arranged in three rows with a corrugated iron hut behind them. There is long grass in front of them. The officers are in service dress with Sam Brown belts, canes and riding crops. Captain W J Symons V.C. is in the front row. The photo is mounted on a piece of thick cardboard.Names of the officers are printed on the cardboard under the photo. The makers name and address is there as well.ww1, 37 btn, aif, symons v.c.