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Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Kurrah! : an Australian POW in Changi, Thailand & Japan, 1942-1945, 1991
Kuwah! details the experience of Bill Power a sapper with the 2.12th Field Company when thousands of Australians marched into two and a half years of captivity under the Japanese. Soft cover, cardboard, black and red print on front, back and spine. Sketch of POW person superimposed over a red and white flag on front cover. Black and white photograph of Bill Power in uniform on back cover. 146 pages cut plain. Illustrated black and white photographs and maps. Autobiography - diary. Front flyleaf - hand written black ink "Donated by Bgo YMCA". - blue ink "John W Toon OAM/ ex P.O.W./8th Div AASC"books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Bouganville 1942 - 1945. Australians in the Pacific War, 1995
Soft cover book, black black background. Large black and white photo of tank going through a creek. Pages 67 Illustrated black and white photos and map.books-military-history, books-bougainville 1942-1945 -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Burma the Longest War 1941 - 1945, 1984
Hardcover book with dust jacket. Dust jacket - light green colour. Red and white writing. Painting of 5 British soldiers waist deep in water. Book - Drab Olive colour, Buckram. Pages - 686 Illustrated - photos, maps, chartsstamped S.E. IBOTSONbooks, military history -
Federation University Historical Collection
Article - Article - Women, Ballarat Technical Art School: Women of Note; Beatrice Burgess, Art Student, 1944-1945
Beatrice Burgess was a student at the Ballarat Technical Art School. women of note, ballarat technical art school, art student, scholarship winner, martha pinkerton scholarship, 1945 and 1946, smb magazine contributor, 1944-1946 -
Greensborough Historical Society
Aerial Photograph, St Helena 1945, 1945_
Aerial survey photograph of St. Helena Road area of Greensborough3 copies, various enlargements of aerial surveygreensborough, st helena, st helena road -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Calendar 1995, Department of Veterans' Affairs, Australia Remembers 1945 - 1995, 1995
Commemorative calendar marking 50 years since World War 2calendar -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Book, Andrew Mackenzie, The etchings, lecture notes, and writings of Victor Cobb, 1876-1945 / compiled and edited by Andrew Mackenzie, 1987
Paperback; 111 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.ISBN 0909674345 [written on flyleaf] To the members of the Shire of Eltham Historical Society, with my very best wishes, Andrew Mackenzie 8 July 1987.victor cobb, artists -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Book, Andrew Mackenzie et al, A tribute to Victor Cobb, 1876-1945 : a retrospective exhibition / curated by Andrew Mackenzie, 1985
Paperback; 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.ISBN 0858166143victor cobb, artists -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Book. WW2. Pacific, Eyewitness to War-Australia's Pacific Campaign 1941-1945, 1985
Soft Cover. Many photographs in contents40th anniversary special Published by DREAMWEAVER MAGAZINES -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Map, NORTH BORNEO CAMPAIGN. June-July 1945
Paper. Colour. Different coloured arrows show troop movements in Brunei and Labuan Islandmap ww2. north borneo -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Map, BALIKPAPAN CAMPAIGN. July 1945
Paper. Basic colourLegend shows troop movements during the Campaignmap. balikpapan -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Map, TARAKAN CAMPAIGN. 1st May-21st June 1945
Paper, Basic colourLegend shows troop movements during the Campaign on Tarakan Island. -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Map, AITAPE-WEWAK CAMPAIGN. Nov 1944-Aug 1945
Paper, basic coloursLegend shows troop movements during the Campaignww2 aitape-wewak -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Map, BOUGAINVILLE CAMPAIGN. Nov 1944-June 1945
Paper, Basic coloursLegend shows troop movements during the Campaign -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Map, NEW BRITAIN CAMPAIGN. October 1944-July 1945
Paper. Basic coloursLegend shows troop movements during the Campaign -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Book, A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE SS 1923-1945
Paperback Author Andrew Mollo With an introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper First published by Macdonald and Jane’s Publishers 1976 This edition published by Sphere Books Ltd. New York 1980 ISBN 0 7221 6160 3 ss, germany 1930's ww2 -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Book, The Illustrated HITLER DIARY 1917-1945
Hard back with dust cover Edited by Stuart Laing Publisher Marshall Cavendish books ltd London 1980 ISBN 085685 863 3 -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Work on paper - 2/2 Battalion Aitape Wewak Campaign, 2/2 Battalion Aitape Wewak Campaign Jan-Aug 1945
Framed print-out of the adjacent map's storyDetails the story of the 2/2 Battalion in the Aitape Wewak campaign, and the story of its connection with the present owners -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Legal record - Conditions of Sale (C.E.Carter), Ringwood - Lots 1 & 2, Plan of Subdivision No 11956, J R Jamieson to Holeproof Ltd, 1945
Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Property , from Mr J R Jamieson to Holeproof Ltd -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood State School - Grade 5, 1945
Black and white photograph - Grade 5,1945."Attached to photograph" Back Row - L to R: Robert Mathieson, ?, Ken Reynolds, Glen Hubbard, ?. 2nd Row - L to R: ?, ?, Margaret Burns, ?, ?, Muriel Upstill, ?, ?, ?, ?. 3rd Row - L to R: May Burton, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Jeanette Burnside. Front Row - L to R: Ian Lynton, Neil Dark, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Barry Young. Teacher: -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood State School - Grade 3, 1945
Black and white photograph - Grade 3,1945."Attached to photograph" Back Row - L to R: ?, Brian Pump, Paul Divola, Stan McDonald, John Caird, Noel Deed, Peter Wigley, John Mathews. 2nd Row - L to R: Dawn McAlpine, ?, Marion Medhurst, ?, Julie Martin, Jennifer Parker, ?. 3rd Row - L to R: ?, ?, ?, Lrris Hill, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?. 4th Row _ L to R: Bill France, Desmond Stewart, Russell Read, John Wigley, Norman Wright, ?, Ted Polkinghorne, Andrew Rothney, Les Bomford. Front Row - L to R: Bill Wright,, ?, Brian Mallett, Cliff Mead, Ray Hager, Vernon Lee, Jack Wakeham, Karl Martin. Teacher: Added Sc0021 photo to "Media" and deleted VC entry 2154 on 14th June 2022. Sc0021 now with this Entry. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood State School - Grade 2, 1945
Black and white photograph - Grade 2,1945."Attached to photograph" Back Row - L to R: David Young, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, 2nd Row - L to R: ?, Margaret Blood, ?, ?, ?, Margaret Burnside, ?, Lois Crouch, Rosamund Pellow, Lynette Mathews. 3rd Row - L to R: ?, Margery Anderson, Janice Yobb, Beth Williams, Joyce Marshall, Agnes Young, Leah Kelly, ?, ?, ?. 4th Row, Kneeling - L to R: No names. Front Row - L to R: Neville Burns, ?, ?, Tom Hancy, Derek Duke, ?, ?, Bruce Caughey. Teacher: -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood State School - Grade 2, 1945
Black and white photograph - Grade 2,1945."Attached to photograph" Nil Teacher: -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Negative - Photograph, "The Barn", built by Jelbart, c.1945, 93 Arthur Street, Eltham, 1998c
Statement of Significance Last updated on - January 5, 2010 REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE, CONTEXT, 2010 What is significant? The c1950s Jelbart residence and the c1945 barn, the garden and the gate posts and the surrounding site to the extent of the title boundaries. How is it significant? The Jelbart house and barn are historically and architecturally significant to the Shire of Nillumbik. The garden and the gate posts are historically and aesthetically significant to the Shire of Nillumbik. Why is it significant? The Jelbart house and barn are historically significant because they are unusually large and because together they comprise one of the oldest groups of substantial mud brick buildings erected during the 20th century in the Shire of Eltham and foreshadow the large mud brick residences of the 1960s and 1970s for which the area is well known (Criteria A & B). The buildings are architecturally significant because their construction (using timber post framing and mud brick walling) is a characteristic feature of what became known as the 'Eltham style'- which was prevalent in the area during the mid and latter parts of the 20th century (Criteria D & A). The garden and the gate posts - The garden is historically significant because it is a remainder of a large holding of 200 acres associated with the house (Criterion A).The gate posts are historically and aesthetically significant because they were taken from a 19th-century Toorak mansion and because their removal and re-use illustrates the practice of recycling material from demolished buildings that was one of the characteristic features of 'Eltham-style' architecture (Criteria A, D & E).Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 8 strips and associated 10 x 15 cm colour printKodak Gold 100-5arthur street, eltham, jelbart barn -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - Black and White, Ballarat Junior Technical School Students and Staff (pre 1945)
The Ballarat Junior Technical School was part of Ballarat School of Mines. A large group photograph of the entire population of the Ballarat Junior Technical School staff and students. Principal A.W. Steane is in this photograph. He was principal from 1913-1944. The students are in uniform, including caps.ballarat junior technical school, ballarat school of mines, steane, uniform, cap, school, teacher, education -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document, Ballarat School of Mines Results for William Lindsay Meinhardt, 1945-7, 27/01/1948
Typed carbon copy of a letter from Ballarat School of Mines Principal, Dick Richards, listing William Lindsay Meinhardt's results for the Diploma of Civil Engineering. ballarat school of mines, engineering, civil engineering, william meinhardt, dick richards, r.w. richards -
Australian Commando Association - Victoria
Book, Silent Feet:The History of 'Z' Special Operations, 1942-1945
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Australian Commando Association - Victoria
Book, Victory in the Pacific 1945
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Australian Commando Association - Victoria
Book, The Private War of the Spotters: A history of the New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company, February 1942-April 1945
The history of the New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company. This reprinted version contains a map of the dispositions of Spotting Stations August 1943, additional MID awards listed and some additions to the nominal roll. The New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company was formed in Port Moresby in late January 1942 and was granted “Separate Independent Establishment” status in October 1943. The company’s “founding father” was Major Don Small, who had witnessed Japanese air raids on Rabaul and realised that having lacked an effective early-warning system around New Britain meant that the defenders were taken by surprise. At the time, gaps had also appeared in the coast-watching communications network because the territory administration ordered the withdrawal of civilian wireless operators when Japan entered the war. The first influx of men into the company consisted largely of volunteers from the 39th Infantry Battalion, which was stationed at Port Moresby. Initial training was rudimentary, hasty, and was sometimes even carried out on en route to a new station. The first party of company personnel, or “spotters”, left Port Moresby as early as 1 February 1942, bound for the strategically important Samarai area, at the tip of Papua. In the first month of the company’s existence 16 spotter stations were established on the coast of Papua and in the mountains around Port Moresby. At the end of 1942 there were 61 operational stations being run by 180 men. The company’s high-water mark was in late 1944, by which time over 150 stations had been set up in Papua and New Guinea behind enemy lines. On 3 February 1942 the company issued its first air warning in Papua, when spotters at Tufi saw Japanese aircraft about to attack Port Moresby for the first time. The following month the company was responsible for the first Japanese killed in action in Papua by Australian ground forces, when spotters from Gona engaged the crew of a downed Japanese bomber. And in July 1942 the station at Buna signalled Port Moresby with news of the Japanese landings in Papua, marking the beginning of the Kokoda campaign. The dangers involved in the company’s work had also been made clear by this time. In July 1942 a party of spotters attempting to set up a station at Misima Island, off Milne Bay, was intercepted by a Japanese destroyer, resulting in the company’s first operational losses. Anticipating the direction of the campaign as a whole, the company’s focus moved north and north-west over the three years of its existence. In May 1942 a network was set up in the Wau area in association with the activities of Kanga Force. As part of the Wau network, spotter Ross Kirkwood audaciously constructed an observation post overlooking the Japanese airstrip at Salamaua. Kirkwood’s position was photographed by Damian Parer on the understanding that the pictures would not be published. They nevertheless appeared in a Sydney newspaper. The day after the publication of the photographs the observation post was attacked by the Japanese and Kirkwood was lucky to escape. In June 1944 the company’s headquarters were moved to Nadzab. By that time, spotter stations existed behind Japanese lines, as far north as Hollandia, and the company began to train Americans to perform similar work in the Philippines. In early 1945 the company moved to Balcombe, Victoria, where its members were posted to other units of the Australian Corps of Signals.gray plasticnon-fictionThe history of the New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company. This reprinted version contains a map of the dispositions of Spotting Stations August 1943, additional MID awards listed and some additions to the nominal roll. The New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company was formed in Port Moresby in late January 1942 and was granted “Separate Independent Establishment” status in October 1943. The company’s “founding father” was Major Don Small, who had witnessed Japanese air raids on Rabaul and realised that having lacked an effective early-warning system around New Britain meant that the defenders were taken by surprise. At the time, gaps had also appeared in the coast-watching communications network because the territory administration ordered the withdrawal of civilian wireless operators when Japan entered the war. The first influx of men into the company consisted largely of volunteers from the 39th Infantry Battalion, which was stationed at Port Moresby. Initial training was rudimentary, hasty, and was sometimes even carried out on en route to a new station. The first party of company personnel, or “spotters”, left Port Moresby as early as 1 February 1942, bound for the strategically important Samarai area, at the tip of Papua. In the first month of the company’s existence 16 spotter stations were established on the coast of Papua and in the mountains around Port Moresby. At the end of 1942 there were 61 operational stations being run by 180 men. The company’s high-water mark was in late 1944, by which time over 150 stations had been set up in Papua and New Guinea behind enemy lines. On 3 February 1942 the company issued its first air warning in Papua, when spotters at Tufi saw Japanese aircraft about to attack Port Moresby for the first time. The following month the company was responsible for the first Japanese killed in action in Papua by Australian ground forces, when spotters from Gona engaged the crew of a downed Japanese bomber. And in July 1942 the station at Buna signalled Port Moresby with news of the Japanese landings in Papua, marking the beginning of the Kokoda campaign. The dangers involved in the company’s work had also been made clear by this time. In July 1942 a party of spotters attempting to set up a station at Misima Island, off Milne Bay, was intercepted by a Japanese destroyer, resulting in the company’s first operational losses. Anticipating the direction of the campaign as a whole, the company’s focus moved north and north-west over the three years of its existence. In May 1942 a network was set up in the Wau area in association with the activities of Kanga Force. As part of the Wau network, spotter Ross Kirkwood audaciously constructed an observation post overlooking the Japanese airstrip at Salamaua. Kirkwood’s position was photographed by Damian Parer on the understanding that the pictures would not be published. They nevertheless appeared in a Sydney newspaper. The day after the publication of the photographs the observation post was attacked by the Japanese and Kirkwood was lucky to escape. In June 1944 the company’s headquarters were moved to Nadzab. By that time, spotter stations existed behind Japanese lines, as far north as Hollandia, and the company began to train Americans to perform similar work in the Philippines. In early 1945 the company moved to Balcombe, Victoria, where its members were posted to other units of the Australian Corps of Signals.world war ii, special operations, new guinea, new guinea air warning wireless company -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood State School - Grade 6, 1945
Black and white photographNil