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Bendigo Military Museum
Certificate - OFFICER SCROLL, 31..3.1943
Capt Warick Rosenthal No TX6321 AAMC. Refer Cat No ‘s 622.3, 775.Embossed scroll on parchment paper in black lettering re the appointment of Warick Rosenthal to be an Officer of the Active Citizen Military Forces of the commonwealth from the 13th Day of October 1942.documents, certificates, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Headwear - CAP, PEAKED RAAF
Item issued to Robert George Bennetts. Refer 560.3 for service history.Peaked cap, blue with RAAF brass cap badge. Size 6 7/8. Black outer headband, narrow black plastic front strap secured with small brass buttons at either end. Tan inner headband with clear plastic top lining.Marked inside:"MTX size 6 7/8 A↑F Made in Australia 36088 RAAF Bennetts"raaf, headwear, peak caps -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPHS WW1, Post 2000
.1) GEORGE EDWIN WRIGHT No 825 G Coy 7th Batt AIF, KIA. CHARLES WRIGHT No 5241, 16th R's 6th Batt AIF, KIA. Refer 780 for their service details plus brother Thomas Wright "MM" also 1227P. .1) Copy of black & white photo, full length portrait of soldier GEORGE WRIGHT in uniform. .2) Copy of black & white photo, full length portrait of soldier CHARLES WRIGHT in uniform, wearing webbing..1) In print below photo: GEORGE WRIGHT .2) In print below photo: CHARLES WRIGHT photography - hotographs, military history, aif, mm -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - GRAVE PHOTOGRAPH, Post WW1
John George Duncan Mcinnes Regt No 5736 - 59th Batt A.I.F Died of Bronco Pneumonia in the Field 31.12.1916. Refer 785P for his service history also 782.2.Photograph on yellow card backing of the grave of McINNES, John George Duncan.war graves, photographs, ww1 aif -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, NZ VC, Kenneth Sandford, Mark of the Lion-The Story of the New Zealand War Hero Captain Charles Upham VC and Bar, 1990
ISBN 0-0996-4430-4. Item in the Frank Dean collection.399 page, cut edged, paperback book with B&W photos. Cover has a photo of Capt Upham in uniform and one of a Victoria Cross. Title is yellow on a red background in upper left corner."Frank Dean"books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Tom Henling Wade et al, Prisoner of the Japanese From Changi to Tokyo, 1994
... Bendigo Military Museum 37 - 39 Pall Mall Bendigo ...186 page cut edged paperback book with B&W photos, drawings and maps. Front cover has drawing of the inside of a POW hut with Japanese characters beneath. Top left has a large Japanese sun symbol, bottom right has B&W photo of a British officer"John W Toon OAM 8th Div AASC" "Donated by Bendigo YMCA"books- military history, internment - japan -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Gwynedd Hunter-Payne, On the Duckboards-Experiences of the other side of war, 1995
... Bendigo Military Museum 37 - 39 Pall Mall Bendigo ...220 page, cut paged softcover book with B&W illustrations. Front cover has B&W picture of nurses in a hospital with oval shaped photo of soldiers lying on the ground inset behind the title. back cover has block printing with small B&W photo of nurses. Black print on spine.Handwritten in blue "John W Toon OAM Ex POW 8th Div" Handwritten in black "Donated by Bendigo YMCA" Stamped on front flyleaf "Bendigo District RSL Sub Branch Inc PO Box 449 Bendigo Central 3552" books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Cheater Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe-An Essential Companion to the Churchill Memoirs, 1954
Published by Richard Clay and Company by arrangement with WM Collins, Sons & Co Ltd.848 page, cut edged hardcover book with dust cover and black and royal blue illustrations. Cover is royal blue buckram with red squares on spine and gold printing on spine and cover. Dust cover is has white text over B&W photo of clouded sky and aeroplanes.Handwritten in blue "Donated by Mr & Mrs J_ab_h_air" (name is unclear). Stamped in black "Bendigo District RSL Sub Branch Inc PO Box 449 Bendigo Vic 3552"books, military history, european war -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Maj Gen David Belchem CB CBE DOS, All in the Day's March, 1978
ISBN 0-0021-1368-6320 page, cut edged hardcover book with dust cover, illustrated with maps and B&W photos. Cover is brown buckram with gold writing on spine. Dust cover is black with orange title, gold and white subtext and sepia image of Field Marshall Montgomery and the author."Mrs May Hall"books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Richard Collier, 1941, 1981
ISBN 0-2411-0611-7Illustrated hardcover book with dust cover. Cover is black buckram with no wording. Dust cover has large B&W photo of St Paul's Cathedral in London, surrounded by smoke. Title is in large red text at top with author's name in white at bottom.Inside cover "RR Schiller" Flyleaf "Ivo Barrow Thurs 28.8.86" "[Mary Martin Aug 86 Booklist-B043-$2.00]"books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK WW2, Anthony Richardson, Wingless Victory, 1954
... Bendigo Military Museum 37 - 39 Pall Mall Bendigo ...Turquoise buckram hardcover, 287 pages on plain cut edged paper. Title in black on paper attached to spine.Handwritten in black on front flyleaf "Donated by K Proud" Bendigo RSL stamp on front flyleaf.books, military history, escape -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Iain Finlay, Savage Jungle, 1991
Designed by Helen Semmler, typeset by Best Set Typesetters, Honk Kong.Black hardcover with white print. Dust cover has colour photo of jungle foliage and title in white and gold. 438 pages with illustrations.books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Alken Press Pty Ltd, Kill the Prisoners, 1995
... Bendigo Military Museum 37 - 39 Pall Mall Bendigo ...Soft cover book with red and white cover and title in white. 392 pages with black and white photos and honour roll at end."(illegible name) 97"books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Queensland Ex-POW Repatriation Committee, Nippon Very Sorry - Many Men Must Die, 1990
... Bendigo Military Museum 37 - 39 Pall Mall Bendigo ...Black buckram hardcover with title and text in gold on cover. 123 pages with illustrations.FIn pen "Donated by Bgo YMCA"books, military history, japan -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Hyland House Publishing Pty Ltd, Hard To Go Bung. WWII Soldier Settlerment in Victoria 1945 - 1962, 1992
... Bendigo Military Museum 37 - 39 Pall Mall Bendigo ...Cover - hard cover with dust cover, gold print on spine, green coloured buckram, 254 pages, cut pages plain. Black & white photos and illustrations, dust cover red and dark green print, illustrations and photographs in black & white, sepia, orange & green. Maps on end papers frond and back.Handwritten in blue ink on front fly leaf.; Kevin Coughlin 3 McDonald Crescent Bendigo Vic 3550books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, The Fairfax Library, Hurley at War, 1986
Dust jacket has a plastic cover. Book documents the photographs of Frank Hurley taken during WWI and WWII.Hard black cover with title in white. Illustrated dust jacket front and back. Title on spine, 160p. Page edges cut. Colour & Black & white Illustrations.books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, James Yeates, From Gippsland to El Alamein, 1994
... Bendigo Military Museum 37 - 39 Pall Mall Bendigo ...Soft covered paperback. Yellow cover with title, brown. Illustration on front, title on spine. Black and white illustrations. 174p, page edges cut. Bendigo and District RSL stamp on inside of front cover.books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, 2/31 Australian Infantry Battalion Association, Forever Forward, 1994
... Bendigo Military Museum 37 - 39 Pall Mall Bendigo ...Documents the history of the 2/31st Australian infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF 1940-45.Black hard cover with title in gold on spine. Dust jacket illustrated front and back. Title on spine 333p. Maps and black & white illustrations. Page edges cut. Returned and Services League - Memorial Hall Bendigo stamp on inside front cover.books-military-history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - SET OF BOOKS, Sir John Hammerton, The Second Great War - 9 Volumes, 1946
... Bendigo Military Museum 37 - 39 Pall Mall Bendigo ...All volumes are of buckram hard cover, colour maroon. In the centre are the letters BWC embossed into the cover. Gold writing on the spine. .1) Volume 1. Pages 1-400 illustrated with photos and maps up to 1939 A.D. .2 ) Volume 2. Pages 401-816 illustrated photos and maps, years 1939-1940. .3) Volume 3. Pages 817-1240 illustrated photos and maps, years 1939-1940. .4) Volume 4. Pages 1241-1636 illustrated photos and maps, years 1940-1941. .5) Volume 5 Pages 1637-2096 illustrated photos and maps, years 1941-1942 .6) Volume 6 Pages 2091-2588 illustrated photos and maps, years 1942. .7) Volume 7 Pages 2589-3084 illustrated photos and maps, years 1943-1944. .8) Volume 8 Pages 3085-3576 illustrated photos and maps, years 1944-1945. .9) Volume 9 Pages 3577-4076 illustrated photos and maps, years 1945.books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - SET OF BOOKS, Odhams Press Limited, 1) My Early Life; .2) Great Contempories; .3) Step by Step, 1) -.3) Reprinted 1948
... Bendigo Military Museum 37 - 39 Pall Mall Bendigo ...3. Volume set. Autobiography by Winston Churchill; red cloth covers. Titles in gold on black panels. .1) 373 pages, plain, illustrated, black and white photographs. .2) 309 pages, plain, illustrated, black and white photographs. .3) 350 pages, plain, illustrated, map..1) - .3) Handwritten blue ink on title page "J.M. Coglin Feb 16th, 1949". .2) Handwritten blue ink on title page "Ralph ????ling Strathmore Loddon Vale"books, biography, military history -
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Photograph - PHOTOGRAPHS, RAAF, c.1939-45
Items belonged to Maxwell Lennox Matheson No 418447 RAAF. Refer Cat No 1959 for his service records.Envelope containing 5 photos: .1) 1P Auro Anson T.1 - Fuselage number W2083 .2) 2P Laverton RAAF Base B&W c.1938 Bunch of Airmen marching past Hawker demons .3) 3P North American b&w RAAF P51 Mustang Number A68-585 .4) 4P Airspeed 'Oxford' b&w Fuselage Number V3354 .5) 5P Blue print 'Wirraway' Fighter/Bomber.1) 3 Lines description on rear. RAF Aircraft issued to RAF .2) Laverton RAAF Base C1938 & 2 lines about Hawker Demons & Auro Ansons .3) 5 lines about history of P51 & No 84 Sqn 1945 .4) Rear inscription 4 historical lines about AIirspeed Oxfords .5) Front inscription on blue print: Wirraway' as a General Purpose Trainer Aircraft No A70-98 Wirraway' as a Dive Bomber Aircraft No A20-754photography -photographs, raaf -
Bendigo Military Museum
Currency - CURRENCY, VARIOUS, C.1930 - 40 ‘s
Items souvenired by J.C.W. LEDEUX, refer Cat No 2378 for his service details.Collection of Dutch & Japanese currency: .1) - .2) “1 Yen” .3) “50” .4) .5) “Dutch East Indies 1943 note”numismatics - notes, military history - souvenirs, currency, japanse, dutch -
Bendigo Military Museum
Administrative record - IDENTITY CARDS WW2, 2) 02.06.1944
Items in the collection re J.C.W.LEDEUX, refer Cat No 2378 for his service details.2 Identity Cards issued to members of the LEDEUX Family. They are civilian registration cards for British Subjects, made of light brown card printed in black ink..1) Written in front in ink: “LEDEUX / John Claude William / Rushworth” .2) “ Rose Christina Ledeux / Moora Road / Ruthworth” .2) Is endorsed: Ration Books for two childrendocuments - cards, military history - identification, civilian -
Bendigo Military Museum
Footwear - SANDSHOES, C.1960’s
Items issued to Wayne Forbes 3176337 1 Field Sqd RAE. Refer Cat No 754 for service history also 2586.Pair of canvas sand-shoes, white with black toe caps and sides, part of kit issued to recruits."size 8"uniforms - army, footwear, sandshoes -
Bendigo Military Museum
Footwear - BOOTS, BLACK, 1956
Army issue name was “Boots AB” Item in the collection re “Maj A.J.Balsillie MBE”. Refer Cat No 118.5 for his service details, RSL and Council history.Pair of black leather boots size 9, steel heel + toe caps, leather laces.“9 - m - XL” on outer sole each. ‘242” on on inside outer top each.uniforms - military, costume - male footwear, boots -
Bendigo Military Museum
Uniform - KHAKI JUMPER, 1978
Item issued to Anthony Robert Cornelius. Refer 1874.2 for his service historyArmy issue V neck long sleeved woolen jumper 1968, khaki, knitted fabric jumper long sleeves, V neck, epaulette slotted button holes on shoulder.“Wylmah, Vic,1978 8405 - 66. 024-7645 / size 38 / service no......./name ......”uniform- male/female, jumpers -
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Headwear - CHIN STRAP, 1960’s
Item issued to “Maj Andrew John Balsillie MBE” Refer Cat No 118.5 for his service details and RSL, Council history.Leather chinstrap for a slouch hat with bronze adjuster.uniforms - army, costume - male headwear, chin strap -
Bendigo Military Museum
Souvenir - SHARK TOOTH, 1900-2000
Item relates to Gilbert Turner MM, No 1410 45th Batt AIF. Refer Cat No 1038 for his service details.Shark tooth with serrated edges natural history specimens - icthyology, sharks, teeth -
Bendigo Military Museum
Equipment - GLOVES RAAF, C.1939 - 45
Items issued to Maxwell Lennox Matheson No 418447 RAAF. Refer Cat No 1959 for his service history.Pair off silk lined gloves for air crew's leather gloves. .1) Cream coloured fine woven fabric left hand glove. .2) Cream coloured fine woven fabric right hand glove.uniforms airforce, costume accessories - glove accessories -
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Souvenir - PENNANT MOROTAI, 1945
Item souvenired by Cpl H Bacon while on Morotai.Triangular blue felt pennant with text "Greetings from AIF Morotai NEI 1945", two blue stars and a circular tropical harbour scene with battleship and palm trees. Left side is reinforced and has two loops for hanging.flags-events, military history-souvenirs, morotai