Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch Warrnambool, Victoria
Contact Information
- location
- 1 Artillery Crescent Warrnambool Victoria 3280
- phone
- +61 03 5562 4634
Contact
Opening Hours
Open daily from 10.00 am to 11.00 pm. To view items that are in storage, arrange an appointment with RSL Secretary, Bernie Farley on [email protected]
Entry Fee
Free entry.
Location
Cnr Merri & Liebig Streets Warrnambool Victoria
307 items
307 items
Mortar Site
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
The Mortar site assembly has a number of moving parts which all help with the firing of a Mortar.
Inscriptions & Markings
On a small brass plate the numbers are Part No MAA3612 Reg B8926. Other markings are Sight 3 in &SB 4.2 In Mortar MK 1 (Aust) DDC2124-2 No 1210
Boots Army - right boot
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
military boots black leather, front lacing with ten eyelets, mid calf length, rubber sole imprinted with ROSSI and 7/6 Rubber sole ROSSITERLTD FOOTWEAR Made in Australia, Black cotton laces.
Historical information
These boots were used by the military in Australia during period when there were no active conflicts.
Significance
Typical of boots worn by military personnel during the nineteen eighties.
Inscriptions & Markings
label. inside boot top. R251 with vertical arrow below (arrow indicates government ownership). On right 7/6, B69 below. On Rubber Sole, impressed lettering 'Rubber Sole ROSITER LTD FOOTWEAR made in Australia. 7,6 stamped on instep of sole
Book. Korea. - WITH THE AUSTRALIANS IN KOREA
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Hard Cover. Dark Blue Plain Front, Title/Editor on Spine Damaged Dust Cover inside front Cover (see Media DSCF6192.JPG)
Inscriptions & Markings
Editor Norman Bartlett Publisher Australian War Memorial Canberra ACT
Book - THE NAZI CONNECTION The Adventures of a Master Spy inside Hitler’s Germany
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Hard Cover with dust cover Harper & Row Publishers: 1978
Inscriptions & Markings
Author: F.W. Winterbottom, CBE
Book - AN AIRMAN FARAWAY The Story of an Australian Dam Buster
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Hardback with dust cover
Inscriptions & Markings
Author Eric Fry Publisher Kangaroo Press NSW: 1993 ISBN 0-86417 501 9 Dewey No. 940.54491
Light Bomb
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Light Weight bomb is made from 3 parts. The cylinder head section made of light steel screws onto the main body which is Aluminium and has a cylinder shape and screwed to the body section is a tin fin section
Historical information
Unknown
Inscriptions & Markings
Some what appears to be Japaness writing on the heads section
Great Coat
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Long khaki coloured heavy coat. Thick, sharp angled collars. Right collar has a hook and eye attached in the lapel split. Collar has zig zag stitching and two plastic buttons on each the left and right sides. Each shoulder has a lapel that is fastened with a plastic button. The coat is double breasted. Three buttons on the right side, held in place by metal loops on the interior rather than stiches; mirrored on the left side. Left interior has oval shaped fabric buttoned to the interior with two brown (possibly bakelite) buttons. A larger brown button sits atop the smaller as a means of closing the jacket from the inside. There are two pockets on the front that are angled with the highest point near the centre and the lowest point near the hips. The arms, underarm and upper back section contains an inside khaki coloured lining of thinner, most likely cotton fabric. Above this there is a thin strip of fabric attached at either short end to use for hanging the coat on a hook. At the back of the coat there is a single pleat stretching from the base of the neck to the base of the coat. Approximately half way down the pleat there is a split in the fabric that is fastened with two plastic buttons. At the waist there are two fabric flaps that fasten together at the back with three buttons, also held in place with metal loops on the reverse.
Inscriptions & Markings
Label on interior back lining reads "REGIMENTAL No./NAME" Label on interior of the right "GREATCOATS. G.S. 1946 Patt/SIZE 1/HEIGHT 5'3"/CHEST 34"-36"/BRADLEY'S INDUSTRIES N.S.W./1951" Handwritten on label, "M J Davis"
9 SNAPE FAMILY PHOTOS: The parents - John T. Snape and Rosina (née Cook) married Christmas Day 1890; the children- Bob (born 1892), Harold (born 1893) and Frank (born 1895); and Margaret ('Madge',née McLaughlin), Bob's wife (secretly married before Bob's embarkation); Cook family (maternal side) portrait; 'Belmiers', the family home in Barkly Street, Essendon, circa WW1 (then and now); Isobel Miers, the Snapes' favourite young cousin after whom the house was named. Uncle Robert Snape, coal-mining engineer, Wales.
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Sun Glasses
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
These Sun glasses have a greenish tint in the glass sections. The frame is silver and the arms that go to and around your ears flexible for comfort
Historical information
Used by pilots to help reduce sun glare
Book - ALL OUR YESTERDAYS How the newsreels saw them from Munich to the Berlin Airlift
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Hardback with dust cover
Inscriptions & Markings
From the famous Granada TV Series By Brian Inglis & Bill Grundy Orbis Publishing Ltd. London: 1964 ISBN 0 85613 1784
Fiction Novel - THE CRUISER
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Hard Cover with damaged Dust Cover
Historical information
Story of a Cruiser in WW2
Inscriptions & Markings
Author Warren Tute Publisher Cassell and Co Ltd London. No date.
Jumper
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Navy blue ribbed knitted jumper with stitched navy cotton elbow patches, rectangular in shape. Similar rectangular shaped patches on the left and right shoulder, bearing two epaulettes, stiched at one end and fastened with velcro and the other. The left shoulder carries an Airforce embroidered patch at the top of the arm. Arm cuffs have external seam for approximately 100 mm from the end, indicating that the jumper may have been worn with cuffs folded over. Synthetic strip of black fabric on the interior collar behind a cream coloured label.
Historical information
This jumper is part of a General Purpose Uniform issued by the Australian Airforce to Bernard Farley during service. This uniform type was developed in 2014 and replaced camouflage as the uniform worn during general base duties and in non-warlike environments. Although a camouflage pattern, this design is not intended for use as camouflage. This woolen jumper was presumably a winter addition to the GPU.
Significance
This item has social significance, as an item of uniform worn by Warrnambool RSL community member and Secretary (2019), Bernard Farley during service with the Australian Airforce. The item is a representative example of current Airforce General Purpose Uniform and is in excellent condition. As a set, the uniform has aesthetic significance in it’s design, incorporating GPU uniform design from the Army alongside the colours and motifs of the Australian Airforce.
Inscriptions & Markings
Label on interior of collar reads: “CALCOUP KNITWEAR/291083/ 06/01 / 8405/661468799 / SIZE: 115cm-125cm/SERVICE No........./ NAME........../MACHINE WASHABLE GENTLE CYCLE/Fasten shoulder straps before/washing. Warm machine wash,/inside out on medium cycle./Do not bleach./Warm rinse. Normal spin./Doi not tumble dry./Dry in shade. Warm iron./ Dry Cleanable A/80% Wool 20% Nylon”
AUSSIE: a 1920 A.W.M reprint of all the numbers of the Diggers' own paper of the battlefield. Wholly written, illustrtated and printed in the field by members of the A.I.F.
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Map - NEW BRITAIN CAMPAIGN. October 1944-July 1945.
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Paper. Basic colours
Inscriptions & Markings
Legend shows troop movements during the Campaign
Book. WW2. Personal Stories - ROUGH INFANTRY Tales of World War II
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Hardback with dust cover.
Inscriptions & Markings
Warrnambool Institute Press ISBN: 0 949759 05 8
Ground sheet
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Large square sheet constructed of biege/brown coloured water resistant material. 67mm hem folded over and sewn along all edges with brown stitching. Metal buttons are spaced at 200mm intervals along parallel edges, next to a button hole which can be used to attach to another ground sheet. Four corners bear a large round eyelet in silver-coloured metal in between three smaller eyelets; two of four corners have short lengths of brown cord attached to these eyelets. One corner has only two smaller eyelets surrounding the larger.
Historical information
Ground sheets such as this were typically used as rain protection by German troops. Two or more zeltbahn (ground sheets) could be attached together via the button holes to form a tent for two or more people. Some models of ground sheets, particularly those which are triangular in shape, could also be fashioned into personal raincoats worn by soldiers. Grounds sheets have also been known to have been used to wrap deceased bodies in prioir to burial.
Significance
This groundsheet, despite a lack of clear provenance, is a representative example of the types of ground sheets used by the German forces during wartime. The zeltbahn (ground sheet) also has social significance in that they were known to have been used to wrap deceased bodies in prior to burial.
Inscriptions & Markings
Printed in black ink in the centre of the sheet is the incriptions "OVS 1298."
Book - THE WORLD AT WAR. In Association with Thames Television
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Hard Cover with Dust cover
Inscriptions & Markings
Author: Mark Arnold-Forster William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd St James’s Place London: 1973
TRENCH MAP, 1:20,000 FRANCE. Sheet 36 NW. Edition 6 B. GSGS 2742. Ordnance Survey 1916. Trenches corrected to 5/5/1916.
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Home coming badge - Thomas Adams Collection
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Small badge no bigger than a twenty cent piece with a soldier standing in the middle holding a rifle
WW2. Australian Army - AUSTRALIA AT ARMS
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Hard Cover
Inscriptions & Markings
Edited By Norman Bartlett Published By Australian War Memorial Canberra
TIE - RAAF (Blue Grey) Service Dress Uniform Jacket - Military Uniform
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) 1A Service Dress Uniform - Tie (Blue blue). This uniform tie was worn in the period 1966 - 2001 as the primary uniform. Service Dress was approved for wear as either ceremonial dress or working dress when employed in office or business type environments. The tie was dark blue of medium width and has a tetron lining inside the wide end and no lining at the narrow end.
Significance
This item of military uniform was worn by Squadron Leader (SQNLDR) Bernard Farley during his period of Full Time service in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) between 27 January 1976 and 02 March 1997. Bernard joined the RAAF as an Airmen was trained and employed as a Clerk Supply (CLKSPL) between 1996 - 1977. He undertook officer cadet training at the Army Officer Cadet School in 1978 and was commissioned into the Ground Defence Category on the 09 December 1978, where he served for 18 years and rose to the rank of SQNLDR.
Inscriptions & Markings
Maker: unknown
FIVE 5 PHOTOS: BOB & HAROLD at the various stages of their War service: Bob as Stretcher Bearer with the 6th Field Ambulance and later as Confidential Clerk to General Sir John Monash, GOC Australian Corps; Harold as A/B Driver, R.A.NB.T. serving at Gallipoli and, later, as 2nd Lieutenant, 47th Battery, 12th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery. The image of Mother (Rosina Snape) and her two soldier boys was prominently displayed at home, on the mantle-piece.
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
PICTURE POSTCARDS, FRANCE, WW1 (280 approx)
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Book - CHURCHILL. A Biography
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch, Warrnambool
Hardback with dust cover
Inscriptions & Markings
Author Martin Gilbert Publisher Chancellor Press London: 1983 ISBN: 0 907486 27 4
