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  1. Account of the 2/30 Battalion AIF, Malaya, early 1942

    Private Record

    Maker: Unknown

    Collection relating to the experience of members of 2/30 Australian Infantry Battalion in Malaya in early 1942, comprising a black and white photocopy of a seven page typed manuscript. The name of the...

    PR01918

  2. Australia Service Medal : Gunner A W Glover, 4 Anti-Tank Regiment

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.

    REL32411.004

  3. British War Medal 1939-45 : Gunner A W Glover, 4 Anti-Tank Regiment

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.

    REL32411.003

  4. Dickinson, Keith Johnson

    Private Record

    Maker: Bashford, Frederick Hugh

    Collection relating to VX57167 Gunner Keith Johnson Dickinson who was a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Burma during the Second World War. It comprises 1 original typed 2 page letter dated 12 Septe...

    PR04822

  5. Field pocket watch : Captain Lionel Colin Matthews, 8 Division Signals

    Heraldry

    Maker: Elgin National Watch Company

    Defence issued nickel plated open faced field pocket watch in the Elgin National Watch Company pattern, although the movement lacks markings or serials. Features a black dial with gold numerals, leaf ...

    REL43145

  6. Folder 2 of 2 - Eyewitness account of the executions of Corporal Breavington and Private Gale, c.1942

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Unknown

    Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX621 Private Pierre Michael Walton, 8 Division Provost Company, including the period he was a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese, c. 1942. W...

    RCDIG0001290

  7. Germania furiosa 1943

    Art

    Maker: Toegel, Stanislaw Markiewicz, Antoni F W Dobereiner

    Satirical depiction of the actions of Germany in 1943 as a darkly humorous Wagnerian opera. At the centre is a large, blonde female opera singer. Symbolic of the SS she is wearing a pink toga and a st...

    ART96184.010

  8. Informal outdoor portrait of, left to right: VX38444 Gunner (Gnr) Aubrey Alfred Emmett; VX38445 ...

    Photograph

    Maker: Unknown

    Informal outdoor portrait of, left to right: VX38444 Gunner (Gnr) Aubrey Alfred Emmett; VX38445 Gnr Lancelot Leslie Gilbert; and VX38433 Gnr Frank Norman Emmett, all of 4 Anti Tank Regiment, and of Ou...

    P08333.001

  9. Informal outdoors portrait of 441014 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Stephen Patrick Cloake, an Air ...

    Photograph

    Maker: Davison Studio

    Informal outdoors portrait of 441014 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Stephen Patrick Cloake, an Air Gunner (AG) with 21 Squadron RAAF (note the AG badge worn above his left shirt pocket). On having first en...

    P10609.001

  10. Informal portrait of Dr Bernard Haselden Quin. Born in 1894 in Malvern, Victoria, Honorary ...

    Photograph

    Maker: Unknown

    Informal portrait of Dr Bernard Haselden Quin. Born in 1894 in Malvern, Victoria, Honorary Captain Quin was serving as Second Government Medical Officer on the Australian-administered island of Nauru ...

    P11558.001

  11. Jackson, Harry Melville (Sergeant, b.1893 - d.1916)

    Private Record

    Maker: Jackson, Harry Melville

    Collection relating to the service of 1766 Sergeant Harry Melville Jackson, 13 Battalion, Australia, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, 1915-1916. Collection consists of letters sent by Harry Jackson to his m...

    1DRL/0379

  12. ‘L'insurrezione di Milano’, Giovanni Fugalli, 1945 [includes postcards]

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Fugalli, Giovanni

    Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...

    AWM2021.22.107

  13. Manuscript of Chrisoula Borda, 1940-1945

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Borda, Chrisoula

    Manuscript relating to the Second World War internment of civilian Chrisoula Borda (nee Bochoyianaki). In her memoir manuscript, Chrisoula Borda tells the story of her life experiences between Octob...

    AWM2018.785.59

  14. Monument to those 50 officers who were shot

    Art

    Maker: Comber, Albert

    Depict a drawing of the Monument to those 50 officers who were shot after the break from Stalag Luft III.

    ART34781.022

  15. Pacific Star : Gunner A W Glover, 4 Anti-Tank Regiment

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    Pacific Star. Impressed on reverse with recipient's details.

    REL32411.002

  16. Painting '73

    Art

    Maker: Collins, Lynn

    Protest ikon featuring the well publicised image of the shooting of a Vietcong suspect by Saigon police rendered in an "art idiom" and placed in a commercial art world situation. The painting of the i...

    ART40874.004

  17. 418197 Pilot Officer (PO) Leslie Stewart, 21 Squadron RAAF. PO Stewart from Brighton, Victoria, ...

    Photograph

    Maker: RAAF Photographer

    418197 Pilot Officer (PO) Leslie Stewart, 21 Squadron RAAF. PO Stewart from Brighton, Victoria, enlisted on 25 April 1942 and was shot down and captured by the Japanese on 5 March 1944 and made a pri...

    P11152.010

  18. Pod murami getta w Warszawie...[Under the walls of the Ghetto in Warsaw...]

    Art

    Maker: Toegel, Stanislaw Markiewicz, Antoni F W Dobereiner

    Satirical portrait of two Ukrainian guards under the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto. Both are smoking and heavily armed with the Ukrainian coat of arms visible on the left sleeves of their uniform. In the...

    ART96183.006

  19. Presentation pocket Bible and lock of hair : Lieutenant L C Matthews, 8 Division Signals

    Heraldry

    Maker: Oxford University Press

    Pocket version of the Oxford University Press Holy Bible, bound in blue buckram and made with an extension to the rear cover which folds over the front cover and is secured by a metal snap fastener. T...

    REL43192

  20. Series 12 - Miscellaneous published magazines and books collected by Lieutenant John Desmond Peck, 1944-1991

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Mussolini, Benito Various

    Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine...

    AWM2021.22.45

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