Images From The Australian War Memorial

A 6" anti-aircraft gun being oiled and tested ready for installation on a RAN vessel.

A FLICK OF THE WRIST REMOVES THE SPENT MAGAZINE, AND ANOTHER 30-ROUND MAGAZINE IS CLICKED HOME IN A FRACTION OF A SECOND.

A FLICK OF THE WRIST REMOVES THE SPENT MAGAZINE, AND ANOTHER 30-ROUND MAGAZINE IS CLICKED HOME IN A FRACTION OF A SECOND.

A display of Owen sub-machine guns, invented and manufactured in Australia, being transported on a truck in a procession through the streets of Sydney to show the immensity of the war effort in Australian munit More

A FORWARD OBSERVATION PATROL FROM C COMPANY, 2/1 INFANTRY BATTALION RESTING AFTER STRIKING LEVEL GROUND ONCE MORE. IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE:- PTE P.K. DUNLOP, BREN GUNNER (1); CPL J. SELLIN, OWEN GUNNER (2).

AITAPE-WEWAK SECTOR, NEW GUINEA. 1945-04-26. PTE R.F. GAUDRY 2/3 INFANTRY BATTALION, WITH AN OWEN GUN IN A FORWARD PIT AT KALIMBOA VILLAGE.

SAILORS TAKE COVER AROUND THE CONNING TOWER OF A GERMAN TYPE IXC SUBMARINE UNDER ATTACK FROM A VERY LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT (NOT IN THE PHOTOGRAPH). A DEPTH BOMB EXPLODES IN THE DISTANCE. NOTE THE TWO TWIN 2 CM FLA More

A4-173, a Caribou of the RAAF Transport Flight Vietnam (RTFV) nosed into the flight's first hangar on the Vung Tau airfield.

"AAS [Air Airmament School] Officers Group. E/Sale." "Everybody has to be photographed!" Back row, left to right:Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) C D Murphy; Flt Lt D C Hurst; Flt Lt K A Martin; Flt Lt T Butler; Flt More

Aachen, Germany. 1943-07-14. The central area of the town, with the West Goods Depot top left photographed by RAF reconnaissance after a bomber raid. Very many fires are still burning among a concentration of i More

Aachen, Germany. C. 1944-04. This reconnaissance photograph of Aachen, taken five months before the great assault on the city from the ground, shows vividly the damage caused by the attacks of RAF Bomber Comman More

Aachen, Germany. C. 1944-04. The main railway station and railyards at Aachen on 1944-04-05 after the attacks of RAF Bomber Command between 1943-07 and 1944-04.

Aachen, Germany. C. 1944-04. The Post Office, telephone exchange and commercial buildings at Aachen in 1944-04-05 after the attacks of RAF Bomber Command between 1943-07 and 1944-04.

Aachen, Germany. C. 1944-04. The Town Hall and public administrative buildings in Aachen on 1944-04-05 following the attacks of RAF Bomber Command between 1943-07 and 1944-04.

Aalesund, Norway. 1945-03-17. A very large force of RAF Coastal Command Mosquito aircraft attacked enemy shipping in the harbour. The aircraft left five out of six vessels on fire or smoking. A heavily armed me More

A222052 Aircraftman (AC) Alexander William (Bill) Rowe, of Liverpool, NSW, an electrical fitter with No 9 Squadron working on an electrical panel from an Iroquois helicopter.

Loss of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, 10 December 1941: Photograph taken from a Japanese aircraft during the initial high-level bombing attack. The battlecruiser Repulse, near the bottom of the view, ha More

AWM Caption: This is a British poster depicting a rear-gunner in a Lancaster bomber. A second aircraft is seen flying at left. Added to the slogan 'Savings is everybody's war job' are the words 'Post Office Sav More

German Luftwaffe pilot Erbo Graf von Kageneck, holder of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, standing in front of his Messerschmitt Me 109E in Sicily, Italy, whilst being assisted by two groun More

A burning LCT (Landing Craft, Tank) TLC5 No. 121 near the beach after the raid by allied (mostly Canadian) air, naval and land forces on german defences. Churchill tanks and bodies of allied servicemen are pict More

Landing of French troops in Moudros (Lemnos island) Français : Débarquement de troupes françaises à Moudros (île de Lemnos)

AWM caption : "TORPEDO GUN BOAT HMS BOOMERANG (EX HMS WHITING) SHOWING HER STARBOARD SIDE. BOOMERANG WAS ONE OF SEVEN WARSHIPS SUPPLIED AND MANNED BY THE ROYAL NAVY AS AN AUXILIARY SQUADRON FOR THE DEFENCE OF A More

Photograph of South Australian colonial gunboat HMCS Protector. AWM Caption: PORT ADELAIDE, SA. c 1900. PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE GUNBOAT HMCS PROTECTOR OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN NAVY. SHE SERVED IN CHINA DURING THE More

AWM caption : Western Front. October 1918. A German Army anti-tank gun with its crew behind the shield ready to fire at advancing British Army tanks. Comment : This appears to show an Austro-Hungarian Skoda 75 More

Part of AWM caption : Informal portrait of Fregattenkapitän Karl August Nerger, Commander of the German armed merchant raider, SMS Wolf, standing on the bridge of the SMS Wolf, dressed in tropical whites.

Part of AWM caption : Six unidentified sailors prepare to fire a 15 cm (5.9 inch) gun on board the German armed merchant raider, SMS Wolf. The gun was hidden under sheets of canvas when not in use and the raide More

From AWM caption : A group of unidentified sailors surround a 15cm (5.9 inch) gun on the deck of the German armed merchant raider, SMS Wolf. The gun was hidden under sheets of canvas when not in use and the rai More

Part of AWM caption : Unidentified sailors fire a torpedo aboard the German armed merchant raider, SMS Wolf.

A German Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf J medium tank negotiating a river crossing in central Europe during WWII. This tank has a main armament of with a 50mm L/42 main gun. (Australian War Memorial 044596). A Germa More

The U.S. escort carrier USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) prepares to launch Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighters of composite squadron VC-5 during the Battle off Samar on 25 October 1944. The aircraft visible on the left are More

8811 Driver (Dvr) John Oliver Baird, 4th Australian Motor Transport Company and two unidentified soldiers in a Thornycroft lorry, serial number 51898. A kookaburra (probably a company emblem) is also painted o More

ID number: P09576.001 Photographer: unknown Place: South Australia Eileen Champion bid farewell to her fiancée, 47 Private (Pte) Thomas Whyte, in late 1914. In their short time apart their minds rarely strayed More

ID Number: C01419 Gallipoli Peninsula , 25 April 1915 A boatload of http:///units/unit_11193.asp soldiers leaving the transport ship HMT Galeka on their way to land at Anzac Cove. Rights Info: No known copyrig More

ID Number: OG2824 Maker: John Thomas Harrison Place made: Halmahera Islands, Morotai 'Ferdie', the Pygmy Flying Phalanger, is on active service with a famous RAAF Spitfire squadron. He belongs to O35898 Flying More

ID number: H13497 Photographer: Deutsche Reichsarchiv Place: Unknown A German observation balloon fitted with a long distance camera about to ascend with one observer in the basket. The observer's escape parach More

ID number: H13483 Photographer: Deutsche Reichsarchiv Place: Unknown A German soldier jumping from his observation balloon. German observers followed this procedure when their balloon was attacked by Allied air More

ID number: P08160.005 Photographer: Unknown Place: Italy: Brindisi Inscription reads "Air Mines at Air Sheds." Part of a collection of images belonging to a crew member on HMAS Huon during the First World War.( More

ID Number:P00156.031 Cairo, Egypt. A corporal, probably on the staff of the 2nd Australian general hospital, holds a koala, a pet or mascot. Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is More

ID Number: DA08570 Maker: Darge Photographic Company Broadmeadows, Victoria, Australia Studio portrait of a child dressed in military uniform, possibly the son of Private Eldershire. Rights Info: No know More

ID Number: DAAV00005 Maker: Darge Photographic Company Place made: Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Point Cook Date made: c 23 March 1916 Unidentified men watch an aircraft land. This is one of a seri More

ID number: E00755 Photographer: Unknown Australian Official Photographer Place: Belgium: Western Front (Belgium), Ypres Area, Dickebusch View of a Royal Flying Corps observation balloon, fully inflated on the g More

ID number: E01125 Photographer: Unknown Australian Official Photographer Place: Belgium: Western Front (Belgium), Ypres Area, Ypres An observation balloon above the ruins of Ypres. Rights Info: No known copyrig More

ID number: E01278 Photographer: Unknown Australian Official Photographer Place: Belgium: Western Front (Belgium), Ypres Area, Ypres A balloon of the 15th Kite Balloon Section about to ascend at Cafe Belge in th More

ID Number: E04142 Place made: Solre-le-Chateau, France Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection E04142

ID number: 001223 Date: 31 March 1940 Sydney, New South Wales: Unidentified sailor from HMAS Perth and his family. Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memor More

ID number: 005297 Photographer: Hurley, James Francis (Frank) Date: 26 December 1940 Place: North Africa: Western Desert, Libya, Cyrenaica, Bardia Area, Bardia A quick shave between busy moments during the acti More

ID number: 006848 Photographer: Silk, George Date: March 1941 Able Seaman Cooper of HMAS Perth, showing off his beard. Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Me More

ID Number: 008196 Maker: Damien Peter Parer Khiam. The man with the donkey, 1941 version. Pte. D.W. Jones (NX15179) of Carlton N.S.W. and "C" company the 2/33 battalion. One of the men responsible for runn More

ID Number: 013225 Maker: John Earl (Earl) McNeil An American soldier at an advanced allied base, with his pet kangaroo Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War M More

ID number: 008931 No date. 1939 - 1945 The army officer's uniform is critically examined in the Army Inspection Department. All products of the Commonwealth Government Clothing Factory are examined in the fac More

ID Number: 136390 Maker: Herald Newspaper Melbourne, Victoria A nurse entertaining babies on a mattress under a table at the Camberwell babies home during an air raid practice. Rights Info: No known copy More

ID Number: 136911 Maker: Herald Newspaper Melbourne, Victoria. Members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) give "eyes right" as they pass the saluting base during the Service Womens march throu More

138386 http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/138386 Melbourne, VIC. 31 March 1943 A female from the crowd, carried away with excitement, kisses a member of the 9th Australian Division during the unit march thro More

NX25641 Private (Pte) Albert George Denovan, of Sydney NSW, http:///units/unit_11402.asp, a former prisoner of war (POW) is reunited with relatives at the showground. After moving through processing by recruit More

ID number: 092222 Place made: Morotai Date made: 16 May 1945 Private F. Simmonds, Australian Army Medical Women's Service, 2/5 General Hospital, in her spare time, uses a diminutive sewing machine to sew bor More

A member of the WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force) kissing a policeman during the Victory Pacific celebrations in the city. Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the More

Pilot Officer (PO) Robert Lindsay Wallace of Haberfield, NSW, was married to WAAF Corporal Alice Patricia Williams of London, at Christ Church, Woburn Square. PO Wallace, an airgunner, met his wife who is a WAA More

Sydney, NSW. 1919. A wounded AIF soldier receives an affectionate welcome home at the Anzac Buffet in The Domain. Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memoria More

ID Number: E01882 Place made: France: Nord Pas de Calais, Pas de Calais, Savy An accident on Savy Aerodrome during the German offensive. A powerful factor in weakening the German thrust across the old Somme b More

ID number: E01260 Photographer: Hurley, James Francis (Frank) Place: Belgium: Western Front (Belgium), Ypres Area, Ypres An observation balloon making an ascent near Ypres to 'spot' for the artillery operating More

An outdoors group portrait of unidentified members of supply details of the Australian Mounted Division.

April - October 1918 Studio portrait of ex-Prisoner of War (POW) 3060 Private (Pte) Eric Ernest McLean, 16th Battalion, from Digby, Victoria and his wife Ann, nee MacPherson. Pte McLean enlisted on 23 July 1915 More

ID Number: A03678 Place made: Hurdcott, England Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection A03678

ID number: P04040.003 Photographer: Unknown Date Made: Unknown Melbourne, Port Melbourne: Studio portrait of an unidentified child dressed in a sailor suit. The child leans on a post, reminiscent of a mast, More

ID number: P05382.013 Photographer: Unknown Place made: At sea Date made: c 1915 Australian nursing sisters sitting in deck chairs and sewing on board the hospital ship HMAT Karoola. The sign behind them in More

ID Number: G00918 Maker: http:///people/20388.asp Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 26 April 1915. Australian artillerymen dragging guns into position after the landing at Anzac. By 6 p.m. on the first evening More

ID Number: G00907 Maker: http:///people/20388.asp Gallipoli, Plugge's Plateau, 25 April 1915 Australian troops going into action across Plugge's Plateau after the landing on 25 April. Men in front may be s More

ID Number: P01016.004 Gallipoli Peninsula, 25 April 1915 Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, awaiting orders from the southern edge below Plugges Plateau. Colonel Dobbin is in the cent More

Australian gunners of the 9th Field Battery operating the Number 4 18-pounder field gun at M'Cay's Hill, Anzac, 19 May 1915, during the Battle of Gallipoli.9th Field Battery were in 3rd Field Artillery Brigade More

ID number: E01174 Photographer: Unknown Australian Official Photographer Place: Belgium: Western Front (Belgium), Ypres Area, Ypres Australian soldiers watching the ascent of an observation balloon over Ypres. More

Australian Mounted Divisional train, using horse and waggon transport on the Jerusalem Road in Palestine

Australian Mounted Division train between Nazareth and Tiberias

ID number: P06960.001 Photographer: unknown Place: Gallipoli Members of the Australian War Records Section (AWRS) photographic team with their 12 inch by 12 inch field camera. Rights Info: No known copyright re More

ID Number: D00435 Maker: Unknown Place made: United Kingdom: England, Minchinhampton Date made: March 1919 Australian S.E.5A fighter aeroplanes (serials B127; D351 and F9075) of No. 6 (Training) Squa More

U.S. Air Force Colonel Royal N. Baker (left), commander of the 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing and jet flying ace with 13 aerial victories, shows the Australian Minister for Air, the Honourable William McMahon, t More

ID Number: HOBJ2661 Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver Place made: Korea Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection HOBJ2661

ID Number: HOBJ1777 Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver Place made: North Korea Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection HOBJ1777

ID Number: HOBJ2681 Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver Place made: Korea Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection HOBJ2681

ID Number: HOBJ2647 Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver Place made: Korea Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection HOBJ2647

ID Number: H19100 Harefield, England. Taken during the First World War An Australian nurse at No 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital about to feed their pet kangaroo Jimony. Rights Info: No known copyright restric More

ID number: 001229 Date made: 31 March 1940 HMAS Perth. Unidentified family group. Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection Persistent U More

ID Number: HOBJ2659 Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver Place made: Korea Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection HOBJ2659

ID Number: HOBJ2664 Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver Place made: Korea Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection HOBJ2664

ID Number: HOBJ2670 Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver Place made: Korea Date made: c November 1951 He is possibly either 24835 Sergeant Gordon Curley, or 2400213 Corporal Thomas John Curley, or 2400518 P More

ID Number: HOBJ2667 Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver Place made: Korea Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection HOBJ2667

ID Number: HOBJ2662 Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver Place made: Korea Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection HOBJ2662

ID number HOBJ3239 Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver Place made: Korea Date made: c June 1952 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection

ID Number: HOBJ3242 Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver Place made: Korea Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection HOBJ3242

ID number: J04896 Photographer: Walter Dexter Place: unknown A ghostly figure of a soldier stands next to the silhouette of an artillery piece. Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is f More

ID number: 112314 Photographer: Unknown Date: 18 July 1945 Place: At Sea A group of bearded soldiers aboard HMAS Hobart. Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War More

Bomber Crew by Stella Bowen. This painting is a portrait of the crew of a No. 460 Squadron RAAF Lancaster Bomber. Bowen sketched the crew on the day that they set out for a raid against Germany during which the More

An informal group portrait of well known Light Horsemen, outside a dugout on the right of the Australian position. Identified from left to right: Lieutenant Oliver Hogue (Trooper Bluegum) (later Major and died More

A01000 Gallipoli, Anzac Beach, 25 April 1915 Boats carrying troops to shore on the morning of the Anzac Cove landing. General Bridges is in foreground. Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This phot More

Brigadier-General Granville de Laune Ryrie (middle), Commanding Officer (CO) of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade, enjoys a bathe in the Dead Sea wearing his hat. Two unidentified officers wade either side of Brigad More

Brigadier General Ryrie, General Officer Commanding, 2nd Australian Light Horse Brigade, mounted on his horse at Richon le Zion (Richon) Rest Camp, in Palestine

ID Number: 136305 Maker: Herald Newspaper Melbourne, Victoria A schoolboy from the Ascot Vale Public School proudly displays camouflage nets made by his fellow pupils. Rights Info: No known copyright res More

NAVY18156 Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Garden Island (Sydney) 11 October 1968 The RAN guided missile destroyer HMAS Hobart has arrived back at Garden Island, NSW, after completing its second deployment t More

ID : G00250 Photographer: Ernest Brooks Place Made : Dardanelles, Gallipoli "Are we downhearted?" The mascot cat of the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth located off the shores of Gallipoli Peninsula, strolls ligh More

ID: C02235 Photographer: Unknown Place: Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Marmara, Chanak, Gallipoli Peninsula Ensconced in an opening in a sandbagged dugout, a cat, probably a regimental mascot, looks up expectantly at More

ID: P02790.031 Photographer unknown Place: on board HMAS Melbourne An informal portrait of Able Seaman Raymond Stewart Haig, on board HMAS Melbourne, holding two ship's cats. Rights info: no known copyright res More