The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Outdoor group portrait of members of the 2/23rd Battalion Carrier Platoon at Dimra, Palestine in January 1941. (Dimra was a small Arab village 11 kilometres north east of Gaza City.) Identified from left to right are: VX42266 Corporal (Cpl) John Leslie Johnson from Walwa, Victoria (killed in action on 17 May 1941) ; VX47693 Cpl Albert Charles Artis from Port Fairy, Victoria; VX32730 Cpl Albert Spink from Box Hill, Victoria (died of wounds on 22 April 1942 between Tobruk and Derna, Libya); VX48780 Captain Graham Grantham Anderson from Prahran, Victoria (died of wounds on 13 July 1942 in the First Battle of El Alamein, Egypt); VX42081 Sergeant (Sgt) Peter Richard Hook from Hay, Victoria (later awarded a Military Medal and promoted to Lieutenant); and VX21140 Sgt Alan Armytage Holdsworth from Gardiner, Victoria (killed in action on 22 July 1942 in First Battle of El Alamein.)
Outdoor group portrait of members of the 2/23rd Battalion Carrier Platoon on the beach near Dimra, Palestine in January 1941. (Dimra was a small Arab village 11 kilometres north east of Gaza City.) Id
Outdoor group portrait of members of the second 23rd Battalion Carrier Platoon on the beach near Dimra, Palestine in January 1941. (Dimra was a small Arab village 11 kilometres north east of Gaza City
Studio portrait of QX6815 Corporal (Cpl) Leslie Charles (Sandy) Plater, 2/15 Australian Infantry Battalion. A locomotive driver from Rosemount, Qld, Cpl Plater enlisted on 3 June 1940. On 8 July 1942,
The original grave of SX7239 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Phillip Pearce, 2/48 Battalion, of Watervale, SA, in El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. L/Cpl Pearce was killed in action on 31 October 1942, aged 30
Studio portrait of NX17914 Corporal (Cpl) Isaac Phillip Southall of Darlinghurst, NSW. An electric furnaceman before the war, Cpl Southall served in the Middle East with the 2/13 Battalion. He died on
Studio portrait of NX44341 Private (Pte) Albert Victor Tytherleigh, 2/13 Battalion, of Cardiff, NSW. Pte Tytherleigh enlisted in September 1941 and served in the Middle East. He was killed in action
