The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
As seen from Suda village. The 2/2nd and 2/3rd Australian Field Regiments held positions on the outskirts of Suda during the German parachutists attack. Suda figures prominently in the defence of Crete; many troops were landed here from Greece and the Germans made determined attacks by parachutists on it. The British Navy suffered heavily in Suda Bay while defending the island and one cruiser, two destroyers and a dozen or so smaller craft were disabled and left there.
Described in the Official War History as Heraklion, it was one of the points at which the German air-borne attacks were made on Crete. At Heraklion the 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion, while attac
One of the ports in Crete at which survivors from Greece landed, including a boat-load of Australians. Heavy fighting took place for the town and determined attacks by German paratroops were repulsed.
This painting depicts the Battle of Retimo in Crete. A large part of the Allied force evacuated from Greece at the end of April 1941 was disembarked on Crete in order that the ships could return quick
The Australian positions were on extreme top right of picture, the meteorological station at hight point at left. In the depression running up the centre of the scene was a cornfield in which the Germ
During the movement of some 58,000 troops from North Africa to Greece, an Italian fleet ventured to strike at the convoy route. Pre-warned, three British and an Australian cruiser (HMAS Perth) of the
'Drawing with my Father’s Photos' is a series of works by Denise Green where sliced slivers of drawings of meandering, intricate marks intersect black and white wartime photographs. The photographs we
