The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a portrait of Corporal Geoffrey John Walter Bingham (NX51770), DCM, 8 Division signals. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at Singapore.
Bingham was awarded his Distinguished Conduct Medal along with 5 other soldiers for bravery during the Malaya campaign. The wireless detachment that Bingham was in charge of became cut off for 5 days when the brigade was overwhelmed by superior enemy forces. Two AIF battalions went forward to re-establish the situation. Throughout this action Bingham and Signaller Maxwell Alfred Benoit (VX32772) operated their set continuously under heavy fire and air attacks improvising equipment to ensure communication was maintained. Their efforts enabling command to gain valuable information and continue to transmit orders and instructions. Benoit was wounded 3 times and remained at his post to assist Bingham. He was awarded the Military Medal for his courage under fire. The bravery awards were announced in Australian newspapers on 10th March 1942.
Bingham survived the war and was discharged on 27th November 1945.
Depicts a portrait of Sergeant Geoffrey Cyril Bingham (NX32437), 8 Division Signals. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. After his liberation, Bingham was awarded a Militar
Under machinegun fire and bombing attacks, Sgt Geoffrey Cyril Bingham, (NX32437) 8th Division Signals, with two other men, repairs damaged telephone wires between Mersing and Endau, Malaya. Bingham wa
Leon Gray was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his bravery and his leadership when his section encountered intense fire in the Chora Valley on 29 December 2008. Gray was serving in Afghanis
Portrait of New Guinean Tapioli, DC, a Sergeant of the Papuan Infantry Battalion, Finschhafen, New Guinea. Tapioli was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Tapioli, DC (PN463), served in the Papu
Studio portrait of Private (Pte) William Matthew Currey VC, 53rd Battalion. Pte Currey was awarded the Victoria Cross for "most conspicuous bravery and daring" on 1 September 1918 at Peronne, France.
Joined the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps; went to South Vietnam with 4RAR as a rifle company corporal medic; awarded the Military Medal for bravery when tending to casualties under fire.