The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Portrait of Brigadier-General William Livingstone Hatchwell Burgess (1880-1964), CMG, DSO, Commanding 4th Division Artillery, AIF.Born in England, William Burgess emigrated to New Zealand in the 1890s and worked as a carpenter and engineer before joining the New Zealand Volunteer Force, serving with the Canterbury Mounted Rifles in Timaru. He transferred to the New Zealand Regiment of Field Artillery Volunteers in Auckland. In November 1913 he was seconded to the Australian Military Forces for 12 months duty as an exchange officer and he subsequently became Brigade major on the staff of the 6th Military District in Hobart, Tasmania. He was appointed to the AIF as Captain in August 1914 and commanded the 9th Field Artillery Battery. After training in Egypt, he went ashore at Anzac in May 1915 and was promoted to Lt. Colonel in March 1916, two weeks before embarking for France. In France his brigade participated in the advance to the Hindenburg Line and the fighting around Bullecourt. Burgess returned to New Zealand after the war and in 1921 became chief of staff at Army Headquarters. In 1924 he became Director of Military Intelligence and in 1931 was appointed General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Forces.
Portrait of Major General William Holmes, CMG, DSO, VD, commanded the 4th Division AIF and 5th Infantry Brigade, formerly also the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF). William H
Unfinished portrait of Major General William Holmes, CMG, DSO, VD, commanded the 4th Division AIF and 5th Infantry Brigade, formerly also the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF)
Depicts a portrait of Brigadier-General Sydney Charles Edgar Herring (1881-1951), DSO, Commanding 13th Brigade, in full uniform, wearing a cap. Herring was born in Granville, Sydney and after a privat
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. Unnamed as issued. TX2001 Horace William Strutt was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1903. He joined the militia in 1924 as a lieutenant in the Field Artillery. He w
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Brigadier General Thomas Henry Dodds CMG CVO DSO, as part of an ongoing series of portraits that acknowledged senior military le
Depicts a portrait of Brigadier General Cecil Henry Foott, CB, CMG, Deputy Director General of Repatriation and Demobilisation AIF; Western Front. Cecil Henry Foott (1876-1942), regular army officer,
