The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
MALVERN, VIC. 1953. FORMER LIEUTENANT HUGH SYME GC GM AND BAR RANVR, MANAGER OF THE AGE NEWSPAPER, PREPARES TO CROSS TOORAK ROAD AS HE WALKS FROM WORK TO HOME TO GAIN FITNESS TO TAKE PART IN THE CORONATION MARCH IN LONDON. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION).
Wedmore, England. Informal portrait of Lieutenant Howard Dudley Reid GM and Bar, RANVR, attached to the Enemy Mining Section at HMS Vernon. He is standing beside the first German Type C aerial magneti
The entrance to HMS Vernon. During the Second World War, it became the main Royal Naval base responsible for mine disposal and mine countermeasures. This image is from the collection of Lieutenant (Lt
Portrait of Lieutenant Hugh Randall Syme, GC, GM and Bar, Royal Australian Naval Reserve. Lt Syme was based at HMS Vernon, Portsmouth, from 1940 to 1942. He rapidly developed a reputation for bravery,
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) personnel on the parade ground at Lancing College. An outpost of HMS King Alfred, the RNVR training establishent at Hove, the school was taken over in 1941 and re
An overhead view of HMS Vernon, Portsmouth. During the Second World War, it became the main Royal Naval base responsible for mine disposal and mine countermeasures. The low building in the centre is c
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. Unnamed as issued. Medals of Lieutenant Hugh Randall Syme, Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RANVR), born 28 February 1903 at Kew, Melbourne. Syme’s fath
