The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The poem "The Battle-Field" was written by Pte Beale to commemorate his friends and comrades from the 10th Brigade who fell at Buna-Sanananda during December 1942. The poems describes the fighting the Australians were involved in, what it was like fighting the Japanese and the spirit of the Australian soldiers.
The original manuscript for the book 'Under Furred Hats' written by G.L. Berrie and published in 1919. The manuscript describes the career of the 6th Light Horse Regiment from December 1914 to August
Pte Reid's account of a road-block ambush during WW2, in which he was involved as a member of the ambushed group, which comprised Reid's 2/19 Battalion, "the remnants of the Indian Brigade" and the 2/
A collection consisting of copies of letters written by Gunner Howard to his sister and parents whilst in Greece and Crete, poems (originals and copies) and a photograph of a dead German paratrooper.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX47818 Major Leonard Armstrong Fell, 2/24 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Egypt, c. 1940. Wallet 1 of 1 – Cons
Collection relating to the Second World War service of SX7733 Staff Sergeant Clive Stanley Wiese, 2/10th Australian Infantry Battalion, New Guinea, 1942. Collection consists of one original handwrit
Memoirs of service with AASC. Describes enlistment in 1940, joining 7 Division Supply, column training, transport on HMT `Queen Mary', leave in Palestine, and supply column to Egypt. Haslam was in Tob