The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Members of No. 5 Course Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) at No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) meet the English entertainer Noel Coward. Left to right: 400396 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Horace Spencer Wills (Bill) Fordyce; LAC Les Hancock (probably 400368 Leslie Pierson Hancock, later Pilot Officer 1651 Conversion Unit RAF, killed on operations over Germany on 29 July 1942); unidentified; LAC Davies; Noel Coward; unidentified; unidentified; LAC John White; LAC Smith. (Cibachrome copy in AWM Private Records Collection at PR85/353)
Edmonton, Canada. c.1942-01-13. Portrait of Robert Maxwell Bryant RAAF preparing to blow out the candles on his twenty-first birthday cake. He was in Alberta, Canada, as part of the Empire Air Trainin
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX36468 Corporal Richard George Rooke, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) hel
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40023 Private Eric Arthur Abbott, General Base Depot. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Bo
Nakama, Japan, 1945. A group portrait of prisoners of war (POWs) at Camp 21, a coal mine about thirty miles from Nagasaki. The POWs where transferred from Fukuoka No. 2 Prisoner of War Camp, Koyagi Is
One of a pair of Japanese Type 95, Ha-Go tanks, which were found by patrolling Australian troops at Milne Bay on 29 August 1942, after they had bogged down and were abandoned by their Japanese crews.
On arrival in England, group portrait of RAAF Sergeant pilots who trained together on No. 5 Course, Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS). Left to right: 400366 David Forman (later Flying Officer 353 Squa
Portrait of 400396 Pilot Officer Horace Spencer Wills (Bill) Fordyce in the grounds of the Officers' Hospital. (Donor H. Fordyce) (Cibachrome copy in AWM Private Records Collection at PR85/353)
Sulmona, Italy. Portrait of 400396 Flying Officer Horace Spencer Wills (Bill) Fordyce RAAF, prisoner of war in the POW camp PG 78. (Donor H. Fordyce) (Cibachrome copy in AWM Private Records Collection
Sulmona, Italy. Lieutenant Ron H. (Chetnic) Jones AIF, (left) and 400396 Flying Officer Horace Spencer Wills (Bill) Fordyce RAAF. They were prisoners of war in camp PG 78. (Donor H. Fordyce) (Cibach
Sulmona, Italy. Trophy and model of a stable made by 400396 Pilot Officer Horace Spencer Wills (Bill) Fordyce RAAF, and figures representing the place getters in the Melbourne Cup for that year. They
A flight crew from 458 Squadron RAAF, in front of Wellington aircraft `R for Robert'. Left to right: Sergeant (Sgt) Stewart Ricketts (Air Gunner) (probably 402040 Carlyle Raymond Stuart Ricketts); Sg
