The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
'The Beach: a Short Story' was written by Petry in the earlier 1970s after a visit back to Normandy. The story reminisces about taking part in the D-Day landing on June 6 1944. The story describes taking part in intensive exercises, practising beach landings, loading the ships with tanks and young infantrymen, the bad weather they encountered on the way to France, navigating to the landing site, the tanks and troops disembarking, the beach being alive with tanks, soldiers, explosions, guns and smoke, and how the beach is now deserted and unchanged and the hope that the beach remains unchanged.
Collection relating to the First World War service of 6733 Lieutenant Gerard Henderson Cowan, 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, Australia, England and France, 1895-1919. Wallet 1 of 5 consists of
Collection relating to the Second World War service of WX3383 Lieutenant John 'Jack' Robert Millett, 2/11th Battalion, POW. Lieutenant Jack Millett enlisted in the Army in July 1940. After arriving
Collection relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Holm Watson, 2nd Division Signal Company, Australian Imperial Forces, Gallipoli, France, and Belgium, 1914-1919. Coll