The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
FORCED BACK BY THE WEIGHT OF GERMAN ARMAMENTS AND OVERWHELMING AIR SUPERIORITY, AUSTRALIAN AND OTHER EMPIRE TROOPS EVACUATED GREECE WITH THEIR FIGHTING SPIRIT UNBROKEN. SOME AUSTRALIANS LANDED AT CRETE WITH THEIR KITS. THEY WERE LUCKY, AS MOST LANDED WITHOUT, FOR KITS HAD TO BE ABANDONED OR DESTROYED IN MANY CASES.
FORCED BACK BY THE WEIGHT OF GERMAN ARMAMENTS AND OVERWHELMING AIR SUPERIORITY, AUSTRALIAN AND OTHER EMPIRE TROOPS EVACUATED GREECE WITH THEIR FIGHTING SPIRIT UNBROKEN. EVERY AVAILABLE BOAT WAS PRESSE
SOUDA BAY, CRETE. SOME SOLDIERS EVACUATED FROM GREECE LANDED WITH THEIR KITS. THEY WERE THE LUCKY ONES ... BUT THEY MOSTLY LANDED WITHOUT, KITS HAD BEEN ABANDONED ON THE FORCED MARCH TO THE POINT OF E
Australia. Portrait of Commander A. C. C. Miers RN VC DSO and bar, one of the most decorated commanders of the Royal Navy, now visiting Australia. His war time experiences brought him into contact wit
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery talks to Staff Sergeant J. E. Bryant of Sydney, NSW, who was taken prisoner in Greece, and Corporal J. Hill of Sydney, NSW, taken prisoner in Crete. The two Austr
Distinguished Service Order (GRV, 1918) and Bar (1941). Unnamed as issued. During the First World War George Alan Vasey served with 4 and 22 Field Artillery Brigades, and with 11 Infantry Brigade. M
MELBOURNE, AUS. THE WIRELESS SET - KNOWN AFFECTIONATELY BY THE COMMANDOS WHO FOUGHT IN TIMOR IN 1942, AS WINNIE THE WAR WINNER, AN EXHIBIT AT THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, CANBERRA. FIGHTING AS GUERILL
