The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Anzacs evacuated from Crete arrived at Alexandria undaunted by Germany's mechanised might. All were confident that with adequate air support they could cope with German Land Forces. Tired by days of incessant fighting, these Anzacs were still ready to face the enemy when they disembarked.
Nautical compass in a gimbaled brass case. The compass case is attached by two screws to a brass ring to allow the rotation of the compass about a single axis. The compass face has a silver coloured d
Damaged 18 carat gold Universal Geneve double push button Compur chronograph with Muraman flex watch band. The glass is missing from the watch face and the band has detached from one end. The watch fa
Type II brass SA belt buckle with a die stamped silver coloured disc soldered to the face. The disc shows an eagle holding a wreath with a swastika in the centre, around this is a border, with another
Pair of ANZAC leave rosettes made from red, white and dark blue wool flannel made up of concentric circles of red (outer), white and dark blue (inner), with three red, white and dark blue tails of equ
c. 1946. Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) B.C.(Ben) Hackney, 2/29th Battalion, one of only two men to survive the Japanese massacre of wounded at Parit Sulong during the fighting on the Malay Penins
Tripolitania, Libya. 28 December 1942. Working parties busy with their spades on the desolate stretch of desert chosen for the airfield. Ground crews of the RAF and RAAF squadrons worked like navvies
