The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Three items relating to the service of 413384 Flying Officer (later Flight Lieutenant) Eric Thomas Wallis Holt, No. 1 Communication Unit, RAAF, and specifically the tour of New Guinea by Prime Minister (PM) Ben Chifley in January 1946 when Holt piloted the PM's Douglas Dakota aircraft. The items comprise: letter, 5 February 1946, from the PM to FO Holt, with get well wishes while FO Holt was in hospital; draft reply by FO Holt expressing thanks for this and for the PM's support re `the Torokina incident'; transcript (with carbon copy) of an official letter to FO Holt and his crew relaying a letter of thanks from the PM through the Air Member for Personnel; carbon copy of an official report (2 pages) by FO Holt, with a covering memo dated 17 January 1946, re interference with the aircraft while on the Piva North Airstrip, Torokina, Bougainville.
Collection relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Windeyer Ralston, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF), New Guinea, 1914. Wallet 1 of 1 - cont
Collection relating to service of Lieutenant Henry Allen, 3 Battalion, Lone Pine, 1915. Carbon copy of letter from Director Australian War Memorial, to Mrs F. Duncan, Alberta, Canada, requesting mate
Collection relating to the Second World War service of SX3032 Lieutenant Clive Eric Edwards, 2/27 Australian Infantry Battalion, Australia, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, New Guinea, and Indonesia,
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Lieutenant John Leggoe, Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve, Australia, 1942-1946. Wallet 1 of 1 – Contains two folders of material relatin
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 426592 Flying Officer John Bernard Heness, Nos. 20 and 42 Catalina Squadrons, 3 Operational Training Unit, and 111 Air-Sea Rescue Flight, Austral
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX24728 Lieutenant James Robert ‘Jim’ Badham, 2/22 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Rabaul, New Britain, 1941. W