The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Wearing a surplice and cassock, 240103 Padre A W Laing conducts a funeral service in a cemetery. He is standing behind earth graves with white crosses. It is possibly the service for eight servicemen from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), who were killed at the Battle of the Broken Bridge. The battle was at the Kujin crossing of the Taeryong River, near Pakchon, on 25 and 26 October 1950. The soldiers' bodies were interred in a Christian churchyard in Pakchon and were later moved to Pyongyang cemetery. They were amongst the earliest Australian deaths in the Korean War. Those killed were 23513 Private (Pte) T Blackett, 52575 Sergeant (Sgt) E M Fitzpatrick, 2400088 Pte A W Harris, 2400095 Pte L V Maher, 345146 Sgt D F McDonald, 51209 Pte G L Read, 649 Lieutenant J F Wathen, and 22378 Pte S J Wilkinson.
Group portrait of A Company of the 22nd Battalion with their rifles and lewis guns. Back row, left to right (standing): Company Sergeant Major E. F. Watkins MM; Company Quartermaster Sergeant J. Nelms
AWM119 614 PART 1 - [Office of Military Secretary, Army honours and awards confidential working files] Operational Awards Vietnam - List 12 Citations [Sgt J M Robinson; Col A B Stretton; Lt-Col P C Gr
Rivery, France. 26 June 1918. Group portrait of the Non-commissioned Officers of the 19th Battalion, near Amiens, while the Battalion was at rest. Back row, left to right: Corporal (Cpl) Ratcliffe (st
An outdoors group portrait of D Company of the 59th Battalion. Identified from left to right, back row: 1540 Sergeant (Sgt) G E Every; 2714 Private (Pte) G G Read; 3374 Pte F W Cook; 3421 T/Sergeant (
Troops of the 2nd Australian Machine Gun Battalion marching through the streets of Bray on their way to a camp in the transport lines further ahead. Identified: Lieutenant (Lt) F. Hamilton MM and Bar
Members of D Company, 2/24 Infantry Battalion, outside the unit regimental aid post in Djoeata Boorterein village, Tarakin Island. Back row, left to right: Private (Pte) J Kent; Lance Sergeant (Sgt) N
