The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A memorial service at Leighterton cemetery, Gloucestershire, where the bodies of those members of the 1st Wing, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), who have died, or been killed on service, are buried. The whole wing was paraded and marched to the cemetery, where a service was conducted by the Wing Chaplain, Major Keith Dixon Norman. The graves were covered with beautiful wreaths, kindly sent by Mr and Mrs Lowsley Williams of Chavenage. The aircrew cadets wearing a white cap band are being trained as pilots and observers. There is one Australian flag with the Union Jack hanging on the pulpit and one Australian flag on the flagpole. An aerial photograph of the same ceremony can be seen at P10218.010.
Aerial view of a memorial service at Leighterton cemetery, Gloucestershire. Here were buried the bodies of those members of the 1st Wing, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), who died, or were killed on act
A memorial service held at Leighterton cemetery, where the bodies of those members of the Australian Flying Corps (AFC), who had been killed or died since the formation of the 1st Wing are buried. The
Aerial view of a memorial service at Leighterton cemetery, Gloucestershire. Here were buried the bodies of those members of the 1st Wing, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), who died, or were killed on act
LEIGHTERTON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND. 1ST WING OF AUSTRALIAN FLYING CORPS MUSTERED TO RECEIVE AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND GIFTS. [SOPWITH SNIPE AND WHITE CAMEL IN BACKGROUND]
An unidentified Australian Army chaplain, wearing Second World War ribbon bars, stands at the pulpit in a chapel in Japan. There is no congregation in the church indicating the chaplain is possibly
A first Anzac Day service is held at the military hospital near Alexandria. Soldiers, two chaplains and four nurses (right) have paraded on the tennis court as the Union Jack flag is at half mast and
Pusan, Korea. April 1954. Sergeant Alan Wells of Puckapunyal, Vic, stands sentry by the flagpole at the United Nations Military Cemetery after a memorial service before the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Au
