The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Officers chatting with players during a spell in the football match between South Australian and Tasmanian members of the 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion. Identified are TX2483 Sergeant (Sgt) Joseph Royden (Roy) Lette, C Company (11th from left, wearing white shorts and a jersey with a white V); and SX500503 (SX6962) Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Seaforth Blackburn, VC, Commanding Officer 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion (14th from left, wearing his slouch hat and First World War German Luger pistol in holster). Sgt Lette had been a notable Australian Rules footballer with the City Club, Launceston,Tas. He died of wounds on 4 March 1942 in Java, aged 25
The players in the football match between South Australian and Tasmanian members of 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion. Identified are: TX2288 Sergeant (Sgt) John Francis Hill, C Company, (front row, far left,
Members of 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion march down Murray Street, approaching the corner of Liverpool Street. All AIF units in the Hobart area are participating in the march. The march started at the wat
Letters relating to the Second World War service of SX6962 Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Seaforth Blackburn, 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, At sea, French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, British Mandate of P
Joyce Radbone and SX8476 Sergeant (Sgt) John Eric Clinton Stephens, 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion, interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937-1947" oral history project. The i
Two unidentified teams play a game of Rugby League football, possibly at a British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) competition. The referee, in a white jersey and shorts, watches closely as two p
Two unidentified teams play a game of Rugby League football, possibly at a British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) competition. The referee, wearing a white jersey and shorts, crouches as he watc
