The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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, crouching); and SX500503 (SX6962) Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Seaforth Blackburn, VC, Commanding Officer 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion. Sgt Hill was killed in action on 4 March 1942 in Java.
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
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
Identified personnel of the 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion, from left to right: H Gray; V Oxenham; VX26615 Colin Vernon Trinnick. British soldiers in background. The commanding officer of the 2/3rd Machine
The 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion. The commanding officer of the 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion was Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Blackburn, who had been awarded the Victoria Cross in World War One. Blackburn wa
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