The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
At Sea. The battleship HMS Nelson of 33,900 tons displacement was commissioned in 1927 and later saw service in the Second World War. She served in the Mediterranean in July 1941 when she was part of the escort force for Malta convoys. In late 1941 she was nominated to be one of the units in the Eastern Fleet to be formed for operations in the Indian Ocean. With Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, planned for mid 1943, Nelson returned to the Mediterranean to be part of the British naval forces for the purpose of covering intervention by Italian forces against this Allied operation. In 1945, Nelson was the flagship of the East Indies Fleet steaming towards the Malayan Peninsula with the intention of occupying Penang. Following the capitulation of the Japanese Government on 14 August 1945, the surrender of the Japanese commander at Penang was accepted on board Nelson. After her long career, Nelson was scrapped in 1948.
The British cruiser HMS Orion of 7215 tons displacement commissioned in 1934. During the Second World War Orion was part of the British naval forces in the Caribbean before transferring to the Mediter
The battleship HMS Barham of the Royal Navy in port. Built in 1915 with a displacement of 31,000 tons, Barham was part of the Eastern Mediterranean Fleet in mid 1940 and in September 1940 was included
Portrait of 24029 Able Seaman (AB) John Robinson Young, HMAS Cerberus, of Hughenden, Qld, behind the wheel of HMVS Nelson. AB Young later served with HMAS Sydney and was killed in action when she was
The armoured cruiser HMS Euryalus (left), shown steaming in the Dardanelles where she served as flagship of Rear Admiral Wemyss RN.
HMAS 'Ipswich' doing convoy escort in the Persian Gulf in April 1943. The blue colour indicates the phosphoresce of a moonlit evening. HMAS 'Ipswich' was later involved in Operation 'Husky', the invas
Small bronze bridge bell with a plain tapering waist, narrow single bead line and a concave sound rim. A separately cast suspender is attached to the head, which, internally, forms the suspender for t
