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Studio portrait of Colonel Leslie Ernest Le Souef, OBE ED MD FRCS FRACS. Prior to the Second World War, he commanded the 13th Field Ambulance (Western Command) and at the outbreak of war was commissioned to raise and train the 2/7th Australian Field Ambulance. On 1 June 1941 he was captured in Crete, one of six medical Lieutenant Colonels to be captured, and he spent the next four years as a Prisoner of War (POW) in Germany. He was Mentioned in Despatches (MID) during the campaign in the Middle East and awarded his OBE for services in Greece and Crete. For his work in POW camps he was again awarded an MID and also awarded the French medals of the Bronze Medaille d'Honneur du Service de Sante Militaire and the Silver Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francais. After his retirement he became the first Honorary Colonel of the Medical Corps Western Command.
Studio portrait of 369 Sergeant (Sgt) George Albert Hill, 15th Machine Gun Company. A labourer of Dunolly, Victoria, he enlisted on 21 August 1914. He embarked as a member of the 7th Battalion in Octo
El Alamein area, 5 August 1942. A soldier with a shrapnel wound in the abdomen being transferred from an ambulance to a resuscitation tent; examined by medical officer and blood transfusion adminstere
Studio portrait of 112 Sergeant (Sgt) Herbert Foran, French Medaille Militaire, 6th Light Horse Regiment (LHR) from Gilgandra, NSW. A 22 year old grazier prior to enlisting on 9 October 1914, he embar
Studio portrait of 112 Sergeant (Sgt) Herbert Foran, French Medaille Militaire, 6th Light Horse Regiment (LHR) from Gilgandra, NSW. A 22 year old grazier prior to enlisting on 9 October 1914, he embar
Studio portrait of 201 Company Quartermaster Sergeant (CQMS) Alfred Leslie Guppy, B Company, 14th Battalion, of Benalla, Vic, aged 27 years. CQMS Guppy enlisted on 16 September 1914 and embarked from
A photograph, taken from an aeroplane above, of a plane piloted by Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Walter Oswald Watt, seen flying over German territory in 1915. Lt Col Watt was an Australian who joined t
