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Crowds flock to Royal visit at Australian War Memorial
More than 4,000 people have turned out under clear blue skies to see King Charles III and Queen Camilla during their visit to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra today.
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Imperial German Model 1889 Cavalry Sword and Scabbard : 7 Dragoons, Prussian Cavalry
Imperial German Model 1889 cavalry sword and scabbard. The hilt has a steel half basket guard with the heraldic eagle of Prussia as the cartouche badge and the grip is brown bakelite held to the tang ...
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2/8th Field Regiment
Formed in Australia during the first year of the Second World War, the 2/8th Field Regiment served in Egypt and Syria, in the Middle East, and on Borneo, in the Pacific. It was one of the 9th Division ...
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No. 8 Squadron
8 Squadron reformed in Canberra at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and began conducting patrols and searches, and providing transportation services from January 1940. Once re-equipped ...
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Private William Lucas
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Bendigo flying ace honoured at Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial in Canberra will be commemorating the service and sacrifice of Bendigo resident, flying ace and motor racing champion, Group Captain John Raeburn Balmer OBE DFC at the Last ...
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Driver Frederick Willson
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Battle of 42nd Street
In the wake of the conquest of Greece, German forces planned to capture the island of Crete as an air base commanding the eastern Mediterranean. The Germans needed to capture a port or (given British ...
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No. 6 Squadron
On 1 January 1939 4 Squadron (General Reconnaissance) was renumbered 6 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. Early in the war the unit commenced reconnaissance and bombing exercises with the navy and ...
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Lieutenant General Leslie James Morshead
Leslie Morshead won fame as the defender of Tobruk during the Second World War and is among the most renowned Australian divisional commanders of that war. He was born at Ballarat in Victoria on 18 ...
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Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Bennett
Gordon Bennett, born on 16 April 1887 at Balwyn, Melbourne, was Australia's most controversial Second World War commander. As a youth he attended Balwyn State School and Hawthorn College before ...