Gallery

• ‘A’ Coy Aug 1941 – Park beside Torrens River, Adelaide
• 51st Anniversary Dinner August 1991 John & Rhonda Lane (Ramsbottom) ‘Cowboy’ Matthews, Joe Beattie (Beattie Collection)
• WX13352 Roy SMITH – 51st Anniversary Dinner 1991
• Aug 1941 – ‘A’ Coy enjoying park beside Torrens River, Adelaide
• ‘A’ Coy enjoying Torrens River, Adelaide Aug 1941
• Eric Fraser, Trevor James & Dick Ridgwell – 1985 Anzac Day Reunion
• Con Ryan, Wally Lynn, Ron Badock – 1985 Re-union Bunbury
• Anzac Day 1985 – L-R Tom Hampton, Bill Carlyon, Joe Beattie, Pop Heppingstone
• Greg Burdon, Claude Dow, Len Armstrong, Ron Badock  1985 Anzac Day Reunion
• This advanced dressing station provided care to Australian 8th Division forces during the Battle for Singapore. The hospital was located near the large airfield at Tengah, western Singapore
• Burma-Thailand Railway. c. 1943. “Amputation ward” in Bamboo Hut Hospital at a prisoner of war (POW) camp along the Burma-Thailand railway. The POWs have mostly had legs amputated because of uncontrollable tropical ulcers. (Donor A. Mackinnon)
• Woodside, SA. October 1941. Group portrait of members of 5 platoon, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion beside a train carriage en route from Woodside camp to Alice Springs. From left to right: Lance Corporal (LCpl) C. J. McDonald (in window). Standing: WX8585 Private (Pte) Cyril Jack Vidler (died of illness 9 June 1947 in WA); Pte B. Fitzgerald; Lance Sergeant H. E. Saw; LCpl N. H. E. Thompson; Pte L. M. C. Murray; Pte L. Armstrong. Front row: Pte D. F. Sterrett; LCpl J. B. Gilmour. This unit spent a year in Australia in basic training, went overseas to Singapore, fought the Japanese for eight days, suffering many casualties and the remainder were taken Prisoner of War (POW), spending time in Changi, Thailand and Burma. Nearly forty percent of the unit’s personnel died as POW, in action or of wounds received. (Donor J. Lane)