Gallery

• AGH 110 – HOLLWOOD REPATRIATION HOSPITAL
• WX9392 LT MILTON ERIC WANKEY ‘D’ COY, 13 PLATOON WIA 2230 HOURS 8 FEB 1942 – WANKEY WAS TO HAVE HIS RIGHT LEG AMPUTATED ABOVE KNEE 17 FEB 1942 OFFICER IN CHARGE 13 PLATOON REMAINED AT HIS POST AFTER BEING WOUNDED UNTIL 1.30 HOURS  
• JIM ELLIOTT, RON BADOCK & JIM GILMOUR VISIT ORIGINAL CHANGI GAOL, SINGAPORE PRIOR TO DEMOLITION (2004)
•  WHO REMEMBERS THE HIT MARCHING SONG  1961 ‘SINK THE BISMARCK’ by Johnny Horton? A MAJOR HIT IN AUSTRALIA PEAKING AT NO. 15 ON THE MUSIC CHARTS. Please read the true story of BRITAIN’S HMS HOOD & GERMANY’S BISMARCK –  The world’s TWO largest ships 1941, GO TO: https://2nd4thmgb.com.au/story/the-story-of-hms-hood-german-bismarck        
• 2/4TH BAMBOO BALL – A FANTASTIC & POPULAR NIGHT’S ENTERTAINMENT  WHO RECALLS THEIR PARENTS ATTENDING THIS ANNUAL EVENT?  DO YOU HAVE PHOTOS???? PLEASE SEND TO  2nd4thmgb@gmail.com
• WX8952 PTE ROBERT RONALD RIEBE DESPATCH RIDER TO LT WANKEY, 13 PLATOON WORKED BURMA-THAI RAILWAY D FORCE S BATTALION RECOVERED FROM SONKURAI-NIKHE DEFENCE LINE, THAILAND TALENTED FOOTBALLER, PLAYED 2/4TH FOOTBALL TEAM 
• WX10793 CORP EDWARD JOHN (TED) ROWELL 11 PLATOON KIA HILL 200, ULU PANDAN 12 FEB 1942 AGED 25YEARS
• WX8788 Francis Leslie (Les) GILES, one of 13 Giles children enlisted Oct 1940 – worked on Burma-Thai Railway with ‘D’Force V Battalion which suffered terribly with high death rate & illness. Recovered from Thailand at end of war. Les had 3 brothers who enlisted WW1, 2 returned home & 3rd:  Edward Chichelle (Edie) Giles b. 1900 enlisted aged 14 years with 28th Btn SN34125, KIA Pozieres 28 July 1916  – aged 16 years. Younger brother to his father Albert Giles –Sgt Francis (Frank) Giles b. SA 1885. d. 5 Aug 1916 aged 30 years Pozieres, France. Bur. Villers Bretonneux, Somme.  
• WX8543 LESLIE ‘LES’ WILLIAM SAMUEL KEMP WITH HIS SON COLIN RANGETAKER WITH ‘B’ COY 9 PLATOON BURMA-THAI RAILWAY  – ‘D’ FORCE THAILAND S BATTALION RECOVERED FROM THAILAND AT END OF WAR
•  2/4TH PLAYING TWO-UP DARWIN, NT 1941
• 2/4TH 40TH ANNIVERSARY 15 AUGUST 1985 HERITAGE ON CHARLES L-R:  RON BADOCK, DOUG HAMPSON, LES KEMP, ALF WORTH      
• LONDON HOTEL, ALBANY OCT 1982 BACK L-R: JOHN MORGAN, TREVOR JAMES, RON BADOCK, TED ROOTS, FRONT L-R: MEL DOCKING, HAROLD COWIE, LES KEMP (orignal colour photo changed to B/W for clarity)