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ANZAC Day ein paar Digger der letzten 100 Jahre:
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Unidentified soldier of the First AIF
ID Number: P06003.001
Place made: Unknown
The photograph was probably taken in Australia, pre-embarkation, sometime between 1915 and 1918.
Featured in the Memorial's 2008 exhibition Icon and Archive, the identity of this striking-looking man is not known and the Memorial had a lot of responses from people with possible identifications, none of which have been him.
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Father and son, 1916
ID Number: P05483.001
Maker: Eden Studios
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Studio portrait of 1626 Private (Pte) Walter Henry Chibnall, 10th Light Trench Mortar Battery, pictured with his son William Beresford (Billy) Chibnall. A miner of Beaufort Vic, Pte Chibnall enlisted on 15 March 1916 and embarked on HMAT Ascanius with the 1st Reinforcements on 27 May 1916. He was transferred to the 10th Light Trench Mortar Battery on 7 August 1916 where he was promoted to Corporal (Cpl) on 15 September 1917. He was killed in action at Passchendaele, Belgium, on 12 October 1917, aged 32, when he and a comrade were hit by a shell while taking shelter in a crater. He is commemorated on The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Serving with the number VX39948, Pte Billy Chibnall enlisted during the Second World War, serving with the 2/21st Battalion. He was taken prisoner of war and died, aged 30, on 20 February 1942 at Ambon.
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Australian troops going into action, 25 April 1915
ID Number: G00907
Maker: Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W) Bean
Gallipoli, Plugge's Plateau, 25 April 1915
Australian troops going into action across Plugge's Plateau after the landing on 25 April. Men in front may be seen kneeling in the scrub. The troops were under fire from the other side of Shrapnel Valley. This scene is from a Turkish trench overlooking the Anzac Cove beach.
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G'day in Korea, 1951
ID Number: P01813.538
Maker: Robertson, Ian
Korea
Private (Pte) Chris Bell-Chambers, a member of the Sniper Section, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), smiles and waves to a group of Korean children who have emerged from their hiding place after their village has been cleared of enemy forces. Snow lies on the ground and on the roofs of houses in the village. The rifle Pte Bell-Chambers is carrying on his shoulder is a .303 inch Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE) No.1 MkIII*(HT).
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One of these two soldiers is Private Simpson.
ID Number: HOBJ3243
Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver
Place made: Korea
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Private Danny Matthews 1 RAR on the Kansas Line in Korea
Phillip Oliver Hobson (photographer)
Korea: 38th Parallel
3 December 1954
Ready in his fighting pit as the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australia Regiment manned its positions in the Kansas Line in Korea, is Private Danny Matthews of Goonellabah, Lismore, NSW. He is wearing his parka for protection against the icy wind blowing up from the slowly freezing Imjin River. After Private Matthews completed his National Service training, he joined the Regular Army sixteen months ago and has been in Korea for seven months.
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National Service training at Wacol
Bruce Colin Reedman (photographer)
Wacol, Queensland
August 1958
A camouflaged bren gun trench taken during a trek by A Company, 11th National Service Training Battalion basic training at Wacol, Qld.
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Gunner Ernie Widders writes a letter from Vietnam
John Alfred Ford (photographer)
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam
May 1971
Gunner Ernie Widders of Armidale, NSW, takes time out during a break in operations in Phuoc Tuy Province, to write a letter. Gunner Widders, who was a shearer before being called up for National Service, is a member of C Company, 2RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment). The battalion has just completed its final operation in the war zone and will return to Australia later this month.
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Tracker dogs, 1967
ID Number: CAM/67/0411/VN
Maker: Bryan Campbell
Place made: Vietnam: South Vietnam
Two black Labrador dogs which had a lot of sniffing to do during Operation Lismore that was completed by 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR). The dog handlers are 19983 Private (later Lance Corporal (L Cpl)) Thomas Douglas (Tom) Blackhurst of Swansea, NSW (left), with Justin and 43921 L Cpl Norman Leslie (Norm) Cameron of Kingston, SA, (right) with Cassius. The dogs were responsible for locating Viet Cong fighters and some enemy installations. L Cpl Blackhurst was killed in action on 17 April 1971 while serving with the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam. He was a radio operator, calling in helicopter of 9 Squadron RAAF for a medical evacuation. The helicopter crashed, killing L Cpl Blackhurst and 3170244 L Cpl John Francis Gillespie of 8 Field Ambulance, the medic on board.
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