Photographs from the Australian War Memorial

312 items in this album on 16 pages.


Two Hudson bombers of No. 13 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force in flight Darwin, 1940	At the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation factory in Australia, employees move a partly constructed Wirraway aircraft to a more advanced position in the assembly line, 2 Feb 1940

No. 21 Squadron RAAF Flying Officer James Herbert Harper flying a Wirraway aircraft over Laverton, Victoria, Australia, 9 Feb 1940	HMS Hermes and HMS Dorsetshire escorting convoy US.3 with Australian and New Zealand troops on board, Atlantic Ocean, 9 Jun 1940

HMS Eagle at Alexandria, Egypt, 20 Jul 1940; note HMS Warspite in background	Royal Australian Navy Captain John Collins aboard HMAS Sydney, Mediterranean Sea, 22 July 1940

RMS Queen Mary in the King George VI Graving Dock, Sembawang, Singapore, Aug 1940	German He 111 bomber in flight northbound over Surrey Docks, London, England, United Kingdom at 1700 hours on 7 Sep 1940, photo 1 of 2

Two Do 17Z-2 bombers of German wing Kampfgeschwader 3 over Beckton Gas Works, flying southward toward Woolwich Arsenal, London, England, United Kingdom, 7 Sep 1940	Peter Drummond speaking to journalists, 28 Sep 1940

Major General Iven Mackay of Australian 6th Division and his senior staff officers, Ikingi Maryut, Egypt, Dec 1940	25-Pounder Mark II gun of Sergeant Pearse of 1st Battery, A Troop, Australian 2/1st Field Artillery Regiment bombarding Bardia, Libya, 29 Dec 1940

HMS Eagle at Alexandria, Egypt, 31 Dec 1940	Australian soldier observing the burning wreck of Ju 87B Stuka dive bomber, near Tobruk, Libya, 1941

Australian soldier posing with an Owen Machine Carbine, date unknown	Australian soldiers on a wrecked German Ju 87B Stuka dive bomber, Libya, circa 1941

Crew of cruiser HMAS Sydney, circa late 1940 or early 1941	Entrance to RAF Station Sembawang, Singapore, circa 1941

Hideki Tojo, circa 1941	Leonard Siffleet and his fiancee Clarice Lane at Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia, 1941