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Australians at War

by National Library of Australia Commons

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El Alamein [lone soldier on guard in silhouette]
[Troops moving over a plank road, near Idiots Corner during the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917]
Anzac Cove, Gallipoli
Q.M. Maloney shaving, [as another soldier holds up a mirror for him, June? 1915]
Writing in the trenches, [Anzac soldiers sit in their shelters in the trench and write letters home, June? 1915]
Beach scene, [at Anzac Beach where cases are neatly stacked to provide natural cover and there is the general appearance of a well-organised though cramped army camp, May?, 1915]
Regiment in ravines, [Anzac soldiers having arrived in vicinity of the trenches make final camp along a ravine trail to the side of the mountain escarpment, June? 1915]
Tall bullrushes [surrounding train as seen] from top of train carriages, [where some soldiers of the 8th Light Horse Regiment travelled during the journey from Suez to Cairo, April 4, 1915]
Dawn of El Alamein Battle, tanks waiting to advance
Unidentified Australian Army soldiers playing two-up : scenes of Army life in Australia during World War II /
Unidentified Australian Army soldiers in jungle : scenes of Army life in Australia during World War II /
Unidentified Australian Army soldiers marching with full kits : scenes of Army life in Australia during World War II /
Spitfire kings flying high above the clouds alongside a Royal Australian Air Force bomber, ca. 1943
[Letters from home]
World War I cemetery at Jerusalem : [Jerusalem, World War II]
[Australian troops on parade, World War II]
ANZAC Day parade, Martin Place, Sydney, ca. 1930
Private Wallace Tratford arrives home on leave, Drouin, Victoria
Wartime parting of a family, Drouin, Victoria
Jas. P. Campbell, [Port Melbourne, Vic in Feb. 1915].
On the WW1 military transport ship
[Soldiers, supplies and boats at shore of Anzac Cove, Turkey, 1915].
Unidentified Australian Army soldiers shovelling rocks [transparency] : scenes of Army life in Australia during World War II /
Troops on parade near McDowells Limited building
Australian Imperial Force's 2nd Infantry Brigade marching through Bourke Street, Melbourne, Friday, 25th September 1914.
Anzac memorial Hyde Park [2] : [Sydney, New South Wales] /
Grumman Hellcat, Royal Navy aircraft, 1943?
A Royal Navy Fairey Flycatcher biplane (N9928), ca. 1920s
War Loan Bonds, Spartan Enamels and Kiwi Boot Polish billboards, Brighton Beach Station, Victoria, ca. 1942
Servicemen in the Royal Australian Air Force, United States Army, Australian Imperial Force and Royal Australian Navy chatting to their girlfriends on the telephone, Melbourne, 1942.
Women at the Small Arms Ammunition Factory checking cartridges, Australia, 1944.
Women volunteer grinding a billet of armour piercing steel at a munitions factory, Australia, 1944.