Ww1 and Ww2 photos and all info

02/09/2025

Captain Stanley Watson and several 2nd Australian Field Company sappers constructed the first pier at Anzac Cove: using a defused Turkish shell as a pile-driver, they completed the jetty on 18 June; it was named 'Watson's Pier'.The Australian Bridging Train transport ship provided the timber for the pier and upon the completion of Watson's Pier on June 18th, Lt. Col Foote said "Waterloo day! Let's have a dinner to celebrate".

This event started the tradition of The Waterloo Dinner, an annual dinner held by units of the Royal Australian Engineers on June 18.

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28/05/2025

15/05/2025

On Saturday, dozens of our soldiers will be involved in the military procession as part of the State Funeral for our friend Mr Arthur Leggett OAM 💔

Several current and former RSMs from 13th Brigade will also have the honour of being Casket Bearers 🇦🇺

We are humbled to be part of the proceedings on Saturday as we farewell an Australian hero 🫶

25/04/2025

A backward glance, taken in 1970, of Private Barry Russell, 22, from Queensland, moving off again during a patrol in the north west of Phuoc Tuy Province, during the Vietnam War.

He is a soldier of 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).

Private Barry Russell was a National Serviceman.

I have read he died in 2012, aged 64, and his grave is in the Samford Cemetery, Queensland.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from the Australian War Memorial. Image file number AWM WAR/70/0667/VN.

21/04/2025

28/01/2025

Another great photograph taken on the 8th of July 1943, in New Guinea, Wau-Mubo area, during WW2. Most likely the same soldiers in the previous post.

This Transport Unit with their horses carries stores to men at forward areas over some of the roughest country in New Guinea.

I like coming upon a photograph that includes the names of the people in them.

Pictured are Sergeant David Hutchins, 2/6th Battalion, of Camberwell, Victoria, and Corporal Keith John Corrin, 2/6th Battalion, of Tyabb, Victoria, light up before starting out on the track.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from the Australian War Memorial. Image file number AWM 015225.

28/01/2025

Private Lionel John 'Bomber' Terry, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) stands in a trench outside a bunker before heading out on a patrol. A miner prior to enlistment, Pte Terry commenced his service in Korea on 4 July 1952.

On the night of 24-25 January 1953, Pte Terry was a wireless operator on a patrol which moved from Hill 355 into enemy territory to raid a Chinese standing patrol and capture a prisoner.

During the battle which ensued, Pte Terry was wounded but later led a charge against an attack from the rear. He was last seen fighting a group to 20 Chinese soldiers.

Pte Terry's body was never recovered and he is regarded as missing presumed dead on 25 January 1953. He was aged 22.

In June 1955 he was posthumously Mentioned in Despatches. The citation read: "By his complete devotion to duty and personal sacrifice Pte Terry made it possible for his patrol to break cleanly from an overwhelmingly superior force and extricate itself with its wounded."

10/01/2025

24/12/2024

Merry Christmas To All

04/02/2024

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