Endurance and Sacrifice: Australia’s Fighting Men in Vintage Images (082301) _au32

Australian wounded soldiers posing before boarding a Quantas flying boat that will take them from Popondetta, New Guinea to Port Moresby, Papua. Photograph, c1943, during the New Guinea Campaign.

Australian troops in the Lone Pine trenches.

An Australian digger uses a periscope in a trench captured during the attack on Lone Pine, Gallipoli, 8 August 1915.

Australian wounded infantrymen at the first battle of Passchendaele, near Zonnebeke railway station.

3rd Australian Light Horse Regiment machine-gunners in action at Khurbetha-Ibn-Harith, near Palestine, 31 December 1917. HMAS Sydney at full speed, ten minutes after the ceasefire was ordered in her battle with the German cruiser Emden. 

9th Australian Light Horse bring in Turkish prisoners in the Sinai, 13 April 1916.

The crew of a 40mm Bofors anti aircraft gun awaiting the next German aerial attack from a position overlooking Suda Bay, Crete.

Thessaly, Greece, 1941-05. Larissa Aerodrome. German parachute troops embarking on a troop carrying “Junkers” aircraft for Crete.

Maleme, Crete. 1941-05-18. Membersof ‘A’ Troop, 2/7th Battery, 2/3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, with a 40mm Bofors gun on the north side of Maleme Airfield.

Crete, 1941-05-20. German paratroops, part of the German airborne invasion of Crete, parachuting onto the village of Suda.

Group portrait of Australian Prisoners of War at Stalag XIIIc in Hammelburg am Main, Germany. Tonkin is standing far left and Rolling is standing third from right

Prisoners at the German prisoner of war camp Stalag XIIIc. Tonkin is seated second row from the front, fourth from the right. Rolling is standing third row down fifth from the left.

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