Returned Services League of Australia, South Australian Branch
SRG 435
Special List
Series 2
Series 2: Photographs from the Second World War, 1939-1945
Number
Title
SRG 435/2/1-42
Active Service
in Middle East
and Ceylon
SRG 435/2/4395
SRG 435/2/96219
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Description
42 black and white photographs from active
service of an unknown Australian Officer in the
Middle East, including Jerusalem, and in Ceylon
(Sri Lanka) including Colombo, and portraits of
the officer, the owner/photographer, in full
uniform, and seated on a horse. Most are
captioned. The officer is possibly Lieutenant
Colonel Mahuta Alfred Walloscheck, SX9456,
2/3 Machine Gun Battalion. See also Series 47,
SRG 435/47/74-116 for other photographs
possibly taken by Walloscheck. 11.9 x 16.1 cm
or smaller. ca. 1940-1945.
Active service
53 black and white photographs with 27
in Egypt, May to negatives of numbers 45, 52, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62,
August 1941
66, 67, 71, 72, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 86, 87, 88,
91, 92, 94. All photographs include descriptions
of places and names. Comprising: German tank
bombed September 1941, troops travelling
aboard the ship Sobieski and engaging in
activities including tug of war, troops and camps
at Bi’r Aby Madi, Sidi Barrani and other lcoations
in Egypt. Names include: Swift, Bleadow,
Mosely, Lockman, Harvey, McCallum, Lorne,
Nurlily, Duncan, Gibbon, J. Bignell, Davidson,
Freddie Green, Benson, Whitacker, Ling,
Thorny, David, Thornyerolf, Osborne, Lobb,
Mathew, Derwich, Watts, Tubbs, Ashby, Wilson,
Webb, White, Catford, Alan Leigh, and Teddy
Foster. 6.7 x 9.5 cm or smaller. May to August
1941.
Occupation of
Japan
123 black and white photographs and postcards
of the occupation of Japan at the end of the
Second World War, General McArthur’s
residence and Headquarters, Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, and the sites and destruction caused
by atomic bombs, as well as postcards of
Japanese life, culture and landscapes. 11.8 x
16.5 cm or smaller. ca.1945-1947. WARNING:
contains graphic images.
Box
No.
491
491
492
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SRG 435/2/220239
Northern
Territory during
WW2
20 black and white photographs of locations and
troops and trucks in the Northern Territory
during the Second World War, including Alice
Springs, Larimah, Barrow Creek, the Devil’s
Marbles, Central Mount Stuart, Newcastle
Waters, Ti Tree, and Tennant Creek. One of the
soldiers may be John Forrest. 8.7 x 13.6 cm or
smaller. ca.1942.
492
SRG 435/2/240
Troops
marching
Black and white photograph of Australian troops
marching in uniform while a small crowd
watches on. Gum trees in the background. A
small band is playing on the right. 15.8 x 21 cm.
ca.1940.
492
SRG 435/2/241
Officers at
Mount Barker
Black and white group portrait of Australian
Officers at Mount Barker. All names given on
reverse. 16 x 21.4 cm. ca.1940.
492
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Troops
marching
2 black and white photographs of troops
marching in uniform with rifles along a street,
possibly in Mount Barker. ca.1940.
492
SRG 435/2/244247
Postcards
4 black and white postcards, three featuring
battleships and the fourth is a peace and victory
postcard. 16.4 x 20.9 cm or smaller. ca.19411945.
492
SRG 435/2/248252
Troops in South
Australia
5 black and white photographs featuring
mounted troops riding in formation in Adelaide
by Flannagan’s Imperial hotel, troops marching
along a street, a memorial of flower
arrangements, men in a tank, and a crowd
gathered around a disabled British soldier
busking with a small band in the street. 13.9 x
8.9 cm. ca.1940-1945.
492
SRG 435/2/253259
Soldiers training 7 black and white photographs of soldiers
with machine
training with machine guns, digging trenches
guns
and running with equipment. 11.5 x 17.6 cm or
smaller. ca.1942.
492
SRG 435/2/260306
Japan
492
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46 black and white commercial photographs and
postcards showing tourist sites, traditional
buildings and locations in Japan including Mount
Fuji, and the devastation caused by the atomic
bombs, and one Christmas card, signed by
‘Sandy’. 12.2 x 17.2 cm or smaller. Originally
housed in a small card box with Japanese
writing on the lid, 12.8 x 17.4 x 2.6 cm. ca.19451946. WARNING: contains graphic images.
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SRG 435/2/307461
Album of
Johnston (Air
Force) of
Europe at the
end of the war
Album of 143 black and white photographs of
565
France, Belgium, Holland and Germany near the
end of the war showing the devastation caused
by the war, including: destruction of buildings
and landscapes; Winston Churchill visiting St
Croix, Wing Commander Baker’s grace near
Caen (C/O 146 Wing); German prisoners in
Caen; Thanksgiving and Liberation ceremony in
Tours-en-Vimeu near Abberville; King George,
Monty, AVM Brown, and AM Broadhurst
inspecting various Wings in Antwerp; crashed
aircraft in Germany; Germany at the end of the
war; 197, 193, 263 and 266 RAF Squadron
crests; military cemetery; Network Control Room
broadcasting house, Hamburg; Johnston and his
friends in Air Force uniform in Germany;
Johnston and his friends enjoying recreation
leave on the beach and swimming pools (some
first names provided), women at work in a cabin
at Blankenese, and landscape scenes. 26.5 x
20.5 cm. ca.1944-1946.
Also includes two loose photos of Air Force men
marching, and an award ceremony. 16.5 x 12.1
cm. ca.1945.
10 black and white negatives of Johnston and
presumably his wife, son and friends, after the
war, possibly in London. 6 x 9 cm. ca.1948.
SRG 435/2/462634
Noel Stanley
Errington active
service in the
Middle East
139 black and white photographs and 18 black
565
and white postcards of Lance Corporal Noel
Stanley Errington’s active service in the Middle
East, including Lebanon and Syria, service
number SX8234 with the 2/43 Battalion, 9
Division, comprising troops, camps, machine
gun training, local people and landscapes. Also
includes 11 black and white and 3 colour family
photographs of his wife Jean Dawn (nee
Humby) and family, and a group photograph of
the Storeman Technical course 12 February
1970, with all names provided on reverse. 17.8 x
22.7 cm or smaller. ca.1940-1998, majority are
1940-1945. Also includes a purple box
containing a letter written to N.S. Errington and
wife by his son in 1978, and a leather sleeve
with the AIF badge stamped into the front along
with ‘Tobruk’ and ‘El –Alamein’.
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SRG 435/2/635
‘A’ Troop, 5th
Australian Field
Squadron
Black and white group portrait of ‘A’ Troop, 5 th
Australian Field Squadron, Royal Australian
Engineers. All names listed on mount.
Handwritten name on reverse: ‘Vi Hull’.
Photograph by C. Fitch & Son, Melbourne. 16.4
x 22.1 cm, on mount 24.6 x 30.3 cm. ca.1940.
Black and white group portrait of the Royal
Australian Air Force, No. 1 Air Crew Trainees’
Hardening Course, Adelaide, with family names
listed. Handwritten note on reverse reads:
‘Jaker. July 11th ’44. 4. P.D.’ 18.9 x 24.2 cm, on
mount 30.3 x 33.3 cm.
636
SRG 435/2/636
No. 1 Air Crew
Trainees’
Hardening
Course, Royal
Australian Air
Force
SRG 435/2/637888
Sgt. A.F. Hunter
red silk album
of Japan at the
end of the war
Red silk album with decoration on the cover of
252 black and white photographs, all captioned,
belonging to Sergeant Alexander Frank Hunter,
SX4795, of Adelaide, comprising: buildings,
tourist sites and local people in various cities
including Kure, Tokyo, Chofu and Kyoto;
Australian officers and troops including
Sergeants Hunter and Bond, Paymaster Lieut.
Clwyd Foulkes Parry, Sergeant Keith John
Rosenberg, Sergeant West. D.T., WO Carey. M,
Captain Bartley; British Commonwealth Bases;
Anzac Park in Kure; rebuilding after the war; air
strips and fighter squadrons, and battle ships.
Some photographs have been hand-coloured.
Album 26.5 x 35.3 x 3 cm. ca.1946-1948.
637
SRG 435/2/889
SA
Reinforcements
Australian Army
Medical Corps
Colour photocopy of a black and white
photograph of a group portrait of the South
Australian Reinforcements Australian Army
Medical Corps, taken at Puckapunyal, 3 June
1941. Names listed on mount. Signatures and
service numbers of the men are written on the
back of the mount. Photograph by C. Fitch &
Son, Melbourne. 1941.
413
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Squadron 1024
Black and white group portrait of Squadron 1024
taken in NSW before the Squadron went to New
Guinea. Edward (Ted) Bourne is back row,
second from left. Photograph by Toska Studio,
Shepparton. 15.4 x 18.8 cm, on mount 21 x 25.7
cm. ca.1944.
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SRG 435/2/891900
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Adelaide W/T
Station and
Lancaster crew
10 black and white photographs, comprising:
414
five group portraits of workers of the A, B, C, D,
and Day shifts at Adelaide W/T Station (all
names provided on backs of photographs); three
portraits of F/L Martin, F/O MacFarlane, and
W/O Phillips; a Lancaster bomber aircraft flying
over Adelaide Oval on 4 September 1943, and
the Lancaster crew at Parafield (names on
back). Photographs by Krischock. 19.5 x 24.9
cm or smaller. 1943.
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