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Colour portrait of Corporal Cameron Stewart Baird
Cameron Stewart Baird VC MG
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Unit: 2nd Commando Regiment, 4th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
Service: Australian Army
A soldier standing on steps infront of a house
Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean
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Service: Australian Imperial Force
Service number: W11349
Lieutenant Colonel (LtCol) Charles Groves Wright Anderson VC MC, 2/19th Infantry Battalion
Charles Groves Wright Anderson VC MC
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Unit: 2/19th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 56th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, Commonwealth Military Forces (CMF), 3rd (Kenyan) Battalion Kings African Rifles
Service: Australian Imperial Force
Service number: NX12595
Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Charles Pope VC, 11th Battalion, of Perth WA, formerly of London, England
Charles Pope VC
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Unit: 11th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service: Australian Imperial Force
Portrait of a woman in nurse's uniform
Christine Erica (Strom) Bonwick
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Unit: Australian Army Nursing Service, 66th British General Hospital, 42nd British General Hospital, 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Dartford
Service: Australian Imperial Force
Service number: 198942
Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Clarence Smith Jeffries, 34th Battalion, of Wallsend, NSW.
Clarence Smith Jeffries VC
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Unit: 34th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service: Australian Imperial Force
Portrait of 1352 Sergeant Claud Charles Castleton, 5th Company, Australian Machine Gun Corps
Claud Charles Castleton VC
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Unit: 5th Australian Machine Gun Company AIF, 18th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service: Australian Imperial Force
Service number: 1352
Shirtless man with short hair stands in a hole in the ground beside a mound of rubble and holds a digging tool
Clement William Coolburra
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Unit: Royal Australian Engineers - 3 Field Troop and 1st Field Squadron, 7 Field Squadron
Service: Australian Army
Service number: 17587
Informal portrait of Lieutenant Clifford William King Sadlier VC, 51st Battalion
Clifford William King Sadlier VC
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Unit: 1st Australian General Hospital Australian Army Medical Corps, 51st Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 1st (Perth) Volunteer Defence Corps Battalion
Service: Australian Imperial Force
Service number: 2858, 4871, W48375
Soldier in uniform holding camera in a stairway
Damien Peter Parer
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Service: Civilian War Correspondent
Colour portrait of Corporal Daniel Alan Keighran
Daniel Alan Keighran VC
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Unit: 6th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment
Service: Australian Army
Studio portrait ofpilot in uniform
David Valentine Paul DFC
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Unit: No. 454 Squadron RAAF, No. 127 Squadron RAAF
Service: Royal Australian Air Force
Service number: 403215, O210106
Denis Stanley Gibbons AM
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Service: Civilian War Correspondent
Service number: NX1718384
A Indigenous female looks up to the side
Dolly Gurinyi Batcho
Unit: Aboriginal Women's Hygiene Squad, 69th Australian Women's Army Service Barracks
Service: Australian Army
Portrait of a woman in nurse uniform
Doris Ethel Sexton
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Unit: 15th Australian General Hospital, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Service: Australian Army Nursing Service
Portrait of Lieutenant Edgar Thomas Towner VC MC
Edgar Thomas Towner VC MC
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Unit: 25th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 2nd Australian Machine Gun Battalion AIF, 26th Battalion CMF
Service: Australian Imperial Force
Service number: 1067, Q30753
Portrait painting of a soldier in uniform
Edmund Francis 'Ned' Herring KCMG KBE DSO MC KC
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Unit: 6th Division Royal Australian Artillery, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, AIF Commands- I Corps, New Guinea Force, II Corps, 7th Military District, Northern Territory Force, 6th Australian Infantry Division, 22nd Field Artillery Brigade, British Army Commands - B Battery 99th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Service: Australian Imperial Force, British Army
Service number: VX15
A portrait of Private Edward John Francis Ryan VC
Edward John Francis Ryan VC
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Unit: 55th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service: Australian Imperial Force
Service number: 1717
A studio portrait of a male soldier.
Edward Kenna VC
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Unit: 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion AMF, 23/21st Battalion CMF
Service: Australian Army
Service number: VX102142, VX700330, V55955
A portrait of a naval officer in uniform
Edward Sheean VC
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Unit: HMAS Armidale, HMAS Kuttabul
Service: Royal Australian Navy
Service number: H1617