Historic Australia

Anzac Beach, Gallipoli. 1915. Australian soldiers struggling to get stranded life boats back into deeper water. (Donor JP Campbell)

1915. GALLIPOLI. SOLDIERS WITH THEIR WEAPONS AT THE READY IN THE FIRING LINE AT SHRAPNEL GULLY.

MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-02-25. A WALKING WOUNDED SOLDIER RECEIVES A BIG WELCOME HOME HUG FROM HIS WIFE AFTER HE DISEMBARKS FROM A HOSPITAL SHIP

Battery Commander’s dug-out, Hill 60

1917

- Dyson, Will

Australia uniform patch : Private C J Donovan, 5/7 Battalion (Mechanised) The Royal Australian Regiment

Australian soldiers with captured Japanese weapons

ca.1942

ARMOUR-PIERCING BOMB AS USED BY THE R.A.F. ALTHOUGH NOT PARTICULARLY MASSIVE IN SIZE, THE BOMB IS HIGHLY DESTRUCTIVE AND IS SPECIALLY DESIGNED TO PIERCE THE HEAVIEST ARMOUR.

12 inch armour piercing shell : HMAS Australia (1912-1924)

1913

svejk1888:

Four mates about to embark for service in Korea

stvitussdance:

Melbourne University Rifle Company, South Lawn, 1885.

See the dude in the back left corner? That’s Monash - Australia’s Tony Stark.

Before he was knighted, or became general of the Australian forces in WW1, or helped build Princes Bridge, or helped connect Victoria’s power grid, or fought for workers rights, he went to university AT SIXTEEN. He completed THREE masters - arts, engineering, and law.

His hirsuite ‘stache decorates our $100 bill.