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Australian Imperial Force
The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) was the name given to all-volunteer Australian Army forces dispatched to fight overseas during World War I and World War II.
Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the Commonwealth Military Forces were formed with a small regular army and a larger...
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Hudson Fysh
Sir Wilmot Hudson Fysh KBE, DFC (7 January 1895—6 April 1974) was an Australian aviator and businessman. A founder of the Australian airline company Qantas, Fysh was born in Launceston, Tasmania. Serving in the Battle of Gallipoli and Palestine...
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Cecil MacFarlane
In 1937 I was about seventeen years old. At the time in the same year a military platoon was formed in the town of Wentworth, where I was born. I joined up although I was only seventeen. I was Cadet until I reached the age of eighteen then I became a...
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- 1938
William Robert MacFarlane
MCFARLANE, William Robert Gnr. VX.46929 A.I.F.4A/Tk.Regt.,Royal Australian 1944/12/27 24 croup pneumonia Aust. Yokohama Cemet
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- Dec 27, 1944
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Ross Macpherson Smith
Sir Ross Macpherson Smith KBE, MC & Bar, DFC & Two Bars, AFC (4 December 1892 – 13 April 1922) was an Australian aviator, who, along with his brother, Sir Keith Macpherson Smith, became the first pilots to fly from England to Australia, (in 1919)....
Alec Campbell
Alec William Campbell (26 February 1899 – 16 May 2002) was the final surviving Australian participant in the Battle of Gallipoli during the First World War. His death broke the last living link of Australians with the Gallipoli story.
Alec Campbell...
Ernest Albert Corey
Ernest Albert Corey MM & Three Bars (20 December 1892 – 25 August 1972) was a distinguished Australian soldier who served as a stretcher bearer during the First World War. He enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force on 13 January 1916, and...
Walter Parker
Walter Parker (11 August 1894 – 22 January 2000) was an Australian centenarian, one of the last three living veterans of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served in World War I.
Parker's pre-war plans for a career in Sydney as a...
Roy Longmore
Roy Longmore (29 April 1894 – 21 June 2001) was an Australian centenarian, and one of the last two living veterans of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) serving in World War I.
Longmore set aside his life as a farm-hand in Geelong,...
Billy Sing
William Edward Sing DCM (1886 - 19 May 1943) was an Australian soldier of World War I, and distinguished sniper during the Gallipoli Campaign.
Sing was born in Clermont, Queensland, in 1886, of Anglo-Chinese ancestry, to John Sing (of Shanghai,...
William Jackson
John William Alexander Jackson VC (13 September 1897 - 4 August 1959) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and...
Maurice Vincent Buckley
Maurice Vincent Buckley VC, DCM (13 April 1891 – 27 January 1921) was an Australian soldier serving under the pseudonym Gerald Sexton who was awarded the Victoria Cross during the First World War. This is the most prestigious award for gallantry in...
Peter Casserly
Peter Casserly (28 January 1898 – 24 June 2005) was the last surviving member of the 1st AIF serving in France in the First World War. At the time of the death, he was believed to be the oldest living Australian male, and his marriage to Monica...
Joseph Maxwell
Joseph "Joe" Maxwell VC, MC & Bar, DCM (10 February 1896 – 6 July 1967) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of British and Commonwealth...
