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LOADING MILITARY TRUCKS ONTO RAILWAY WAGONS WORLD WAR 2 (GASOMETER IN BACKGROUND POSSIBLY WEST MELBOURNE.) - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

PRODUCTS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS WORKSHOPS AT ISLINGTON. 1941
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NORTH BORNEO. 1945-08-01
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Aerial view of Drouin town centre, Victoria, during World War II
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HOBART, TAS 1943-04-29. ONE OF THE TYPES OF LOCOMOTIVES USED BY SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT SERVICES ...
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TGR D class 2-4-2T Beyer Peacock 1891-1908

Burma. c. October 1945. Informal group portrait in front of a motorised rail car used for transporting the War Graves Commission survey party ...
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The tenth meeting of the war railway committee, Commonwealth Department of Transport ... viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1702… via @Library_Vic c. 1944
The rail 'power group'. Full description of personnel at link.

Able Seaman S4305 (AB) Edward Riters, HMAS Sydney, of Merrylands, NSW. He was an employee of the NSW Railways prior to enlisting in July 1940. AB Riters was one of 645 crew members of HMAS Sydney who were lost ...
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#LestWeForget

Kobe, Japan. September 1945. Former Australian Prisoners of War (POWs) are loaded into trucks as they prepare to leave Wakinohama Prisoner of War (POW) camp for the Kobe railway station on their way home ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. September 1945. Japanese rail cars used by the War Graves Commission survey party. This group's task was to locate prisoner of war (POW) cemeteries and grave sites along the Burma-Thailand railway. ...
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ATHERTON, QLD. 1944-12-13. CAPT E. WHISTON, (1), AND PTE M.G. CLOUGH, (2), RAILWAY TRAFFIC OFFICER STAFF AT NO. 10 MOVEMENT CONTROL GP.
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INNISFAIL, QLD. 1944-02-09. THE AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY TRAFFIC OFFICE STAFF OUTSIDE THEIR OFFICE AT THE RAILWAY STATION. THEY ARE:- QX32150 PRIVATE R.T. RANSOM (1); QX3723 PRIVATE T. COE (2); QX3645 LIEUTENANT W.T. TURNER (3).
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C. 1943. 2 TON AUSTIN AMBULANCES OF THE 2ND AUSTRALIAN AMBULANCE CAR COMPANY LINED UP ON THE PLATFORM AT ROSE HILL RAILWAY STATION TO MEET A HOSPITAL TRAIN.
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BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO, 2 AUGUST 1945. CORPORAL A J DOLDER, 2/125 BRIGADE WORKSHOPS, SUPERVISING THE NATIVE FIREMAN, PEEWEE, AS HE OILS THE LINKAGE OF AN OIL FIRED RAILWAY ENGINE WHICH HAS BEEN RECONDITIONED BY UNIT PERSONNEL.
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AUSTRALIAN EX PRISONERS OF WAR WHO HAVE HAD LIMBS AMPUTATED ARRIVED AT KALANG AIRPORT, SINGAPORE. SOME OF THE 'LEGGIES' ON ARRIVAL AT KALANG CIVIL AIRPORT FROM BANGKOK. MANY MEN ARE STILL CARRYING 'SWEAT RAGS' OUT OF FORCE OF HABIT.
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Still smiling ...

MELBOURNE, VIC. 2 AUGUST 1945. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES, THE FIRST OF THE 5 YEAR VETERANS, AT SPENCER STREET RAILWAY STATION ON THEIR WAY TO GENERAL DETAILS DEPOT FOR DISCHARGE.
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Melbourne, Vic. c.1945-11. Group portrait of the Gilchrist family following the return of Bob Gilchrist after spending three and a half years as a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese.
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Welcome home Digger ...

SHEPPARTON, VIC. 1944-01-24. MEMBERS OF THE AIF ENTERING TRUCKS OUTSIDE THE RAILWAY STATION TO BE DRIVEN TO THEIR CAMP. THESE MEN HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO PICK FRUIT FOR THE LOCAL ORCHARDISTS WHILE AWAITING DRAFT OVERSEAS.
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WANGARATTA, VIC. C. 1943-10-30. TROOPS LINING UP FOR A MEAL SERVED AT THE RAILWAY REFRESHMENT ROOMS ARE PASSENGERS OFF THE MELBOURNE TO BRISBANE TROOP TRAIN.
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MELBOURNE, VIC. 1944-01-05. RAAF AIR CREW ON SPENCER STREET RAILWAY STATION ON THEIR RETURN TO AUSTRALIA FROM OVERSEAS.
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MELBOURNE, VIC. 15 AUGUST 1945. CROWDS OF PEOPLE GATHERING AT FLINDERS STREET RAILWAY STATION SOON AFTER THE NEWS CAME THROUGH OF THE JAPANESE SURRENDER; CALLED VP (VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC) DAY.
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Princes Bridge station background.
#VPday

ADELAIDE RIVER, NT, 1943-09-04. A TRUCK AT THE ADELAIDE RIVER RAILWAY STATION, MODIFIED BY TROOPS IN ORDER TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE SUN.
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DARWIN AREA, NT. 1943-06-20. PETROL DRUMS ON RAILWAY TRUCK SET ALIGHT BY JAPANESE BOMBS DURING AIR RAID.
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MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-02-20. SERVICEMEN ON LEAVE FROM NEW GUINEA ON THE RAILWAY STATION AT THE END OF THEIR JOURNEY.
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ALBURY, NSW. 1945-09-07. STRETCHER CASES RETURNING TO MELBOURNE WAITING ON THE RAILWAY STATION AT ALBURY TO BE LIFTED ABOARD 6TH AMBULANCE TRAIN.
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An you thought it was inconvenient
" All change ALBURY! "

ALICE SPRINGS, AUSTRALIA. 1942-12-08. MEMBERS OF 147TH AUSTRALIAN GENERAL TRANSPORT COMPANY MARCHING TO ALICE SPRINGS RAILWAY STATION TO ENTRAIN FOR ADELAIDE. THE COMPANY HAS RECENTLY BEEN TRANSFERRED TO ADELAIDE FOR DUTY.
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SYDNEY, NSW 1945-10-16. A CROWD AT CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION WELCOMES 8TH DIVISION MEN RETURNING HOME. THEY HAD DISEMBARKED AT BRISBANE AFTER THEIR VOYAGE FROM SINGAPORE.
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QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA. 1944-02-08. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN THE MESS QUEUE AT THE ST. LAWRENCE RAILWAY STATION.
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US nurses pose for final photographs before their train leaves Canberra station on the first stage to the northern war zones. July 1942
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AUSTRALIAN NURSES IN NEW GUINEA. NURSES LEAVE THEIR MESS HUTS FOR WARDS AT AN AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL IN NEW GUINEA. 1 April 1943
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MELBOURNE, VIC 1945-11-29. A GROUP OF NURSES ON PARADE BEFORE MARCHING IN THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE (AANS) VICTORY PARADE.
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MELBOURNE, VIC 1945-11-29. AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE (AANS) VICTORY PARADE. THIS FLOAT FEATURING AN OPEN AIR WARD WITH PALM LEAF ROOF DEPICTED THE JUNGLE CONDITIONS FACED BY THE NURSING SERVICE IN THE PACIFIC.
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#VPday

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