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War and the services

379 photos1850–1986

379 historic photos for War and the services, taken between 1850 and 1986, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 13 decades, with the most from the 1940s (155). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.

1860s 1 1870s 2 1880s 3 1890s 4 1900s 13 1910s 27 1920s 20 1930s 125 1940s 155 1950s 19 1960s 8 1970s 1 1980s 1

1940s50 photos

Australian sailors leave on a troopship, Sydney, ca. 1943 - Sam Hood, c. 1943c. 1943War loans displays, State Theatre, 20-10-1943, by Sam Hood1943Australian Army paratroopers assembling a Short 25-pounder, 19441944A group of twentyfive RAAF Stores personnel four RAAF officers and one WAAAF officer and other ranks for Transport Group FO Darvall, 19441944Archbishop Mowll and Army Officers at ceremony at Town Hall YMCA Centenary, 19441944Army disposals Ford F60S 4wheel drive tiptruck taken for Mr McIntosh Ford Motor Truck Co Homebush, 19441944Australian Comforts Fund Salvation Army canteen truck outside the Sydney Town Hall taken for Australian Comforts Fund, 19441944Camp Library Service packing food cartons for Australian servicemen taken for Australian Comforts Fund, 19441944George Fitzpatrick Win the War function at Ushers, 19441944Honorary life governorship of the AIF Wives and Childrens Welfare Association conferred on Bob Hope Furlough House job, 19441944Personalities for Salvation Army, 19441944Salvation Army pageant at Town Hall, 19441944St Johns Ambulance annual parade at Government House taken for Mr W Stone Upfold Street Mayfield St Johns Sec Hamilton, 19441944Timber Homes Exhibition notice reads The post war home must be all electric in a city shop window, 19441944Two Ford mobile cinema units nos 28 111 gifts from Newcastle through ACF NSW Div operated by Australian Army Amenities Services for Miss Davidson Australian Comforts Fund, 19441944Unidentified image from group described in Hood register as Associated Press negatives some Union Theatres Capitol military Newspaper News, 19441944Women volunteers packing Camp Library Service boxes for servicemen taken for Australian Comforts Fund, 19441944Submarine XE4 at Sydney 19451945Sydney ferry BURRA BRA as converted to anti-submarine training ship in WW2, 19451945A submariner at the controls of a Royal Navy midget submarine in Sydney, Australia, 1945. A305701945Animals at War- Moving Day at HMS Golden Hind, Sydney, Australia, 10 July 1945 A297921945The Royal Navy during the Second World War A29810, 19451945Formidable Sydney Boom (AWM P00444-047), 19451945Sydney ferry KOONDOOLOO as converted to army repair craft S181, 1942–501942–50Bow Wow Parade taken for Acme Theatres, 19461946Childrens parade South Kensington Reno taken for Acme Theatres, 19461946Gift from the Irish Linen Spinning and Weaving Company through Red Cross to the Army military ambulance, 1945–471945–47Horse parade taken for Capitol Theatre, 19461946Bow Wow Parade (taken for Acme Theatres), 3-3-19461946Eastwood pet parade, 19471947Eastwood pet parade, 19471947Salvation Army Boys Home Bexley, 19471947Salvation Army camp Collaroy, 19471947Salvation Army old mens home, 19471947VAD parade Victoria Barracks, 19471947War Cry the commissioner and secretary, 19471947Backstage, Mark Foys fashion parade, Sydney, ca. 1947 - negative for PIX magazine, c. 1947c. 1947Hood 22400r, 19471947Eastwood pet parade, 5 September 1951, Sam Hood, 19471947Eastwood pet parade, 5 September 1951, Sam Hood, 19471947Salvation Army Finance Committee, 19481948Salvation Army veterans picnic at Training College, 19481948Salvation Army Youth Carnival Pratten Park, 19481948Senior St Johns Ambulance parade Government House, 19481948St Johns Ambulance Brigade cadets, 19481948St Johns Ambulance parade Town Hall, 19481948ACT (Association of Canadian Travellers) parade, 1950 (Association of Canadian Travellers parade float featuring 1948 Miss Calgary Stampede Gloria Klaver and Ladies-in-Waiting Margaret Forsgren and Shirley Kemp, 1948–501948–50Salvation Army - Surry Hills Sunday morning service in street, Sept 1949, from Series 02- Sydney people and streets, 1948-1950, photographed by Brian Bird1949Salvation Army - Surry Hills Sunday morning service in street, Sept 1949, from Series 02- Sydney people and streets, 1948-1950, photographed by Brian Bird1949Salvation Army - Surry Hills Sunday morning service in street, Sept 1949, from Series 02- Sydney people & streets, 1948-1950, photographed by Brian Bird1949

1950s10 photos

Submarine 'Tactician' 19501950Carmen Dell'Orifice, David Jones' American Fashion Parade, Sydney, 1950 - photographer Geoffrey Lee1950Mrs Inez Louisa Marden of Matraville, fundraiser for the troops during the Zulu, Sudan, Boer and First World Wars honoured by War Widows or nurses, Sydney, ca. 1950 - photographer Sam Hood, c. 1950c. 1950Carmen Dell'Orifice, David Jones' American Fashion Parade, Sydney, 1950 - photographer Geoffrey Lee1950Surgical unit, Korea, 1952 slnsw1952National service trainees passing out parade, 19521952Passing out parade, 19521952Cambrai march soldiers marching and wreath laying ceremony, 19531953Remembrance Day parade, 19531953Wattle Day wreath laying Alderman Purdue laying wreath on War Memorial in front of Post Office Hunter Street Newcastle, 19531953
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