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List of Australian Divisions in World War II* 1st Armoured Division* 2nd Armoured Division - also known as the 2nd Calvary Division and 2nd Motor Division* 3rd Armoured Division - also known as the 1st Calvary Division and 1st Motor Division* 1st Division* 2nd Division* 3rd Division* 4th Division* 5th Division* 6th Division* 7th Division* 8th Division* 9th Division* 10th Division* 11th Division...
The campaign in the Western Desert was fought between the Commonwealth forces (with, later, the addition of two brigades of Free French and one each of Polish and Greek troops) all based in Egypt, and the Axis forces (German and Italian) based in Libya. The battlefield, across which the fighting surged back and forth between 1940 and 1942, was the 1,000 kilometres of desert between Alexandria i...
Image right Courtesy of CWGC General Headquarters, Middle East Command was set up in Cairo shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, remaining there throughout the war years. In January 1941, a Royal Air Force Sector Headquarters for Fighter Defence Canal Zone was established. Cairo was also a significant hospital centre during the Second World War, as well as a leave centre with man...
A project for New Zealanders who were held as prisoners of war overseas during any field of war and those who were held as prisoners of war in New Zealand (eg. Featherston prisoner of war camp was a camp for captured Japanese soldiers during World War II).A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW, P/W, WP, PsW, enemy prisoner of war (EPW) or "missing-captured") is a person, whether combatant or non-comba...
=====Image above - © Copyright Stephen Craven and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . Geograph The Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede commemorates by name over 20,000 airmen who were lost in the Second World War during operations from bases in the United Kingdom and North and Western Europe, and who have no known graves. They served in Bomber, Fighter, Coastal, Transport, Flying T...
The campaign in the Western Desert was fought between the Commonwealth forces (with, later, the addition of two brigades of Free French and one each of Polish and Greek troops) all based in Egypt, and the Axis forces (German and Italian) based in Libya. The battlefield, across which the fighting surged back and forth between 1940 and 1942, was the 1,000 kilometres of desert between Alexandria i...
The Malta Memorial commemorates almost 2,300 airmen who lost their lives during the Second World War whilst serving with the Commonwealth Air Forces flying from bases in Austria, Italy, Sicily, islands of the Adriatic and Mediterranean, Malta, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, West Africa, Yugoslavia and Gibraltar, and who have no known grave. The Memorial was unveiled by The Queen on 3 May 1954. The ...
CWGC Ndola (Kansenshi) Cemetery Zambia Image Right Courtesy of CWGC This cemetery contains 23 War Dead concentrated from Abercorn European Cemetery and 2 concentrated from Livingstone Cemetery. It also contains a special memorial to 1 casualty known to be buried in Chikuula Military Grave and special memorials to 2 casualties formerly commemorated on the Ikawa (or Old Fife) Memorial, whose...
=====Images By Wernervc - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, ==Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, BelgiumThe cemetery was first used from September to December 1917 for burials from the 3rd Australian and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations, which had been moved to Poperinghe (now Poperinge) in preparation for the 1917 Battle of Ypres. The cemetery was used again by fighting units between...
"Chakdina" was built in 1914 at the outbreak of WW1. On 13 January 1940 it was requisitioned by Admiralty as an armed boarding vessel. On the late afternoon of 5 December 1941 the SS Chakdina had left Tobruk Harbour, Libya, carrying around 380 wounded Allied soldiers, 100 German and Italian Prisoners of War and 120 crew away from grossly overcrowded hospitals. A number of other Allied soldiers ...
The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944.There was heavy and fluctuating fighting in the vicinity of Tilly-sur-Seulles immediately after the landings involving chiefly the 49th and 50th Divisions. Tilly itself was not captured until 18 June and fighting continued nearby until mid July.The cemetery contains 990 Commonwealth burials of the Secon...
This page is an index to war memorials within New Zealand to those who died during war. It includes memorials from the New Zealand Wars, Boer War, World War I, World War II and those wars since. These memorials are often found in each community within New Zealand. An excellent source of information for those interested is the book The Sorrow and the Pride: New Zealand War Memorials by Chris McL...
Image Right - Courtesy of CWGC The town of Ambon, situated on Laitimor Peninsula on the southern shore of Ambon Bay, was severely damaged during the war, first by the Japanese who bombed it heavily in January 1942 and later by the Allied forces who attacked it in 1943 and 1944. After the fall of Ambon in February 1942, a former Dutch army camp on the island was used to hold Australian, America...