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DESCENDANTS OF THE rats of tobruk australia Association inc
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Photo Gallery - Submissions from the Ranks

David Hinton
Sidney Amey( Photo Late 1940) 9th Div 2/10th Battalion wounded in Tobruk May 1941

Cpl. Walter William Ashton 2/1st Pioneer Battalion
Probably after his return from the Middle East and prior to going to New Guinea

Justin Phillpot
1941 ? As a member of the Tobruk Ferry Service HMAS Vendetta conducting troop transport operations (39 in total)

Justin Phillpot
Dennis Eady as a young gunner on HMAS VEndetta

Melissa Reaburn-Jenkin
Great Uncle Lawrence Miller taken on enlistment

LYNNE FARRELLY
1940 TAKEN ON ENLISTMENT

Kevin O'Rourke
QX8668 L/Cpl Vincent Joseph O'Rourke, Location unknown, maybe 1941

Michelle Wilson
Private David Wesley, Perth WA, 10 June 1942

Harold L Coppock
Captain Harold Tindall Coppock - Perth 1942

Jeffrey & Michelle Greenhill
1941 plaque, Douglas Frank Greenhill born 31/10/1918, medals

Alan Melbourne
James Allan MELBOURNE SX8937. Photo taken about 1943

Peter Gill
Floods in the Desert Possibly November 1941

Bernadette Davies May
Attached Attestation Form for Enlistment 13 July 1940

Joanne Buchanan
Jack William Scholfield KIA 14/04/1941

Gary Fradd
HMAS Tobruk II After Jackstay Memorial Port Pirie, S.A.

Peter Cobbe
My Father Sgt Frank Cobbe QX3608 2nd from right

Brian gardiner
Maori Pioneer battalion ww1 /Lieutenant George Gardiner 2/23 battalion ww2 dow 18th May 1941.

Geoff toll
In Cairo November 1941

Geoff toll
November 1941

Bernie Stevenson
On the boat coming home from the Middle East in 1942

Bernie Stevenson
Uncle John Thomas Stevenson QX13293 greeting 3 of his sisters at Mackay Railway Station in July 1942

Bernie Stevenson
Cousins Alfred William Jackson QX2737 and John Thomas Stevenson QX13293

Jenny Oakley
My father VX16163 Ronald Shapter (bottom right seated) and others in Palestine 1940

Ron Mitchell DOTROTA Member Number 480
Tobruk Sunday 19 March 2017. Rat of Tobruk Bill Mitchell of the 2/43rd Battalion with is son Ron Mitchell with the fig tree that Bill Mitchell (an orchardist) planted many years ago at the Tobruk Memorial at Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia in honour of the Fig Tree Hospital in Tobruk, Lybia.

Ron Mitchell DOTROTA Member Number 480
Tobruk Sunday, 19 March 2017. Rat of Tobruk Bill Mitchell of the 2/43rd Battalion walks through a Cadet Honour Guard at the beginning of the Tobruk Sunday commemoration, at the Tobruk Memorial, Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia
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