| Accession No. |
Captions: |
| PIC 3403 / 1 |
Les Darcy (James Leslie
Darcy, 1896-1917 - boxer). |
| PIC 3403 / 2 |
Darcy didn't die of a broken
heart. Neither was he poisoned. This copy of a death certificate provided by
the health authorities in Tennessee show the real cause of death. |
| PIC 3403 / 3 |
This picture, hitherto
unpublished, was taken when Darcy was about eighteen. There is nothing that
indicates in this good natured pose, the fighting power that made him one of
the greatest middleweight boxers that ever donned gloves. |
| PIC 3403 / 4 |
RAAF Mustang, Point Cook,
VIC. |
| PIC 3403 / 5 |
Arrival at Mascot of the
first official TAA flight (Skyliner "Hawdon") from Melbourne, 9th September,
1946, after touchdown; 8.35 a.m. |
| PIC 3403 / 6 |
This map showing Empire
services of Qantas Empire Airways, B.O.A.C., and T.E.A.L. is interesting
because it shows the proposed Perth, Ceylon and Karachi service, which was top
secret at the time. Catalina services from Perth to Ceylon did not begin until
July 1943, and the Ceylon to Karachi service was begun in November, 1943. |
| PIC 3403 / 7 |
R.A.N Sea King
helicopters. |
| PIC 3403 / 8 |
An R.A.N Sea King
helicopter. |
| PIC 3403 / 9 |
"Killer Caldwell", Wodonga,
1976. Group Capt. Clive Caldwell, air ace, World War II. |
| PIC 3403 / 10 |
Hinkler's aircraft,
Queensland Museum (Bert Hinkler, early Australian pilot). |
| PIC 3403 / 11 |
[Air Express aircraft on the
tarmac] |
| PIC 3403 / 12 |
Wackett trainer, used by
Dutch Airforce in Indonesia, 1946. |
| PIC 3403 / 13 |
[One of Sid Beck's
planes] |
| PIC 3403 / 14 |
[Sid Beck at controls of a
plane] |
| PIC 3403 / 15 |
[Sid Beck repairing a
plane] |
| PIC 3403 / 16 |
[Sid Beck repairing a
plane] |
| PIC 3403 / 17a |
[Sid Beck sitting in a half
demolished plane] |
| PIC 3403 / 17b |
[Australasian POST, August 2,
1979, article on Sid Beck] |
| PIC 3403 / 18 |
Bren gun carrier at
Rockhampton Military Museum. |
| PIC 3403 / 19 |
"John Murray" ex. "Loch Ryan"
(sailing ship), 1877. |
| PIC 3403 / 20 |
Camden, 1966, restoring
albatross DV for war memorial. |
| PIC 3403 / 21 |
Lady snooker players,
Melbourne. |
| PIC 3403 / 22 |
"Loch Ryan" (sailing
ship). |
| PIC 3403 / 23 |
Sir Phillip Lynch and Alan
Renouf, Paris, 1968. |
| PIC 3403 / 24 |
Residents in the district
near Newcastle gaol, W.A, have provided many interesting links with Toodyay's
pioneering past. The costume was the type of dress worn by settlers almost a
hundred years ago (photograph also depicts a spinning wheel). |
| PIC 3403 / 25 |
Newcastle gaol, W.A, has now
been turned into a museum. Black and yellow convict garb and black uniforms
worn by the guards are displayed to tourists. |
| PIC 3403 / 26 |
The assembly yard at
Newcastle gaol. Here convicts assembled before going out on work parties in the
bush around Toodyay. Tourists walk casually around the prison confines. |
| PIC 3403 / 27 |
[Plaque with title Newcastle
gaol, 1869 - restored 1962 by Western Australian government for tourist
attraction] |
| PIC 3403 / 28 |
[Leg irons in the] prison at
Toodyay museum, W.A. |
| PIC 3403 / 29 |
[Old cart with wooden
wheels] |
| PIC 3403 / 30 |
[Old locomotive engine] |
| PIC 3403 / 31 |
[Old buggy with broken wheel,
Toodyay, W.A] |
| PIC 3403 / 32 |
Prison at Toodyay, W.A. |
| PIC 3403 / 33 |
Mayor Pilbeam (left) unveils
statue of bull, Rockhampton, 1979. |
| PIC 3403 / 34 |
French migrants at Perpignan
[France], Morton (press attache) shows map. Photo taken by Paul Jauzac. |
| PIC 3403 / 35 |
Cricket bowling machine
designed by C.I.A.E (Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education) engineering
students, Rockhampton. |
| PIC 3403 / 36 |
Actor Michael Pate (right)
[and friends] on Kepper Island, Queensland. |
| PIC 3403 / 37 |
Old buggy, Toodyay, W.A. |
| PIC 3403 / 38 |
Australian school children in
Victoria raised money to build a school at Villers Bretonneux, France. Original
school had been destroyed in 1914-18 war. 1st AIF fought a valiant action at
Villers Bretonneux. |
| PIC 3403 / 39 |
War memorial at Villers
Bretonneux, France. |
| PIC 3403 / 40 |
Memorial to AIF at Villers
Bretonneux, France. |
| PIC 3403 / 41 |
School at Villers Bretonneux,
France. Memorial to AIF. |
| PIC 3403 / 42 |
Agent General of Victoria?
(Dickie?) with school children at Villers Bretonneux, France. War
1914-1918. |
| PIC 3403 / 43 |
Caudron 63 in flight |
| PIC 3403 / 44 |
[Coffin on an old style
hearse] |
| PIC 3403 / 45 |
Wills descendants look at
grave of Horatio Wills, Springvale, Queensland. |
| PIC 3403 / 46 |
[Postcard from 'Twin Cities',
Wodonga - Albury] |
| PIC 3403 / 47 |
YEIN, [Ken] Warby, World
Speed Boat Champion. |
| PIC 3403 / 48 |
YEIN, [Ken] Warby, World
Speed Boat Champion. |
| PIC 3403 / 49 |
[Ken] Warby |
| PIC 3403 / 50 |
[Ken] Warby |
| PIC 3403 / 51 |
School children at memorial
school Villers Bretonneux, memorial to AIF 1914-1918. |
| PIC 3403 / 52 |
The mail under Police Escort
arrives from Albany, 1889 |
| PIC 3403 / 53 |
Bertram was lucky to come out
of the North West, alive. During the forty days he was lost in the bush, he had
nothing to eat other than al lizard and a small fish. He owes his live to
Australian Aborigines of the North West. |
| PIC 3403 / 54 |
This recent photograph of
Eric Roberts was taken at his home in Melbourne. He is waring the flying helmet
he used during his instructing days in the thirties in Melbourne and in
Montreal, Canada. The book he is reading is his autobiography "Box Kites and
Beyond", which traces his career in aviation from Point Cook Cadet to senior
administrative officer in the RAAF in World War 2. |
| PIC 3403 / 55 |
Lili Alvarez, Spanish
Wimbledon tennis championship of 30's with Spanish journalists, Sydney,
1968 |
| PIC 3403 / 56 |
Early mail van |
| PIC 3403 / 57 |
Ken Warby, an Australian and
world Power Boat champion. |
| PIC 3403 / 58 |
Stefan Rosen, Director
Swedish News Agency TT, with Morton, 1967 |
| PIC 3403 / 59 |
Early fire fighting
equipment |
| PIC 3403 / 60 |
[Plaque erected by the
Kosciusko State Park Trust on the site the "Southern Cloud" aircraft was
lost] |
| PIC 3403 / 61 |
Kingsford-Smith and Ann Mae
Wess, London, 1917 |
| PIC 3403 / 62 |
After the "Southern Cross"
arrived in Brisbane on completing the first transpacific crossing, the crew
flew the aircraft down to the RAAF base at Richmond, NSW. The two Americans,
Warner and Lyons were to bow out of the Australian aviation limelight with
little financial reward for the part they played in the fight. |
| PIC 3403 / 63 |
Kingsford-smith arrives,
Melbourne |
| PIC 3403 / 64 |
Kingsford-Smith with Will
Rogers |
| PIC 3403 / 65 |
Southern Cross, over
Wellington, 1933 |
| PIC 3403 / 66 |
[Southern Cross] at Richmond,
NSW, after flight from U.S.A |
| PIC 3403 / 67 |
[Southern Cross] at Pt.
Cook |
| PIC 3403 / 68 |
[Southern Cross] at Pt.
Cook |
| PIC 3403 / 69 |
[Southern Cross] at Pt.
Cook |
| PIC 3403 / 70 |
"Southern Cross" being flown
by RAAF pilots for the film "Smithy" in 1945-46 |
| PIC 3403 / 71 |
"Southern Cross" being flown
by RAAF pilots for the film "Smithy" in 1945-46 |
| PIC 3403 / 72 |
Southern Cross takes off from
Oetland?, 1928 |
| PIC 3403 / 73 |
Beau Sheil with
Kingsford-Smith when the "Southern Cross" made its last flight in July
1935. |
| PIC 3403 / 74 |
Southern Cross at
Richmond |
| PIC 3403 / 75 |
Southern Cross (centre)
Bristol? Fighter (right) at Wigram, 1928 |
| PIC 3403 / 76 |
From left to right: Captain
Bill Taylor, Charles Ulm, Captain Scotty Allan and Bob Boulton at Forbes NSW
where maximum load tests were carried out on the "Faith in Australia" in June
1933 |
| PIC 3403 / 77 |
Bob Boulton (right) flew in
the first all Australian air mail between Australia and England. The flight, in
the "Southern Sun" of Australian National Airways, commenced in Hobart on
November 19 1931. Les Callaghan (left) was the radio operator. |
| PIC 3403 / 78 |
1933, Nancy Bird in one of
Smithies' moths learning to fly |
| PIC 3403 / 79 |
Bristol F2B's of N.Z.P.A.F.
at Westmere, near Wanganui, 1928 |
| PIC 3403 / 80 |
"Scotty" Allan starts up the
motors of the "Faith in Australia. |
| PIC 3403 / 81 |
Joe Drage flying a DH62 Gypsy
Moth (1967), built in 1929 and bearing the serial number VH-ULM. It is thought
to have once been flown by the Australian pioneer aviator Charles Ulm.
Australian Museum for Active Aircraft at Wodonga, in northern Victoria, it is
called Drage's Aircraft Museum, yet every exhibit, be it of wood and cloth, or
an early all-metal model, it is registered to fly. Some of the aircraft are
nearly 50 years old, but they carry their years well. They have not been
modified and have their original engines, kept fine-tuned, to purr like a
kitten or roar like a lion as required. The bodywork and instruments are just
as they came from the factory. There has been no fancy paint work added, just
touches of the original colours, when needed. Joe Drage, who owns the museum,
learned to fly in 1954. He flies the 17 aircraft in his museum, of widely
different types and vintages and is licensed to fly 19 other types. |
| PIC 3403 / 82 |
Southern Cross, 1928 |
| PIC 3403 / 83 |
Crew of the Southern Cross,
before the transpacific flight, 1928 |
| PIC 3403 / 84 |
"Southern Cross" at Rongotai
Airport, Wellington, 1933 |
| PIC 3403 / 85 |
["Southern Cross Junior",
AVIAN, British Aerospace |
| PIC 3403 / 86 |
Hundreds of Australians got
their first taste of flying when the "Southern Cross" went on barnstorming
tours throughout Australian country areas. |
| PIC 3403 / 87 |
["Southern Cross
Junior"] |
| PIC 3403 / 88 |
Before Australia flight -
Hounslow, England 12th November, 1919, Vickers Vimy |
| PIC 3403 / 89 |
Inside Sir Ross Smith
Memorial Building |
| PIC 3403 / 90 |
Preparations for Australian
Trip, Vickers Vimy |
| PIC 3403 / 91 |
Vickers Vimy - Ross and Keith
Smith, J.M. Bennett, W.H. Shiers |
| PIC 3403 / 92 |
Inside Sir Ross Smith
Memorial Building |
| PIC 3403 / 93 |
Before Australia flight, 1919
- Hounslow, England |
| PIC 3403 / 94 |
Sir Ross Smith Memorial
Building at Adelaide Airport, South Australia |
| PIC 3403 / 95 |
F111 |
| PIC 3403 / 96 |
F111 over Gold Coast |
| PIC 3403 / 97 |
F111 cockpit |
| PIC 3403 / 98 |
VARIABLE WING FIGHTER - The
new F-11 supersonic tactical fighter is shown to the public at recent rollout
ceremonies in Fort Worth, Texas. Under development for the U.S. Air Force and
Navy, the craft has moveable wings, kept in forward position (as shown) for
take-offs and landings, and in swept position for high speed, high altitude
flight. The plane is designed to land on short runways at speeds slower than
conventional fighters. |
| PIC 3403 / 99 |
F-111 MOVABLE-WING FIGHTER -
Drawing of the F-111 two-man tactical fighter, under development for the U.S.
air Force and Navy. The supersonic craft has moveable wings, kept in forward
position for take-offs and landings, and in swept position for high speed, high
altitude flight. It is designed to land on short runways at speeds slower than
conventional fighters. First flights are expected in 1965. |
| PIC 3403 / 100 |
The Aussie airman of the
future will emerge after three years training, with a Bachelor of Science
degree and thoroughly trained in the intricate skills needed to keep a Mirage
or the F111 in the air as an effective fighting machine. Part of the
continuation training after graduation will come in the form of regular
sessions on the ejection seat simulator so that all aircrew will be familiar
with emergency procedures. |
| PIC 3403 / 101 |
The technician in the modern
R.A.A.F is a highly skilled individual. L.A.C. Stephenson of Liverpool N.S.W
and Corporal Denning of Wentworthville N.S.W had several months training in the
United Kingdom in the construction and operation of aircraft simulators. This
Hercules simulator will be used to convert Aussie pilots to flying the Giant
Herk, as well as providing continuation training for qualified Hercules
pilots. |
| PIC 3403 / 102 |
F111 |
| PIC 3403 / 103 |
F111 |
| PIC 3403 / 104 |
Ambassador Paris Renouf with
Dickie (Agent General Victoria?) with school children Villers Bretonneux,
France, War 1914-18 |
| PIC 3403 / 105 |
F111 |