Memorabilia Display
Mount Gambier Community RSL is understandably proud of its extensive memorabilia and
wartime photographic display, arguably one of the best in Australia, after the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Items range from an 1815 sabre from the battle of Waterloo, Boer War weapons, Spandau WW1 machine guns, WWII weapons and photographs to a restored Mark II Long Barrel 25 pounder Field Artillery piece. Each item has been catalogued for ease of viewing.
When in Mount Gambier make sure that you visit the Mount Gambier
Community
RSL and enjoy the hospitality while viewing the display.
Photographs
While you are here view some of the photographs we have on show.
Native Police boy Bugler
Angau native Police boy Bugler.
This is one of the finest types seen on Bougainville.
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Japanese Submarine
Divers at work in Sydney Harbour
on a sunken Japanese Submarine.
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Avenger Plane
The engine of this Avenger failed as it left
the flight deck of a carrier after replenishing
its fuel and ammunition.
The Pilot made a successful crash landing
on the sea and calmly walked away.
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Inspecting a Matilda Tank
Australian infantrymen inspecting a
Matilda tank knocked out by the Japanese on Bougainville.
Left to right: Lance Corporal R.J.Chambers, (Melbourne)
and
Corporal J. Stopford (Sydney).
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Attack on Carrier Ship
During the attack on Sakishima Gunto by a Task Force
of the British Pacific Fleet, a Japanese suicide plane
exploded in the sea alongside one of the ships of the force.
Royal Official Photograph.
Crown Copyright Reserved.
For release Morning Papers 31st, May, 1945
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Overlooking the Wrecked Harbour
Infantry of the 6th Division on a hill overlooking the wrecked harbour, examining a Japanese
medium
Machine Gun in the defensive
positions they had overrun.
Smashed barges and other small craft can
be seen littering the waterfront.
Most of these fell to Allied bombing.
Australian Official Photograph.
Passed by Publicity Censorship 18/5/45.
Morning and Provincial Papers.
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