Australians land on Brunei, June 45. This is great image - just look at how much is going on in this shot.
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Brunei '45


16 December 1942. Gona. The three Chapman brothers of South Australia, who all joined the 2/27th Infantry Battalion, pause for a break just after the fall of Gona. Left to right: SX12357 Private Maxwell Maurice Chapman; SX12689 Private Desmond Chapman; and SX10196 Private Raymond Chapman.
They survived the war.
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Three brothers


Men of the famed Australian 9th Infantry Division guard Italian and German POWS taken after Rommel's first unsuccessful assault on Tobruk in 1941.

Such was the fame and prowess of this Division, that three years later in Normandy, when fighting had bogged down as the Allies sought to break out, Major-General Francis de Guingaund, (Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Montgomery's Land-force Headquarters) said:

"My God, I wish we had 9th Australian Division with us this morning".

The Division saw action in North Africa and the Pacific, taking part in the battles of Tobruk; both El Alamein battles; New Guinea and Borneo...

http://www.diggerhistory.info/…/pages-2aif-cmf/9-div-aif.htm
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