Posted 9 years ago
ron1939
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From left Picture of Poppies That grew in the Battlefields of France
Poppies now Sold 11 November [end of War]1918 to raise funds
For Returned Soldiers league. Tins Ten inch by Seven inch
Second tin Kokoda Battle for New Guinea 1942 against Japanese,.
Third . Leaving for War Commemorating 100 years from 1914.
Fourth Tobruk [Port] 1941 North Africa Siege held out for 6 months
Till relieved 7.500 casualties but stopped Rommel Afrika Korps.
Fifth tin .Letter [ I never knew my Father] wrote by a man whose father
was captured by Japanese ,160 Australians at Rabaul New Guinea
taken at Tol Plantation marched into jungle and shot,photo of soldier
and son on tin front. Sixth tin Vietnam 1962- 1975