A priest conducting a Roman Catholic church service in a cave in Crete, May 1941
Members of the 6th Division Signals, Hania, Crete. They are holding loaves of bread
Receiving a haircut, near Suda Bay, Crete, May 1941.
A German soldier receiving the decoration of the Iron Cross, First Class, on the battlefield in Crete, May 1941
Smoke rising from troop positions ashore being bombed by German aircraft, Suda Bay, May 1941
Suda Bay, Crete, April 1941
German paratroopers jumping from their aircraft, Crete, May 1941
Writing home, Crete, May 1941
Two Australian soldiers preparing to bury the body of a German paratrooper, Crete 1941.
A photograph of Sfakia, on the southern coast of Crete, showing the steep mountain road by which Allied soldiers reached the beaches for evacuation.
A Bofors gun crew overlooking Suda Bay, Crete, April 1941.
Water spraying into the air from a near miss during an attack on HMAS Perth by German aircraft. Perth was evacuating Australian soldiers from Crete, May 1941
Twelve year old Maxwell Reece, son of Stoker Petty Officer William Reece, of HMAS Perth, receives the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) from Rear Admiral Muirhead Gould at Sydney, 2 April 1943. Petty Officer Reece was killed when the Perth was sunk during the Battle of Sunda Strait on 28 February-1 March 1942 and his DSM was awarded for his bravery during the evacuation of Crete, May 1941
German troops in Milos, Greece, waiting to board their Junkers 52 transport aircraft for the invasion of Crete, May 1941.
A free-hand drawing by an Australian soldier who escaped from Crete shows the area around Rethymno including the position of units, Allied and German, and prisoner of war cages.
Corporal Willoughby and his men of the 2/11th Battalion who were killed in action at Perivolia, Crete, 27 May 1941.
Top (left to right): Corporal Thomas Willoughby (AWM P02466.237): Private Francis Green (AWM P02466.298): Lance Corporal Arthur Dowsett (AWM P02466.271): Private George McDermid (AWM P02466.265): Bottom (left to right): Private Charles Brown (AWM P02466.260): Private Colin Elvy (AWM P02466.244): Private Ronald White (AWM P02466.299): Private John Fraser (AWM P02466.225)
Surrender of the Rethymno force at the airfield, May 1941. Seated in the foreground, facing the camera, is Captain Cliff Mott, 2/3 Field Regiment
A damaged German Junkers JU52/3M troop transport aircraft on the ground after being hit by anti-aircraft fire from the 2/4th Battalion, Heraklio, Crete, 20 May 1941.
Smoke and dust rise into the air during the German bombing of Heraklio, Crete, 20 May 1941.
Spray rising from the sea north of Heraklio as shells from HMAS Perth are fired at Greek caiques (fishing boats) full of German troops bound for Crete, 22 May 1941
Luftwaffe Stukas in flight, 1941.
HMS Dido being bombed by German aircraft in the Mediterranean off Crete, May 1941
German Stuka aircraft high above the guns of HMAS Perth, off Crete, 22 May 1941
Private C.E. Armstrong, 2/3rd Australian Infantry Battalion, arriving in Alexandria, Egypt, April 1941
Tea and rations being issued to troops after evacuation from Greece, Alexandria, Egypt, 28 April 1941.
The Chief of the Yugoslav Army being carried ashore in Alexandria after being badly wounded, 28 April 1941.
Maori soldiers arriving in Alexandria after evacuation from Crete, May 1941
Lieutenant General Blamey chatting to one of the men who escaped from Crete in a fishing craft, September 1941
Australian and New Zealand troops arriving at Alexandria after their evacuation from Crete, June 1941
Passport photograph of Sergeant Richard Sydney Turner MM (Military Medal), 6th Division, Australian Army Service Corps. Sergeant Turner was taken Prisoner of War (POW) by the Germans, and while marching towards a POW camp, escaped and was sheltered in a small Greek village. He spent autumn and winter of 1941—42 in the mountains of Thessaly, living in caves and a hollow tree. In 1943 Turner joined the Greek resistance (ELAS), and was later awarded the Military Medal for the resistance work he carried out in Greece. He was killed by Greek communist insurgents on his way to catch a flight home to Australia, and is buried in the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Kalamaki.
