World War II

Register of enlistments from Council staff for overseas service, 1940

File - Chief Warden's petty cash vouchers for reimbursement, 1940-1943

Roll of Enlistments in the Erskineville Patriotic & War Comforts Fund, 1941

File - Housing and local government town planning, post War, 1943-1947

File - Victory Day Celebrations - 10th June, 1946

File - Post War Street reconstruction progress reports, 1946-1947

File - Invitation to join Peace Celebrations Committee, Sydney, 1945

File - Service of Thanksgiving on signing of Armistice, 1945

File - Offer to forward twenty wedding gowns for Australian servicewomen, 1944-1947

File - Collaboration of governments - Post war reconstruction, 1943-1944

File - Post War Reconstruction Conference, 1943-1945

File - War Damage to Buildings - Responsibility for costs of clearing roadways following demolition, 1943

File - NSW Reconstruction Advisory Committee - Post - war work schemes, 1943-1944

File - War savings certificates and stamps - Proposed formation of Ward Committees, 1943

Retirement of employees upon reaching 65 years of age. Retention in Service for duration of war.

File - Employees returning from War Service - resumption of work, 1941

File - Effects of War on Children's Playgrounds, 1940-1942

File - Australia's War Effort. Suggestions whereby Council might assist, 1940

File - Employment of temporary male clerks and female office Assistants, 1939-1941

AIF troops marching, Central Station, Railway Colonnade Drive Haymarket, 1940

AIF troops marching towards Central Station, Haymarket, 1940

AIF troops marching, Central Station, Railway Colonnade Drive Haymarket, 1940

Troopship QUEEN MARY, with Australian troops of the 6 Division, 1940

British battleship HMS DUKE OF YORK enters Woolloomooloo Bay, 1945

AQUITANIA with troops convoy US8, 1941

Deconstruction of the GPO clock tower during World War 2, Martin Place Sydney, 1942

Street photograph of soldier and man in business suit, circa 1940-1942

World War II - Servicewomen Memorial, 2000

World War II air raid exercises, Crown Street Womens Hospital, Surry Hills, 1941

Women in World War II air raid exercises, Crown Street Womens Hospital, Surry Hills, 1941

Consultant Committee of the Lord Mayor's Patriotic & War Fund , 1946

ANZAC War Memorial & Pool of Reflection, Hyde Park, circa 1940s

Air raid shelters in Shannon Reserve Surry Hills, circa 1940

Minutes of the Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund II

Air Raid Shelter Plans

Air Raid Shelter Register

War Comfort Funds and Staff Enlistment Papers, Erskineville National Emergency Service (NES)

Paddington War Damage Assessment Rolls

Air Raid Shelter Files, 1942-1945

Municipality of Waterloo, War Memorial, Elizabeth Street Waterloo, 1946

Plan - Dance Hall, Australian Comforts Fund, Jewish Women's Café, Martin Place, 1944

Plan - Town Hall World War II Commemorative Plaque, no date

Plan - Phillip Park Air Raid Shelter, 13-17 Riley Street Woolloomooloo, 1942

Plan - Lord Mayors Patriotic War Fund Depot, Martin Place and Phillip Street Sydney, 1941

A state at war: the official history of the Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund of New South Wales

A very rude awakening: the night the Japanese midget subs came to Sydney Harbour/ Peter Grose

Cotton bag - Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund, 1940 - 1947