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Harry Phillips' daughter Isabel May (Rudge, 1903-2001) appears to be standing on the rock, c1910. This waterfall on the eastern side of North Lawson Park was named by local landowner Benjamin Roberts and his wife Alice after their daughter Effie Alice Frederica Chilvers Roberts in 1885. Effie Roberts (1882-1935) married Stephen Charles Watson in 1912.

This is a glass positive transparency by Harry Phillips. The painted effect was added around 1920 by his daughter Isabel (1903-2001), the girl in the photo. In an interview with Blue Mountains Library in 1985, she described how she worked with sable brushes and Japanese coloured inks This appears to be a composite image, the girl on the rock is not to correct scale.

HMAS Bendigo joined the Royal Navy's China Squadron based at Singapore in September 1941 and first saw action off Malaya in the Netherlands East Indies during the early months of the Pacific War. She returned to Australia on 8 March 1942 and escorted convoys in Australian and New Guinean waters until 1945. In March 1945 Bendigo joined the British Pacific Fleet and took part in the Battle of Okinawa.

Taken soon after the December 1957 bushfires, which destroyed 193 homes in Leura and Wentworth Falls. Although the ruins have since been demolished, the site remains undeveloped and is heritage listed.

Chateau Napier At Christmas 1910 the talk of the town in Leura was the newly opened guesthouse on the north eastern corner of the Bathurst Road and Leura Mall intersection. Named Napier, this imposing edifice had been erected for the McSweeney family by local contractors Mason, Heriot and Co., under the supervision of builder J.S. Nott That week the account of the official opening took up much space in a local paper, the Blue Mountain Echo. Guest of honour was the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Alderman Allen Taylor, who chaired the opening ceremony. This took the form of a dinner attended by more than a dozen well-known Sydney businessmen, as well as 130 local dignitaries, including Mayor Harry Goyder Speeches during the dinner paid many compliments to the hostess, Mrs McManus (a member of the McSweeney family) who had suggested the idea of the new guesthouse at Leura and was to be its manager for the next 25 years In those early years the Napier silverware was embossed with the guesthouse name and several pieces are held as artifacts by the Blue Mountains Historical Society By 1915 the name of the guesthouse was changed to Chateau Napier and it was perhaps about this time that the second phase of the building was added on the western end, increasing accommodation to its greatest capacity of 150 people

RMS Empress of Asia was an ocean liner built in 1912-1913 by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships As well as being a passenger liner in peacetime, Empress of Asia served as an armed merchant cruiser and a troopship in wartime. She was sunk during World War II by Japanese aircraft while transiting from Bombay to Singapore.

The Battle of Milne Bay (25 August - 7 September 1942), also known as Operation RE by the Japanese, was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Japanese naval troops, known as Kaigun Rikusentai (Special Naval Landing Forces), attacked the Allied airfields at Milne Bay that had been established on the eastern tip of New Guinea. Due to poor intelligence work, the Japanese miscalculated the size of the predominantly Australian garrison and, believing that the airfields were only defended by two or three companies, initially landed a force roughly equivalent in size to one battalion on 25 August 1942. The Allies, forewarned by intelligence from Ultra, had heavily reinforced the garrison TSMV Manunda was an Australian registered and crewed passenger ship which was converted to a hospital ship in 1940. During the war Manunda saw service in both the Middle East and Pacific Campaigns, specifically New Guinea. She resumed her passenger duties after the war, before being sold to a Japanese company and finally broken up in 1957.

Eleanor Dark (1901-1985). The vehicle, named 'Evangeline' , appears to be a 1919 T75 Napier 40/50 hp, 6 cyl. 6105 cc Possibly the Woolloomooloo docks are visible in the background, which would suggest a location on Mrs Macquarie's Rd above the Boy Charlton Pool.

Location unknown, no such place listed in any current gazetteer. Location matches the Java images of HMAS Bendigo in 1942.

HMAS Westralia (F95/C61) was an auxiliary cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built by Scottish shipbuilder Harland and Wolff and completed in 1929, Westralia was operated by the Huddart Parker company until 1939, when she was requisitioned for service with the RAN as an Armed Merchant Cruiser (AMC). Fitted with guns and commissioned in early 1940, Westralia was initially used to escort convoys in the Pacific and Indian oceans. In November 1940, the largest mutiny in RAN history occurred aboard the ship, with 104 men charged. (F95)

Location similar to Mount Lavina in previous photo, but no such place listed in any current gazetteer. Location matches the image below - Boys off Bendigo in Java 1942.

Jack served on HMAS Westralia as a Bofors gunner and landing barge pilot 1943 - 1945 HMAS Westralia (F95/C61) was an auxiliary cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built by Scottish shipbuilder Harland and Wolff and completed in 1929, Westralia was operated by the Huddart Parker company until 1939, when she was requisitioned for service with the RAN as an Armed Merchant Cruiser (AMC). Fitted with guns and commissioned in early 1940, Westralia was initially used to escort convoys in the Pacific and Indian oceans. In November 1940, the largest mutiny in RAN history occurred aboard the ship, with 104 men charged. (F95)