http://www.flickr.com/photos/australian-war-memorial/tags/mammalia/ Tue, 12 May 2009 17:27:16 -0700 Tue, 12 May 2009 17:27:16 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3251/buddyicons/30115723@N02.jpg?1237172404#30115723@N02 http://www.flickr.com/photos/australian-war-memorial/tags/mammalia/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/australian-war-memorial/3527155248/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/australian-war-memorial/">Australian War Memorial collection</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/australian-war-memorial/3527155248/" title="'Ferdie', the Pygmy Flying Phalanger, 1945"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3569/3527155248_1b2daaa800_m.jpg" width="240" height="164" alt="'Ferdie', the Pygmy Flying Phalanger, 1945" /></a></p> <p>ID Number: OG2824 <br /> Maker: John Thomas Harrison<br /> Place made: Halmahera Islands, Morotai<br /> <br /> 'Ferdie', the Pygmy Flying Phalanger, is on active service with a famous RAAF Spitfire squadron. He belongs to O35898 Flying Officer (FO) Robert Addison of Elwood, Vic, who brought him from Bathurst Island. 'Ferdie' spent a wild youth, but now is a reformed character. When he reached the larrikin stage, he acquired a taste for beer and could drink a long tablespoon with any squirrel, but at aerobatics, his judgment went to pieces after twenty minutes intermittent drinking, he even fell into a full glass of beer. Since then, not a drop of liquor has passed his lips. As one of the squadron's mascots, the teetotal possum met with a lot of competition. Among his rivals were fifteen dogs, a cat, another possum and a rooster. FO Addison claims Ferdie's success was due to his reputation for temperate living.<br /> <br /> Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions.<br /> <br /> This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection <a href="http://www.awm.gov.au">www.awm.gov.au</a><br /> <br /> Persistent URL:<a href="http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/OG2824">http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/OG2824</a></p> Tue, 12 May 2009 17:27:16 -0700 1945-06-14T12:00:27-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Australian War Memorial collection) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/3527155248 'Ferdie', the Pygmy Flying Phalanger, 1945 <p>ID Number: OG2824 <br /> Maker: John Thomas Harrison<br /> Place made: Halmahera Islands, Morotai<br /> <br /> 'Ferdie', the Pygmy Flying Phalanger, is on active service with a famous RAAF Spitfire squadron. He belongs to O35898 Flying Officer (FO) Robert Addison of Elwood, Vic, who brought him from Bathurst Island. 'Ferdie' spent a wild youth, but now is a reformed character. When he reached the larrikin stage, he acquired a taste for beer and could drink a long tablespoon with any squirrel, but at aerobatics, his judgment went to pieces after twenty minutes intermittent drinking, he even fell into a full glass of beer. Since then, not a drop of liquor has passed his lips. As one of the squadron's mascots, the teetotal possum met with a lot of competition. Among his rivals were fifteen dogs, a cat, another possum and a rooster. FO Addison claims Ferdie's success was due to his reputation for temperate living.<br /> <br /> Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions.<br /> <br /> This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection <a href="http://www.awm.gov.au">www.awm.gov.au</a><br /> <br /> Persistent URL:<a href="http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/OG2824">http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/OG2824</a></p> Australian War Memorial collection pet man robert hat animal soldier person uniform mascot ww2 soldiers spitfire glider addison marsupial 1945 raaf animalia mammalia secondworldwar squadron australianwarmemorial ferdie chordata diprotodontia marsupialia petaurus flyingofficer petauridae robertaddison flyingphalanger pygmyflyingphalanger http://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/