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- Essendonian
- Essendon, Victoria, Australia
- I have created a commemorative online database of the WW1 volunteers of Essendon and Flemington in Victoria, with a blog to support the website: see link below. I have other websites and blogs which follow other interests.
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- Farewell, dear people: biographies of Australia's lost generation, by Ross McMullen.
- Anzac Legacies: Australians and the aftermath of war, ed. by Martin Crotty and Marina Larsson
- What's Wrong with Anzac? The militarisation of Australian History, by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds
- A Distant Grief, by Bart Ziino
- Bad Characters: sex, crime, mutiny, murder and the Australian Imperial Force, by Peter Stanley
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Remembering 'the mothers of Ryde' who lost their boys in WWI - This Mother's Day we think of all the mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters who lost their boys during the battles of World War I. Many would hav...
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Celebrating all our heroes - This is the opinion piece I wrote for the Canberra Times; it appears in the 14 March 2013 edition of the paper. Success in life requires three things – sho...2 months ago
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Silver War Badge: Private Theodore Kenneth McLachlan, 58 Battalion, AIF - *ID Number* PERS017 *Title* Silver War Badge: Private Theodore Kenneth McLachlan, 58 Battalion,* *AIF *Maker *Unknown *Obje...
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Private William Heyer of Upper Sturt - William Heyer was the second and youngest son of William Heyer and Mary Ann Heyer (nee Zachariah). He was born at Upper Sturt on 19 July 1893. The family...
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Brunswick
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Bullecourt
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Commonwealth Clothing Factory
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Cordite Factory
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court martial
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Croix de Guerre
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deserters
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despatch rider
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diary transcription
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discharge certificate
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Doig Gordon
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Doutta Galla Hotel
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Egypt
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Elliott (Pompey)
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Essendon
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Essendon Baptist Church
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Essendon City Council certificate
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Essendon Red Cross Society
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Essendon Town Hall
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Malvern Tramways Museum
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Maribyrnong
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Maribyrnong-Bagotville Hill Memorial
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Martin Rod
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Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board
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Melbourne Cricket Club
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Melbourne Teachers College
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memorabilia
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Mena
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Menin Road
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Messines
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Metropolitan Gas Company
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Middleton
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Military Cross
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Moonee Ponds
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Morgan
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Mortar Battery
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Museum Victoria
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National Museum
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Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
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Nelson
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Newmarket Reserve
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Newmarket saleyards
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North Essendon Methodist Church
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North Melbourne and Essendon Tramways and Electric Light Company
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Northern Golf Club
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Olympic Games 1908
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Smithfield Road
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St Paul's Church of England
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St Thomas' Anglican Church
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State Library of Victoria
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stretcher bearers
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Third Ypres
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Thuillier Collection
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Tidworth
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Tramways Board
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tunnelling
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underage
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unknown soldier
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Victorian War Heritage Inventory
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war bride
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Williams Bros Album
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