Sergeant Leo James Harty of Normanby Street, Moonee Ponds, survived the landing at Gallipoli and the battle of Lone Pine, but was probably killed in the bombardment at Messines in 1916. Rod Martin tells his story here. The photograph, by John Philpott, shows the Berks Cemetery Extension where Leo was buried.
Remembering 'the mothers of Ryde' who lost their boys in WWI
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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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