Private Joel Eade of Edward St, Essendon, soon impressed the AIF with his physical attributes, education and training and was promoted quickly to Company Quartermaster Sergeant. He embarked for Egypt early in 1916, but things began to go wrong. Read Rod Martin's account here.
A 1915 recruitment poster from the
Australian War Memorial Collection.
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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