Friday, April 25, 2025

Quartermaster, Captain Robert Dent, Essendon Rifles

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  Captain Robert Dent front right, wearing his South African War Queen's Medal with five clasps, and his Volunteer Decoration.  Robert s...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Life so full of promise, by Ross McMullin

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Ross McMullin is an award-winning historian, biographer, and storyteller. 'Life So Full of Promise' is his sequel to 'Farewell, ...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

The Oarsmen: The Remarkable Story of the Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace

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Available from libraries and bookstores. At the end of the Great War the Department of Defence was faced with the problem of repatriating te...
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A letter from Rabbit Hole VIlla, Gallipoli

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Typical accommodation on Gallipoli,  H03942  AWM Local AIF volunteer, George Gilchrist, of St Leonards Rd, Ascot Vale, survived the landing ...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

George Young's War

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Pozieres, pulverised by shelling, where George Young suffered shell shock.  AWM A05776 George Henry Young suffered a bit of a battering in t...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

State school teacher wounded at Gallipoli

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           Private Thomas Keddie, State school teacher at San Remo. Thomas Keddie, a State school teacher, enlisted in the AIF at the first ...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Private Yeats and the attack at Polygon Wood

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  Somme mud, 1916 (AWM P905380.002) Private William Yeats arrived in France in January 1917 in time to enjoy the worst winter in 40 years.  ...