The Empire Called and I Answered

Unknown Album, circa 1914-1918 . Courtesy of the State Library of Victoria Collection. The photo above was contained on page 42 of  a p...

Albert 'Berty' Olley , a butcher from Ascot Vale, was one of thousands who answered the call in July 1915.  Rod Martin recounts Be...

Thought to be the 3rd Reinforcments of the 14th Battalion, courtesy of Jenny Fawcett.  The above photo was recently the subject of a bl...

Pte Roy Easton died of wounds after a trench raid in 1916.  The originals and copies of  his letters to his family in 1915 and 1916 were...

SS Makarini at Port Melbourne, 1915, with troops abord.  AWM PB0537. In his latest story Rod Martin describes Private George Roy Lancas...

Reg Jones of Shaftesbury St, Essendon left Australia with the AIF as a Corporal with the 14 Inf Bn, and returned home as a Captain with a ...

Captain Reginald Walter Jones of the 14th Infantry Battalion was an electrician from Essendon.  The History of the 14th Infantry Battalion...

Len McKay joined up in July 1915 and found himself in the fleshpots of Cairo before a more serious engagement in France with the 14th ...

  Fellow officer Lieutenant Ted Rule remarked of Viv Garner that " the boys were closely attached to him" and that "he wa...

No 2915 Private Ernest (Ern) Edward Warry is standing in the back row, fourth from the left.  Ern left Australia in September 1915 on t...

  Bert Manderson (front left) of the 6th Infantry Battalion, and his brother Ernie Manderson (front right) of the 14th Infantry Bat...