The Empire Called and I Answered

In a letter to his mother in 1917,  a young soldier and former State School teacher,  James Stephen Hogan   explained carefully that...

Bill Tytler & Lillian Andrewartha's wedding,  21/11/1914.  Left to right: Hilary Watson, Stanley Tytler ,  Ina Tytler,  Bill Tytl...

22 Battalion, newly arrived from Egypt, going into line at the southern part of Lone Pine, 6 September 1915  AWM A00847 When Davey joine...

Artist Will Dyson: 22 nd Battalion men awaiting relief, near Ville sur Ancre, 1918. (AWM ART 19603) Benjamin Phillip James, a 40 ...

Well-wishers, some holding paper streamers connecting them to men on the ship, on the wharf prior to the departure of HMAT Anchises. Fo...

Gus as a member of the Essendon Rifles, 1915. Gus Stelling was a young man of great promise.  He was a lively boy who enjoyed life - he ...

This Darge photo was originally identified as S D C Simmon in the AWM collection, but they have lately agreed with my identification of th...

Ruins of a dye works at Erquinghem, December 1916, AWM H15704. Private Arthur William Findlay of Kensington was wounded at Erquinghem...

Bill Liston of Lincoln Rd, Essendon answered the call for recruits to help in the Middle East.  While in France he was struck by the numbe...

Trainees at the Broadmeadows Army Training Camp, Melbourne in about July 1915 Allen Evans' grandfather, Walter Napper Scott, is seco...

Australian troops in 'Sausage Valley', as the troops called Pozieres, in 1916.   Private Ellis Middleton of Bowen St, Moonee Pon...