The Empire Called and I Answered

  When War was declared in August 1914, Ern Latchford was working as an Instructional Officer at the 58B training depot in Ascot Vale.  Ins...

Australian War Memorial K00035 Fitting gas masks to horses is probably not the first thing which springs to mind when we think of traini...

The above newspaper photograph which includes Hugh Lindsay (Wren) Teale was spotted in Winner  by Cheryl Griffin, who is doing a mighty ...

  Ern Latchford as a member of the 6th Australian Infantry Regiment, aged 18, seen in the back row, second from the left.  His friend...

A machine-gun post on the Somme Canal - deceptively quiet in 1918.   Private William James Bale enlisted on Anzac Day 1917.  Once in ...