The Empire Called and I Answered

 In the above photo, the stretcher-bearer in the front row, far right, has been identified by John McKenzie as his grandfat...

“Back from the line unwashed, unshaved.  The brothers Williams, both as fit as fiddles, France 8/5/17”.  It has taken a while to load ...

Shorty Jackson on the left, and James Simonsen on the right.  James Andrew Simonsen's grandson says that his grandfather had a great...

Back to the Williams' brothers photograph album, featuring men of the 6th and 12 Field Ambulance Brigades in France and Belgium in 1916 ...

The man standing in the doorway was identified on the back as W Keating.  On the same embarkation roll page for Gordon Williams was a Walt...

3355 George Gordon Williams is standing on the right in the photo above,  but who is on the left?  He is wearing a nice watch.

"Tent Group outside waggons at Oasis". "Tent pitching Showing Heliopolis.  Col Hardie, Capt...

Based on the fact that Gordon Williams seems to have usually had his photo taken with a pipe between his teeth, I am speculating that the ...

These photos seem to represent the same man.  He appears wearing a pith helmet in the Middle East, which means he would ha...

These photos are details from photos that I have enlarged to try and capture the faces. 

I have been very fortunate in having been given access to a photograph album, courtesy of Robin Benjamin, which had been sent home in 1917...

James Simonsen of Ascot Vale enlisted with the AIF in May 1915, and spent some time on Gallipoli and in Egypt before moving on to France. ...