The Empire Called and I Answered

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

There was a group of soldiers in the 7th Infantry Battalion which Colonel H E (Pompey) Elliott used to refer to as his "Essendon Boys...

I saw this play in Moonee Ponds last year and it is an outstanding piece of work.  See it if you can.  Darren Mort is Pompey to the life. ...

Private Herbert Millest Keam landed at Gallipoli with the 7th Battalion on 25 April 1915, but by the following day he was missing.  He wa...

Troops on board HMAT Hororata at Port Melbourne, 17 April 1915, AWM PB0448. Laurie James, a bricklayer from Ascot Vale, was 19 years ol...

Griffiths family grave in Krugersdorp, South Africa, courtesy of Jena Griffiths. To underscore the imperial nature of the AIF, here is ...

Pte A J McArthur, courtesy of Kim Phillips of The Spirits of Gallipoli website. Source:  The Australasian , 3 July 1915, page iii. ...

Reconstruction of a ‘ Gallipoli boat’, Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance   (Rod Martin) The above reconstruction of a boat used to ferry t...

  24 Tennyson St, Kensington.  Reproduced with the permission of view.com.au. From this single-fronted terrace house at 24 Tennyson St...

The Argus 25 Apr 1916 (Courtesy of Kim Phillips, Spirits of Gallipoli website.) John Knox Adams of McPherson St, Essendon, was an...

Sergeant Alfred Thomas Young, courtesy of Liz Clarke. Alfred Thomas Young, born in Moonee Ponds, was the son of a well-known local busin...

In this recently published book, The Fair Dinkums , Glenn McFarlane examines a cohort of men from the 8th Reinforcements of the 7th Batta...

Private Langham taken at Broadmeadows in 1915, from the Australian War Memorial Collection. Having another look at the South Australian...

Portrait of Haddon Chapman in his Essendon Rifles uniform before the war. Earl Haddon Simpson Chapman, known as Haddon by his family, wa...

We met Private Eric Herman a little while ago, but now his grandson has provided the story of Eric's service with the AIF.  Buried be...

Pte Eric Herman and other convalescents, courtesy of Matt Freckelton. Eric Herman , front left, at the Australian & New Zealand Con...

Infantry boarding the Hororata  at Prince's Pier, October 1914. Tomorrow, 19 October 2014, is the centenary of the day that the fi...

  Unibic Anzac Biscuits Driver Robert Allan Bunning (right) enjoys 7th Inf Bn Christmas Dinner 25 Dec 1914 at Mena Camp. ...

Sedate and sober troops marching from Mena towards Cairo. (AWM) PS0412 Private Wilfred John Young was amongst the first to enlist when A...

Lenoard G Sproston of Ascot Vale enlisted on 17 August 1914, one of the very first.  Embarking just a few weeks later with 7 Infantry Ba...