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 ...

Tpr Robert Kerr, courtesy of Kim Phillips, Spirits of  Gallipoli website An early recruit to the AIF in 1914, Robert Kerr, a commercial trav...

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...

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...

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...

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

Samuel Gaudie and the 5th Infantry Battalion landed at Gallipoli on day one. Gaudie remained there until he returned to Lemnos in Octob...

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

Group portrait of 5th Battery, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, in old gun pit, Gallipoli. Caption on rear: "This is a snap shot of some...

Cape Helles Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula. Hello folks, just a reminder that Kim Phillips will be at the Sam Merrifield Library  tonight...

All of us would be familiar with the heroic efforts of our brave Anzacs as they fought in the First World War at Gallipoli . Yet...

Anyone who has had a good browse through The Empire Called and I Answered website will know that Kim Phillips has been very generous in ...

Emden sailors leaving the 'Orvieto' at Port Said to go aboard the 'Hampshire', 2 Dec 1914. National Archives of Australia....