The Empire Called and I Answered

Pozieres, pulverised by shelling, where George Young suffered shell shock.  AWM A05776 George Henry Young suffered a bit of a battering in t...

           Private Thomas Keddie, State school teacher at San Remo. Thomas Keddie, a State school teacher, enlisted in the AIF at the first ...

  Somme mud, 1916 (AWM P905380.002) Private William Yeats arrived in France in January 1917 in time to enjoy the worst winter in 40 years.  ...

Captain John Eldred Mott MC and Bar (later Lieutenant Colonel), the first Australian officer to escape from captivity in Germany, taken the ...

The Australian War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux   The Australian War Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux in the Somme departement in France conta...

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

  Members of 3 Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron, Palestine, 1917.  AWM P039631.087 James Quinlan was a 19 year old labourer of 29 Shuter St,...

Four Australian air mechanics enjoying lunch at Halefield, June 1918    (AWM P10218.009) Harry Nelson, fruiterer and cyclist of McConnell St...

Machine gunners in training at Seymour, 1916.  AWM P08299.002. Albert James (Jim) Raff, a cabinetmaker or 79 Market St, Kensington, enli...

Hospital Ship  Neuralia  1915    (IWM ART 4405) After the Battle at Lone Pine, Private Leslie Oakley of Kensington was put on board Hosp...

After last month's story about James Charles Outhred , who was a fellow member of No 3 Squadron,  AFC, Rod Martin tells the story of ...

State Library South Australia.    https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/2434   On 15 December 1915 the Prime Minister of...

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...

A game of cricket was played on Shell Green in an attempt to distract the Turks from the imminent departure of allied troops, December 19...

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...

British light rail engine, as used on the Western Front      (AWM H01948) In late 1916, at the request of the British government, Aust...

An image of Ernest Fairlie in his pre-war Militia uniform, The Australasian , 17 July 1915. Of those local soldiers who survived th...

114 Battery column, drawn by mules, France, 13 October 1918. AWM E03563 Munitions worker Joe Eddy joined the AIF near the 2nd anniver...

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