Private Charles Wigg who fell at Ypres

Charles Wigg, from the Australian War Memorial Collection

Rod Martin traces the path of Charles Ernest Wigg, a labourer, of Essendon, from his enlistment in September 1917 to his final days on the battlefield of Ypres in October 1917.

Died on Armistice Day 1918 - Driver A D Galbraith

Conditions on the front during the Third Battle of Ypres, November 1917 (Wilkins, G.H. (ed.): Australian War Photographs, A.I.F Publications, London, 1919)

Driver Albert David Galbraith of Essendon survived two and a half years of war in France, but died of illness on the day the guns stopped firing.  Read Rod Martin's account of Galbraith's service in the AIF on The Empire Called and I Answered  website.