The Empire Called and I Answered
Friday, July 15, 2011
Did this officer win a Military Cross for eating?
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Company Sergeant Major (later Lieutenant) Rothwell Gordon's friends in Essendon thought his prodigious eating capacity may have scored h...
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Private Bert Harvey and the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
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When Bert Harvey of Ascot Vale went missing during the battle of Pozieres, no trace was found of his body. His name, along with 11,000 ...
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Sunday, July 3, 2011
Private John Aldred - Conduct Prejudicial
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Serapeum, Egypt, circa 7 Apr 1916. Punt crossing the Suez. Australian War Memorial Collection. An innocuous incident in which ...
Friday, July 1, 2011
Pte George Joseph O'Neill, awarded Croix de Guerre
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George O'Neill enlisted in the 4th Field Ambulance Corps, and served from 1915 until the end of the war in Lemnos, dealing with the Gall...
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Survived the War - Harry O'Neill
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Private Henry Francis O'Neill landed at Gallipoli with the 7th Infantry Battalion on 25 April 1915. On the last day of the war, Lieut...
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Sapper Frederick Dart
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Sapper Frederick Ryall Dart of Moonee Ponds developed an early interest in wireless and signals. After completing four years of Senior Cade...
Saturday, June 4, 2011
The battleground of Third Ypres, 1917
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Gunner Gordon Doig , working with the Australian Field Artillery on the Menin Road fell victim to German shelling of his gunpit. Rod Mart...
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