The Empire Called and I Answered
Sunday, June 24, 2012
8 Light Horse Regiment training near Broadmeadows, 1915
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Private David Peter's family home was "Park View" in Fletcher St, Essendon, but the family farm was "Dunalister" a...
Friday, June 22, 2012
Trench warfare and trench feet
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A Vickers machine gun in action at Pozières, July 1916 (AWM P07670.003) Rod Martin examines the war service of Private William Henry Ye...
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Gibralter of the South: the Evolution of the Victorian Defences 1851-1945
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Buildings at Fort Queenscliff, erected in the 1880s development. The most recent edition of the Victorian Historical Journal, Volume 83...
Monday, June 11, 2012
Broken at Fleurbaix, 1916
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Ruins of the Fleurbaix Church, 1918. http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/E03724 The Fleurbaix Church was ruined in the shelling during the batt...
A RETURNED HERO
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Unpacking their Christmas billies at Lemnos, December 1915. AWM collection. "In October, 1915, the 6th Grade (then the ...
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
His twenty-fourth birthday, 1917
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Private Joe Yeates, an engine driver from Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds died from wounds on his 24th birthday in 1917, and was buried at th...
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Training in Aldershot, 1917
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Jan Colliver tells the poignant story of her great uncle Hughie Waldren of Ascot Vale. He enlisted with 6 Infantry Brigade in August 1915,...
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