The Empire Called and I Answered
Friday, May 20, 2016
A Sapper at work
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Sappers undertook a variety of military engineering duties such as bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, demolitions, field de...
Saturday, April 30, 2016
British Red Cross Volunteers
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Over 90,000 people volunteered for the British Red Cross in Britain and overseas during the war. Search for your family’s personnel reco...
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Thursday, April 7, 2016
A Sportsmen's Thousand recruit
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Artist Will Dyson: 22 nd Battalion men awaiting relief, near Ville sur Ancre, 1918. (AWM ART 19603) Benjamin Phillip James, a 40 ...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
The Irish Rising: 'A terrible beauty is born'
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The State Library of Victoria has a free exhibition about the uprising which occurred in Dublin during Easter 1916. See their website fo...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
The Woman Haters' Club go to war
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This photo shows members of the Women Haters' Club at their Dromana Camp. The soldier in the centre is wearing sergeants' stripe...
Saturday, March 5, 2016
The Wilsons of Moonee Ponds
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Emily, Daisy and John Wilson, Leighton Studios, circa 1917. Courtesy of Nereda Shute. Private John Wilson and his wife Emily took their...
Monday, February 1, 2016
Welcome Home digger!
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Roland Ransome in the car on the right, 1918. Courtesy of Bronwyn Reid. Returning convoys were met at the docks and volunteers came with...
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