Saturday, August 27, 2016

Private Langham and the South Australian Red Cross

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Private Langham taken at Broadmeadows in 1915, from the Australian War Memorial Collection. Having another look at the South Australian...
Friday, August 26, 2016

South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau, 1916-1919

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 While browsing through the B2455 file of Harry Nightingale Kersey of Moonee Ponds, I noticed a note written at Broadmeadows to t...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Mont Park Military Hospital photo collection

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Patients playing cards, 16th Australian General Hospital, Mont Park ca 1918 (Alice E. Broadhurst Collection, Yarra Plenty Regional Librar...
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

'A sharp attack was made by the enemy....'

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A lighthorseman with his mount. Following on from his story about Charles Murray Bloomfield who died at Pozieres, Rod Martin brings us...
Monday, August 15, 2016

Probably A Company, 37th Battalion, 1915

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Photo courtesy of Yvonne Macvean. This photo is thought to include Private Albert Edmond Hickson who had grown up and gone to school in...

Darge tent at Seymour camp, c 1915

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This is interesting - I guess we are all familiar with the Darge photos of soldiers, but I came upon this by accident searching for someth...
Friday, August 5, 2016

Beloved by all who knew him

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Ceramic leaving Port Melbourne, 23 November 1915  (AWM PB0284A) Charles Murray Bloomfield, the son of a former Councillor of Essendon, ...