The Empire Called and I Answered

With his usual precision, Rod Martin follows the military career of the mature recruit, Thomas Bell Hogg , a railway employee of Ascot V...

  At the Clocktower Centre, Moonee Ponds,  31 Aug at  12pm and 8pm Local hero General 'Pompey' Elliott led the Essendon Rif...

British light rail engine, as used on the Western Front      (AWM H01948) In late 1916, at the request of the British government, Aust...

Griffiths family grave in Krugersdorp, South Africa, courtesy of Jena Griffiths. To underscore the imperial nature of the AIF, here is ...

Female Relatives Badge, WW1 Female Relatives Badge, WW2 I have known for a while that the National Archives of Australia held the...

Pte A J McArthur, courtesy of Kim Phillips of The Spirits of Gallipoli website. Source:  The Australasian , 3 July 1915, page iii. ...

An image of Ernest Fairlie in his pre-war Militia uniform, The Australasian , 17 July 1915. Of those local soldiers who survived th...