Thursday, April 30, 2020

The Call to Arms, 1916 digitised in full

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I posted about this series of documents, B6525 in the National Archives of Australia back in 2014 .  At the time, only some of the forms ...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Troopship Boonah and the Spanish flu

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HMAT Boonah, courtesy of  Wikipedia article on the Boonah Crisis . In 1919 a scandal erupted over the treatment of troops on the HMAT Bo...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

The Aftermath of Lone Pine - Private Leslie Oakley

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Hospital Ship  Neuralia  1915    (IWM ART 4405) After the Battle at Lone Pine, Private Leslie Oakley of Kensington was put on board Hosp...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

A Teacher's Bequest

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In a letter to his mother in 1917,  a young soldier and former State School teacher,  James Stephen Hogan   explained carefully that...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Flying Officer William Edward Bruce Neilson

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After last month's story about James Charles Outhred , who was a fellow member of No 3 Squadron,  AFC, Rod Martin tells the story of ...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

2 Air Mechanic James Charles Outhred, AFC

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What do the Red Baron, an empty grave in Moe and Air Mechanic Outhred have in common with 3 Australian Flying Squadron?  Rod Martin tells...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

Neil Neilson answers the Call to Arms

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State Library South Australia.    https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/2434   On 15 December 1915 the Prime Minister of...