Monday, November 30, 2020

Thunderboxes, troops, for the use of

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If you ever wondered what sanitary arrangements were made for troops in the trenches at Gallipoli, wonder no more. Rod Martin has investi...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Mystery Man: Doctor J Hughston

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  The Essendon Gazette of 10 June 1915,  in its For King and Country column,  carried the photo of a young man in civilian dress with a sub...
Monday, September 14, 2020

2nd Aircraft Mechanic Harry Nelson and the widow's fight

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Four Australian air mechanics enjoying lunch at Halefield, June 1918    (AWM P10218.009) Harry Nelson, fruiterer and cyclist of McConnell St...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

The Empire Called 10th Anniversary of Blogging

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7th Infantry Battalion with Lieutenant Colonel Pompey Elliott in the centre of the front row, 1914, just prior to embarkation. The date of t...
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Friday, June 5, 2020

Jim Raff, machine gunner of Kensington

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Machine gunners in training at Seymour, 1916.  AWM P08299.002. Albert James (Jim) Raff, a cabinetmaker or 79 Market St, Kensington, enli...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

HMAT Boonah in Quarantine on Torrens Island, 1919

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Quarantined on Torrens Island, near Adelaide, Sergeant Norman Gillies in the centre. Following on from Marilyn Kenny's story last...
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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 ...