Sunday, May 2, 2021

Letters to Lily Vale

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  When War was declared in August 1914, Ern Latchford was working as an Instructional Officer at the 58B training depot in Ascot Vale.  Ins...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Private Frank Archer, husband and father, died in April 1917

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The twenty-six year-old blacksmith had a wife and two children to support and care for, and the initial rush to enlist after war broke out i...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

The sterling qualities of Staff Nurse Margaret Leonard

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  Nurse Leonard on her graduation. Table Talk 21 Oct 1909 p 21 Graduating at the end of 1909 from the Homoeopathic Hospital, St Kilda Road,...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

Gunner Nott, organist

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Fred Nott, of Ascot Vale, was a well-known musician in Essendon and Melbourne before the war, and had left for England in January 1914 to ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Sapper Douglas Morpeth of Mar Lodge

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A general search around the internet for photos of Douglas Morpeth turned up this interesting photo on the Great War Forum. The photo sho...
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...