Saturday, July 16, 2022

The Disaster at The Nek

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Tpr Robert Kerr, courtesy of Kim Phillips, Spirits of  Gallipoli website An early recruit to the AIF in 1914, Robert Kerr, a commercial trav...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Vera Deakin and the Red Cross

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  When war broke out in 1914, Vera Deakin, daughter of Alfred Deakin ,  former Prime Minister of Australia, urgently wanted to do something ...
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Prisoners of the First World War - ICRC Archives

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  Wahn, Westphalia, Germany. French prisoners-of-war at work (Karl Rud. Bremer & Co., Cologne, Germany, n°205) On 21 August 1914, the Ce...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

Thirsty Work Crossing the Sinai - Trooper J E Quinlan of Shuter Street

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  Members of 3 Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron, Palestine, 1917.  AWM P039631.087 James Quinlan was a 19 year old labourer of 29 Shuter St,...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Trooper Cyril Kaighin - one of the 'Glorious Dead'

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 This is a tale of blighted expectations, told by Rod Martin.   Cyril and his older sister, Mabel Mona (b. 1891), about 1900 (Rodd Johnson/G...
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Monday, October 25, 2021

2nd Lieutenant Vivian Garner and the Lost Plaque

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  2nd Lieutenant Vivian Gilber Garner was featured with the story of his service in the AIF on The Empire Called and I Answered website.  T...

Sapper Hermann Taylor, a casualty of typhoid, 1916

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  Military Infectious Diseases Hospital, Choubra, Egypt, November 1915. Hermann Taylor was performing clerical duties at the AIF Headquarter...