Monday, April 24, 2023

Pattie Deakin and the Anzac Buffet

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Elizabeth Martha Anne Browne (but known as Pattie) was born at Camp Hill, Tullamarine Victoria on 1 January 1863. She was the third of the e...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

A Dashing Australian Officer - John Mott

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Captain John Eldred Mott MC and Bar (later Lieutenant Colonel), the first Australian officer to escape from captivity in Germany, taken the ...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Claiming a Brother

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Having delivered ammunition supplies to the guns, unidentified members of the Australian Divisional Ammunition Column gallop past a dangerou...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Private Arthur Jabons Lane, no known grave

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The Australian War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux   The Australian War Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux in the Somme departement in France conta...
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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...