Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Private Yeats and the attack at Polygon Wood

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  Somme mud, 1916 (AWM P905380.002) Private William Yeats arrived in France in January 1917 in time to enjoy the worst winter in 40 years.  ...
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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