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John Goldsworthy, Mayor of Essendon, 1914
The Colours and Emblems of the 58 Infantry (Essendon Rifles) Regiment, designed by Councillor John Goldsworthy, the Mayor of Essendon, featured on a Patriotic Concert Program from 1914.Marilyn Kenny...
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St George's Anglican Church, Travancore WW1 commemoration
I saw this on the Flemington-Kensington News Facebook: "In commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, St George's Anglican Church, Travancore will read the Roll of Honour of the parish...
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WAR NEWS IN THE CITY.
Crowds outside The Argus newspaper office, waiting for a Special Supplement Melbourne, 5 August 1914. Australian War Memorial Collection H11612. WAR NEWS IN THE CITY. PATRIOTIC DEMONSTRATION. RUSH...
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Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force Commemoration
Flinders Street Station, advertising the 7th War Loan Bond. Australian War Memorial Collection H02355.The Victorian Government invites youto the following free event:Flinders Street Station departure...
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"Permanently unfit for general Service", and yet...
Gunner Gaudie is lying in the bed at the far end, right side, in an Australian Auxiliary Hospital in 1919. Despite being an unpromising soldier at his physical examination in 1916, Gunner Charles Hugh...
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Anzac girl
Sister Olive Haynes, featured in last night's ABC drama Anzac Girls, is commemorated on the Roll of Honour at Christ Church, Essendon. Although from South Australia before the war, Olive married...
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British Army Officer Records
Group photo of army officers (Catalogue reference: AIR 1/725/100/2). The National Archives.Following three years' of work by volunteers, the data of nearly 140,000 surviving paper records of officers...
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Williams Brother Album again.
In the above photo, the stretcher-bearer in the front row, far right, has been identified by John McKenzie as his grandfather, 6381 Pte Joseph Rhodes, MM, of Fairfield, who joined the 6 Field...
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New Zealand Service Records online
Archives New Zealand and the National Library have made available individual WW1 records of their servicemen and women. A centenary website gives you all the links to the relevant records. A handful...
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Bita Paka Commemoration 11 September
Staff of the Royal Australian Naval Brigade, Australian Navy and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF), after the operations against the Germans, September 1914. AWM A04003.The Battle of Bita Paka,...
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Francis Williams, underage soldier
2005 Pte Francis Williams, 46 Inf Bn.What is the Army's duty when a clearly underage boy presents for enlistment? Rod Martin examines the lack of process when Francis Williams, aged 16, enlisted in 1916.
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Mentioned in Top 50 Blogs for 2014
From Inside History Magazine"The list was judged on a number of criteria: such as originality, quality of content, historical accuracy, use of photographs, useability, interaction with audience and...
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Trove is a Winner!
I'm loving a new entry into the digitised newspapers on Trove - a Melbourne-based sports newspaper called Winner. I have never heard of it before, but it turns out to be a treasure trove indeed of...
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Norval Dooley and St Thomas' Harriers
St Thomas' Harriers pre 1914Following up the many sportsmen from the Essendon area in Winners, as mentioned in the previous post, I had a look to see if Norval (Pat) Dooley who features in the ABC...
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Gordon Anderson 1917 albums, 10th ASC
I have just loaded up two albums of photos taken by Gordon Roy Anderson of Buckley Park, Essendon. At that time Buckley Park referred to a farm on the west side of Hoffmans Rd, Essendon, in an area...
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Victorian Veterans Virtual Museum
Courtesy of the State Library of Victoria Collection, H99.166/74I went back to an earlier post in this blog to locate the link for the Victorian Veterans Virtual Museum, and of course it has been...
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58th Infantry Battalion AIF Memorial Book
Detail from image in the Moonee Valley Leader 24 Sep 2014. The Memorial Book is on permanent loan to the Essendon Historical Society.There has been some confusion between the 58th Infantry Battalion...
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RSL Virtual War Memorial
Here's an interesting new website from the South Australian Branch of the RSL. http://www.rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/Amongst other features is what appears to be nominal rolls for the different...
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Lance Sergeant Fish, 2nd Field Ambulance
Souvenir in the Australian War Memorial Collection REL31249This souvenir was carried by one of three people, brothers Lance Sergeant George Melrose and Private Charles Vivian Fish or their...
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