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Scotch College Commemorative website
Above two images are from the Scotch College commemorative website. Scotch College moved it's WW1 Roll of Honour while I wasn't looking, but I have lately relocated it, now with articles about those...
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Football champion goes to war
Player poster of Herbert Milne in the 1910 Victorian Football Follower series, Boyles Football PhotosAt the age of thirty-one, Herbert Milne had had an interesting life. He had played Australian Rules...
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A Staff Nurse in France
Margaret Ethel Miles, of Napier St, Essendon, commenced her three year training, aged 22, at the Warrnambool Hospital in 1912. She obtained her certificate of nursing in 1915, after the commencement of...
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Neil Neilson answers the Call to Arms
State Library South Australia. https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/2434 On 15 December 1915 the Prime Minister of Australia, William Hughes, put out a Call to Arms to the young men...
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2 Air Mechanic James Charles Outhred, AFC
What do the Red Baron, an empty grave in Moe and Air Mechanic Outhred have in common with 3 Australian Flying Squadron? Rod Martin tells you in his story of 2 Air Mechanic James Charles Outhred. You...
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Flying Officer William Edward Bruce Neilson
After last month's story about James Charles Outhred, who was a fellow member of No 3 Squadron, AFC, Rod Martin tells the story of William Edward Bruce Neilson. While both Outhred and Neilson enlisted...
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A Teacher's Bequest
In a letter to his mother in 1917, a young soldier and former State School teacher, James Stephen Hogan explained carefully that in the event of his death, his younger sister Doreen could claim his...
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The Aftermath of Lone Pine - Private Leslie Oakley
Hospital Ship Neuralia 1915 (IWM ART 4405)After the Battle at Lone Pine, Private Leslie Oakley of Kensington was put on board Hospital Ship Neuralia and taken to Malta. Rod Martin examines...
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Troopship Boonah and the Spanish flu
HMAT Boonah, courtesy of Wikipedia article on the Boonah Crisis.In 1919 a scandal erupted over the treatment of troops on the HMAT Boonah who had contracted the Spanish flu. Sick soldiers were...
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The Call to Arms, 1916 digitised in full
I posted about this series of documents, B6525 in the National Archives of Australia back in 2014. At the time, only some of the forms had been digitised. Having another look at them today, I find...
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HMAT Boonah in Quarantine on Torrens Island, 1919
Quarantined on Torrens Island, near Adelaide, Sergeant Norman Gillies in the centre.Following on from Marilyn Kenny's story last month about the Troopship-Boonah-and-the-1919-influenza-epidemic we now...
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Jim Raff, machine gunner of Kensington
Machine gunners in training at Seymour, 1916. AWM P08299.002.Albert James (Jim) Raff, a cabinetmaker or 79 Market St, Kensington, enlisted in the Australian Army on 18 July 1916. Jim trained to be a...
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The Empire Called 10th Anniversary of Blogging
7th Infantry Battalion with Lieutenant Colonel Pompey Elliott in the centre of the front row, 1914, just prior to embarkation.The date of the 10th Anniversary of the commencement of The Empire Called...
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2nd Aircraft Mechanic Harry Nelson and the widow's fight
Four Australian air mechanics enjoying lunch at Halefield, June 1918 (AWM P10218.009)Harry Nelson, fruiterer and cyclist of McConnell St, Kensington, enlisted in October 1917, and embarked in May...
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Mystery Man: Doctor J Hughston
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 subheading. There was no article to explain the reference or nor...
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Thunderboxes, troops, for the use of
If you ever wondered what sanitary arrangements were made for troops in the trenches at Gallipoli, wonder no more. Rod Martin has investigated this difficult question, and found that Kensington man,...
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Sapper Douglas Morpeth of Mar Lodge
A general search around the internet for photos of Douglas Morpeth turned up this interesting photo on the Great War Forum. The photo shows a group of men who embarked as reinforcements for a Field...
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Gunner Nott, organist
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 further his studies in music at the Royal College of Music....
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The sterling qualities of Staff Nurse Margaret Leonard
Nurse Leonard on her graduation. Table Talk 21 Oct 1909 p 21Graduating at the end of 1909 from the Homoeopathic Hospital, St Kilda Road, Margaret nursed for six years before enlisting in the AANS in...
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Private Frank Archer, husband and father, died in April 1917
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 in 1914 suggested that there were plenty of eager and single...
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