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Sgt James Grant Anderson's war
Driver Rupert Clive Jones, left, and Lance Corporal James Grant Anderson at the Alexandria Military Cemetery, c 1915.James Grant Anderson, on the right, a farmer of Essendon and Keilor, married Elsie...
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Stories from the Supreme Court of Victoria Memorial Board
In the entrance to the Supreme Court in William Street Melbourne, there is a memorial board commemorating 158 lawyers and solicitors who served in the Great War. In a commemorative project, the...
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Departure of the first Victorian convoy, 1914
Infantry boarding the Hororata at Prince's Pier, October 1914.Tomorrow, 19 October 2014, is the centenary of the day that the first troops from Essendon and Flemington of the 6th and 7th Battalions...
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Researching your Australian WW1 relatives
Photographic Records and Classification Subsection of the Australian War Records Section, June 1919, LondonTo be presented by Lenore Frost. This talk will give you an expert overview of resources held...
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Leo Pathe with the 3 Light Horse Brigade
Leo Pathe, a young coppersmith from Glass Street, Essendon enlisted on 9 September 1914 and was assigned to the 3rd Light Horse Brigade, then in camp at Broadmeadows. Greg Milne tells Leo's story.
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The YMCA at the front line
It's wonderful what you can find at the local fete. Last week I picked up a little cloth-covered book called A Rough Y.M. Bloke by Frank Grose, without any idea of what it was likely to be about. I...
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Melbourne Cup Day
Nursing sisters at 3 Australian General Hospital, Abbassia, lining up for a donkey race at a sports meeting,. Good luck with your pick for today's Cup. Let's hope it isn't a donkey!
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Applications to Enlist MT1486/1
An example of an application to re-enlist in the AIF, in this case ruled unfit.NAA series MT1486/1 includes Applications to Enlist. Some of these forms are for men rejected on health grounds, some...
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Memories Dear - Stanley Vaughan
Private Stanley Paul Vaughan's memorial stone, Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli. Courtesy of Kim Phillips, The Spiritis of Gallipoli website. Stanley Vaughan, 6 Inf Bn, was lost at German Officers...
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100 Stories from Monash University
One Hundred StoriesThe One Hundred Stories remember not just the men and women who lost their lives but also those who returned to Australia, the gassed, the crippled, the insane, all those irreparably...
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National Anzac Centre and Pat Dooley
Norval 'Pat' Dooley from the National Anzac Centre story on Sister Olive Haynes.While having yet another look around for an image of Pat Dooley who married the Anzac Girl Olive Haynes, an interesting...
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Sydney Buckley, Harrier and Army Chaplain
Reverend Captain S L Buckley, chaplain.A recent enquiry about the founder of the Ivanhoe Harriers had me hunting around for an image of the Rev. Sydney Buckley, who had also been a member of the St...
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2nd Lt Henry Campbell Brady NOT awarded the Albert Medal
Originally the Albert Medal was created to recognise life saving at sea, but a number of mine disasters led to a medal for life saving on land, as shown above. It was not a military medal, but...
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Sister Emily Clare of Kensington died on Active Service
Sister Emily Clare, AANS, AIFTrained nurse Emily Clare joined the Australian Army Nursing Service in November 1917, and was appointed a Staff Nurse. Her training had consisted of 3 years at the...
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Venereal Disease and the Great War - UPATED
Paris, France September 1918. Soldiers from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa with Ettie Rout of the New Zealand Volunteer Service relaxing on leave during a card game. AWM H03654.Ettie Rout was...
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How Private Young saved himself
3 Battalion men boarding the train for Alexandria, 4 April 1915 (AWM P02282.007)A sixteen year-old boy was amongst this group of men who were preparing to leave Egypt and storm the Gallipoli shore....
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Heartiest of Christmas Greetings from France, 1918
Courtesy of Janine Beamish. Gordon Anderson sent his heartiest greetings to friends and family at Christmas, 1918. Gordon still had another eleven months in uniform before being discharged in...
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Is this photo of the 3rd reinforcments, 14th Infantry Battalion?
Thought to be the 3rd Reinforcments of the 14th Battalion, courtesy of Jenny Fawcett. The above photo was recently the subject of a blog post by Jenny Fawcett, who hopes to identify the unit involved...
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HEROIC AIRMAN. Lost in Sea Fog. A Loss to the Empire.
Lieutenant AEP Mott's memorial in Montrose, Scotland. Courtesy of Ian Edwards.HEROIC AIRMAN. Lost in Sea Fog. A Loss to the Empire. By the death of Lieutenant Arthur E. Mott, of the Australian Flying...
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British Red Cross Volunteers A-D online
If you have family members who volunteered with the British Red Cross in WW1, the British Red Cross have started to load up records for them, with A-D being currently available.
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