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Lieutenant Earl Haddon Simpson Chapman
Portrait of Haddon Chapman in his Essendon Rifles uniform before the war.Earl Haddon Simpson Chapman, known as Haddon by his family, was a young man showing a lot of promise. Educated at the local...
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Victorian unit war histories
The original link I gave some while ago to the Victorian Veteran's Virtual Museum which included a link to digitised unit war histories has become such a convoluted affair with various changes at the...
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Wally Essay, posted Missing at The Nek
8 Light Horsemen moving out of a rest area, 1915.The anniversary of the battle at The Nek having just passed, Rod Martin relates the story of Trooper Camillus "Wally" Essay of Kensington. The group of...
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38th Battalion on the spot
A machine-gun post on the Somme Canal - deceptively quiet in 1918. Private William James Bale enlisted on Anzac Day 1917. Once in England for training he became ill and spent some time in hospital...
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'WW1 - Love and Sorrow' Exhibition at Museum Victoria
The honour board at Museum Victoria, originally from the Newmarket Saleyards. Last week I visited Museum Victoria to see the two WW1 Exhibitions showing there - 'WW1 -Love and Sorrow', which is the...
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Percy Fallshaw of the 39th Battalion
Crozier, Frank: The sinking of the Ballarat, 25 April 1917 (AWM ART 13329)Joiner Percy Fallshaw was 24 and married when he joined up in January 1917. He and his comrades in the 39th Infantry...
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The Rossi brothers do their bit
Gunner Les Rossi, back row, far left, trained in Swanage, England with reinforcements of 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column. They embarked for France on 10 Feb 1917, where Les was subsequently...
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Unidentified soldier at Moonee Ponds
From the State Library of Victoria collection, H99.166/52.This fellow was photographed at Leighton Studios, 14 Margaret St, Moonee Ponds. He may well not have been a local, but on the other hand, it...
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A teacher joins the machine gunners
Frederick Almonde Coe was teaching at St Thomas' Grammar School, Essendon, when he enlisted in February 1916. The image above shows the Vickers medium machine gun on which Coe trained, and later...
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Missing in 1916, found in 1924
4th Division Memorial at Ballenglise, France.There was special suffering for those families whose lost sons, brothers and husbands had no known grave. The family of Lionel Rupert Fox Walker, a...
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Trooper Harry Griffiths acknowledged as war dead
Harry David Griffiths died in 1919 after his return to Australia and was buried at the Heidelberg Cemetery. His family have worked to have his service in the AIF acknowledged as contributing to his...
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Gunner Tatterson says farewell
HMAT Orsova leaving Port Melbourne, 16 December 1916.If Nellie Tatterson took her three children down to Port Melbourne to farewell Gunner John Forrest Tatterson eight days before Christmas 1916, it...
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Three mates out rabbiting, 1920s
Three mates out rabbiting, 1920s. Courtesy of Louise Hill-Coleman.Louise Hill-Coleman had this photo in her family collection, but knew little about it other than recognising her grandfather Thomas...
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Year 9 History Study Resources from the RHSV
Detail of a portrait from the RHSV collection GS-WG-0258A series of resources held by the RHSV linked to the new Australian History Curriculum, and designed to aid in the interpretation and analysis of...
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Remembering Bill Scurry
Bill Scurry as a Captain, in France, 1917, seated on the left, with officers of the 15th Light Trench Mortar Battery. Standing behind on the left is Lieutenant Leonard Frederick Morris, a...
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Not forgotten at Christmas time, Egypt 1915
Christmas billies, provided by the Australian Comforts Fund, being distributed to 1st Light Horse Regiment at the Brigade camp at the aerodrome, Heliopolis, Egypt, Christmas 1915. Australian War...
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3rd Pioneer Bandsman identified
Going through her grandfather Ern Crouch's photos, Judy Williams located the above photo, about which she said, "Grandpa had written on the back of this photo "One of the bandboys of the 3rd...
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A litte trench art
Identity disc of George MacFarlane, courtesy of Vicki Moore.This interesting piece of trench art, a hand-made identity disc belonging to George MacFarlane of Essendon, has lately been added to his...
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From the Suburbs to the Trenches
I was recently pleased to discover this book which describes the war service of two young fellows, one of them, Cecil Seccombe of Ascot Vale who served with the 3rd Pioneer Battalion, and the other...
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Gunner Lundmark of Kensington
A crew of the 3st Battery, Australian Field Artillery at Seymour in 1914.Gunner John Patrick Lundmark of Kensington had been part of the compulsory Universal Training Scheme since its inception in...
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