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Welcome Home digger!
Roland Ransome in the car on the right, 1918. Courtesy of Bronwyn Reid.Returning convoys were met at the docks and volunteers came with their polished and decorated vehicles to convey the men through...
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The Wilsons of Moonee Ponds
Emily, Daisy and John Wilson, Leighton Studios, circa 1917. Courtesy of Nereda Shute. Private John Wilson and his wife Emily took their little daughter Daisy to the Leighton Photographic Studio in...
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The Woman Haters' Club go to war
This photo shows members of the Women Haters' Club at their Dromana Camp. The soldier in the centre is wearing sergeants' stripes on his sleeve. The history of the club says that no camping was done...
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The Irish Rising: 'A terrible beauty is born'
The State Library of Victoria has a free exhibition about the uprising which occurred in Dublin during Easter 1916. See their website for associated events.You can explore Stories from 1916 which is...
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A Sportsmen's Thousand recruit
Artist Will Dyson: 22nd Battalion men awaiting relief, near Ville sur Ancre, 1918. (AWM ART 19603)Benjamin Phillip James, a 40 year old labourer, was inspired to enlist in the Sportsman's Thousand in...
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British Red Cross Volunteers
Over 90,000 people volunteered for the British Red Cross in Britain and overseas during the war. Search for your family’s personnel records, and discover what Red Cross volunteers were doing in your...
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A Sapper at work
Sappers undertook a variety of military engineering duties such as bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, demolitions, field defences and general construction, including roads. The sappers...
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Soldier vows to change his name
John Mitchell Stuart, a well-known member of the Essendon Harriers, is pictured above in the centre row, second from the right, with the Victorian Amateur Athletics Association team selected to compete...
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Wedding of a munitions worker, 1918
Photo courtesy of Trevor Wilson.The wedding was that of George Stanley Smail (standing, right) and Olive Ella Davey (seated right) which took place in London on 15 December 1918. The soldier on the...
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Beloved by all who knew him
Ceramic leaving Port Melbourne, 23 November 1915 (AWM PB0284A)Charles Murray Bloomfield, the son of a former Councillor of Essendon, was only 19, as the song goes, when he embarked with the 12th...
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Darge tent at Seymour camp, c 1915
This is interesting - I guess we are all familiar with the Darge photos of soldiers, but I came upon this by accident searching for something else at the Seymour Camp. The photo also shows other...
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Probably A Company, 37th Battalion, 1915
Photo courtesy of Yvonne Macvean.This photo is thought to include Private Albert Edmond Hickson who had grown up and gone to school in Essendon. Albert joined the AIF in July 1915 and embarked on the...
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'A sharp attack was made by the enemy....'
A lighthorseman with his mount.Following on from his story about Charles Murray Bloomfield who died at Pozieres, Rod Martin brings us the preceding awful news for the Bloomfield family - the death of...
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Mont Park Military Hospital photo collection
Patients playing cards, 16th Australian General Hospital, Mont Park ca 1918 (Alice E. Broadhurst Collection, Yarra Plenty Regional Library)The Yarra Plenty Regional Library has announced the...
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South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau, 1916-1919
While browsing through the B2455 file of Harry Nightingale Kersey of Moonee Ponds, I noticed a note written at Broadmeadows to the effect that Kersey had married the day before, and another...
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Private Langham and the South Australian Red Cross
Private Langham taken at Broadmeadows in 1915, from the Australian War Memorial Collection.Having another look at the South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau files, I decided to do a search based...
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The Fair Dinkums, by Glenn McFarlane
In this recently published book, The Fair Dinkums, Glenn McFarlane examines a cohort of men from the 8th Reinforcements of the 7th Battalion, who embarked on the Anchises in August 1915. They were...
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Can a recruit change his eye colour?
22 Battalion, newly arrived from Egypt, going into line at the southern part of Lone Pine, 6 September 1915 AWM A00847When Davey joined the 22 Inf Bn in 1915 his eyes were blue, but when he...
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Scotch College - The School at War
The State Library of Victoria now has a digitised copy of the Scotch College memorial booklet The School at War. A feature of the booklet are the photos of the former Scotch pupils who died in the...
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Bert McDonald and a sprig of Wattle
A delightful cache of photos has come my way, courtesy of the kindness of the McDonald Family. Pictured above is Bert McDonald, who enlisted in December 1917, but was discharged for medical reasons...
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