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5th Battery 2nd Field Artillery Brigade at Gallipoli
Group portrait of 5th Battery, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, in old gun pit, Gallipoli. Caption on rear: "This is a snap shot of some of our battery gunners in an old gun pit. Notice some have no...
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What happens if you are an Australian Officer with a German name?
On the left is Leonard Seymour, and on the right is Henry Kaufman, winter 1916-17.Henry Kaufman was born in Box Hill in 1884, the son of a naturalised German farmer and an English mother. He served in...
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Westgarthtown & World War 1
Click on the link below to go to the film, not on the image above.In the comments section of the last post Liz Pidgeon, the Local and Family History Librarian at Yarra Plenty Regional Library, drew my...
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Snapshots of the Home Front: the Mountain family and the Essendon Red Cross
This photo shows the ballroom at Federal Government House, Melbourne, turned over to Red Cross sorting and packing of goods to send to men in the trenches, hospitals, training camps and prisoner of war...
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A Wartime Wedding, 1914
Bill Tytler & Lillian Andrewartha's wedding, 21/11/1914. Left to right: Hilary Watson, Stanley Tytler, Ina Tytler, Bill Tytler (seated), Richard Andrewartha, Lillian Andrewartha, Fred White,...
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The young Sergeant Young
Sergeant Alfred Thomas Young, courtesy of Liz Clarke.Alfred Thomas Young, born in Moonee Ponds, was the son of a well-known local businessman and Essendon Councillor, A E Young. Aged 21, he was with...
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Corporal Nash of the 29 Battalion
Coming back from a Christmas break, Rod Martin has leapt into 2017 with an outstanding account of the very hard fighting by the 29 Infantry Battalion by looking at one of the originals of that...
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WW1 Projects recognised in the Victorian Community History Awards, 2016
I completely forgot I was going to do a post on the WW1 projects which were recognised in the Victorian Community History Awards 2016 - so here they are:We Remember: Honouring the Service and Sacrifice...
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Essendon Ambulances for the War Effort
Marilyn Kenny has done a wonderful job of teasing out the story of the fundraising efforts by the local community to provide ambulances for the war effort. The result was a rather mixed. The...
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Tulloch Yuille and the Flemington Presbyterian Church
Flemington-Kensington Church News, courtesy of the Reverend Phillip Court.In 1916 the Presbyterian Church in Norwood St, Flemington called Alexander Tulloch Yuille to serve their community. He found...
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Battle-scarred veteran
On 31 August 1918 Pte Alfred Arthur Tower received a gunshot wound to the left side of his face and his left fingers, and was evacuated to England. He returned to Australian in January 1919, and is...
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Bill Yeates returns
Rod Martin wrote about William Henry Yeates in 2012 (see blog post Trench Warfare and Trench Feet) but recent contract from a family member has allowed Rod to update Bill's story with further...
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The Missing Jockey
Stand hurdles, Flemington. Photographer Frederick E Murphy, album "Horse racing and steeplechasing in Victoria and Tasmania." Courtesy of the State Library of Victoria Collection, H81.189/2/11.With no...
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Diversity within the AIF
Private John Christian Herweg of Moonee Ponds. Courtesy of John Gilbert.What happens if you are an Australian officer with a German name? What happens if you are German with sons in the Australian...
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Missing - a baker from Ascot Vale
14 Federation St, Ascot Vale. Reproduced with permission from www.realestate.com.au)Twenty-three year old baker Edward Smith left this home in Ascot Vale in 1916 to join the 5th Infantry Battalion and...
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Private Louis Salamito and the Last Post Ceremony
A bugler and piper in the commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial PAIU2013/044.04The names listed in the Last Post Calendar are those whose stories are told at the daily Last Post Ceremony...
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Photos of Instructional Staff - SSM Latchford
Ern Latchford as a member of the 6th Australian Infantry Regiment, aged 18, seen in the back row, second from the left. His friend Rupert Holden is in the back row far right. Taken at Lancefield...
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The Reluctant Soldier
Samuel Gaudie and the 5th Infantry Battalion landed at Gallipoli on day one. Gaudie remained there until he returned to Lemnos in October 1915 though the reason is not clear from the records. The...
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Australian Soldiers and Citizens of Enemy Descent
Robert Herman Herweg, enlisted in December 1914.A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the Flemington Library which was obscurely called 'Diversity in the AIF'. This title was not of my choosing, and I...
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George Fanner and the 37 Inf Battalion
This painting by Septimus Powers depicts the 3rd and 4th Australian Divisions in the Somme battlefield. Infantry, supported by horse drawn artillery and two British Mark IV male tanks, moves towards...
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