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Private Stephen Fanner and the Domain Guard
Stephen Fanner was rejected for service with the AIF owing to defective eyesight, but he enlisted for Home Service with the Domain Guard, where he served for 834 days between 14 August 1916 and 22...
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Private John Dale, 58th Bn
A member of 2 Battalion writing a letter in the mud at Flesselles, November 1916 (AWM E00030)John Dale, a butcher of Maribyrnong, passed through Flesselles in November 1916 as a very bitter winter...
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Lieutenant Meara, MC, of Ascot Vale
One of many who were appalled by the casualties at Gallipoli, Michael Meara of Ascot Vale enlisted in July 1915. Within a short time he was selected for officer training, and went on to serve as a...
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Farrier-Sergeant John Quill
The Maribyrnong Remount Depot, AWM H18770Among the many branches of the army whose task it was to provide services to support the fighting men was the Remount Units who looked after the horses - the...
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Petition to the Australian War Memorial
Hello,I just signed the petition, “Australian War Memorial - Please delay impending closure of, and access to the old Site.” I think this is important. Will you sign it too?Here’s the...
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Life in Egypt, and other places, with the AIF
Unknown Album. Courtesy of the State Library of Victoria Collection.The photo above was contained on page 42 of a photograph album by a mystery photographer who took his camera with him when he...
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Gunner Youlden of the 8 FAB
Members of 14 FAB battery, Ypres Front, 28 September 1917 (AWM E00920)Gunner Frederick Henry Youlden, formerly of Bendigo but lately of Moonee Ponds, was posted to the 8th Field Artillery Brigade...
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Private John Knox Adams - missing
The Argus 25 Apr 1916 (Courtesy of KimPhillips, Spirits of Gallipoli website.)John Knox Adams of McPherson St, Essendon, was an enthusiastic AIF recruit of 22 years when he enlisted at the outbreak of...
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Private Charles Malcolm Baker
24 Tennyson St, Kensington. Reproduced with the permission of view.com.au.From this single-fronted terrace house at 24 Tennyson St, Kensington, salesman Charles Malcolm Baker, known as Malcolm, left...
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Chaplain Captain Potter
Chaplain Captain Sydney Morkham Potter, courtesy of Marjorie Morkham.Sydney Potter, a minister at the Newmarket Baptist Church first went overseas, aged 38, with the YMCA to provide comforts to...
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Lieutenant D F C Coles, 8th FAB
Officers of the 8 Field Artillery Brigade, courtesy of the State Library of South Australia, PRG 1364/1/15David Frederick Clifford Coles, a sergeant in the Royal Artillery, came to Australia in 1913 to...
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Edmond Danaher, tinsmith of Newmarket
Reconstruction of a ‘Gallipoli boat’, Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance (Rod Martin)The above reconstruction of a boat used to ferry the soldiers from troop transports to the shore of Gallipoli clearly...
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Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force Nominal Roll
Detail from cover of the nominal roll of the ANMEF to New Guinea, 1914-1918, military component. AWM AWM190 [4]Yesterday I had cause to have a look at the WW1 Nominal Roll for the AIF, but noticed...
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Gunner Eddy of the 114 Howitzer Battery
114 Battery column, drawn by mules, France, 13 October 1918. AWM E03563Munitions worker Joe Eddy joined the AIF near the 2nd anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli. The Eddy family lived in Charles...
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Tribute to Plucky RN Midshipman
View from the Promenade deck of the Galeka, off Anzac Cove, looking to Sea. In the background are other troop transports and warships. In the foreground are four of the Galeka's boats, loaded with...
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Sergeant E R Fairlie, killed at Cape Helles
An image of Ernest Fairlie in his pre-war Militia uniform,The Australasian, 17 July 1915.Of those local soldiers who survived the landing at Gallipoli, some went on to lose their lives in a wasteful...
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His Heart's Blood. Alex McArthur of Ascot Vale
Pte A J McArthur, courtesy of Kim Phillips of The Spirits of Gallipoliwebsite. Source: The Australasian, 3 July 1915, page iii.Alex McArthur grew up in Ascot Vale, running with other boys around the...
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Female Relatives Badges
Female Relatives Badge, WW1Female Relatives Badge, WW2I have known for a while that the National Archives of Australia held the Registers for these badges, but only tonight have I had another look for...
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Putting Imperial into the AIF
Griffiths family grave in Krugersdorp, South Africa, courtesy of Jena Griffiths.To underscore the imperial nature of the AIF, here is the gravestone of the Griffiths family, originally of Llanelly,...
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Sergeant George of the Railways Unit
British light rail engine, as used on the Western Front (AWM H01948)In late 1916, at the request of the British government, Australia advertised for experienced men to join a new railway...
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