Lieutenant Alan Russell Blacket. Left, circa 1916, from the “Bathurstian”. Right (holding ball), rugby captain, 1910.
Tony Cable has been researching the 34 Fallen from All Saints College, Bathurst. In this company are two men with Mosman connections, and with Tony’s permission, we have uploaded the dossiers he has compiled on each.
Australian gunners, stripped to the waist, serving a 9.2-inch heavy howitzer as it fires on Pozieres. During 1916, artillery came to be seen as the dominating factor on the battlefield. It caused more casualties than any other weapon and no advance could succeed without increasing quantities of shells. © IWM.
Mosman Library has joined the First World War Centenary Partnership led by the British Imperial War Museums, and your group might like to join too.
Two framed honour boards with 62 photographic portraits and a set of index cards with information on about 1,800 Mosman WWI servicemen were acquired last week from a researcher in Canberra.
Another good crowd filled the Mosman Room for this month’s talk, delivered by Gareth Morgan, President of the Australian Society of WWI Aero Historians.
Coo-ees in Macquarie Rd, Springwood. Source: Blue Mountains Local Studies.
A NSW Local Studies Librarian meeting at Lithgow this week heard from WWI centenary projects at Mudgee, Lithgow and Orange (Mosman got a guernsey too). The Coo-ee March from Gilgandra, first of the recruiting marches organised in New South Wales in 1915, passed through Lithgow, so it was an appropriate venue to hear what NSW libraries are doing with their communities for the Anzac centenary.