Doing our bit, Mosman 1914-1918 -- Stories

#1450 Trooper William George Phillips WHILDON, Third Camel Bn, 12th Camel Company, Imperial Camel Corps
Phil WHILDON was killed just a few steps from the entrenched Turks at Rafa on Tuesday 9 January 1917 as ...

Aerial Reconnaissance on the Western Front
Some incidents in the service career of Capt. J.M. Allport as described to Ted Webster. Originally published in the ...

Arthur William Houstoun Lang, ANMEF, RANBT, 4th FAB
Arthur William Houstoun Lang (Bill) was born in Sydney on 1st January 1894, Sydney. He was the second of three ...

Daniel George Evans
The name D G Evans appears on the western face of the Mosman War Memorial. George Franki was unable to ...

Dear Old Winnie
Percy Wintle aged 22½ writing to his sister Winifred aged 25 who lived in Bristol UK. I was forwarded this ...

Diary pages of an unidentified soldier
Pages from a First World War diary were given to me recently by a relative of the Shipway family as ...

From Mosman to Picardy
Letters to Base Records from Akers requesting a copy of his discharge papers show that he left Mosman in 1919 ...

Gordon Carl James
The name G C James appears on the western face of the Mosman War Memorial. George Franki was unable to ...

In Brief
Donald Adolphus Cichero was known as Dolphi in the family, but used his other name as anti German sentiment built ...

Meeting Sep & his son
Harold Langford, son of Norman (N.H.) Langford, writes that his father served with Septimus Parle during WW1. "About 50 ...

My grandfather Roy McFadden
My grandfather Ronald Arthur McFadden was brother to Janet Henley. Ronald was known to all as Roy. He served with ...

Percy Hawea Harbutt
Before the war, Percy Hawea Harbutt was a building contractor in partnership with his brother Helier Harbutt, operating as Harbutt ...

Sidney Mannell from Mosman
I do not know much about any of my family who left Australia for France and Anzac Cove during the ...

Update of information on Kelvin Walter Lutge
Pte Kelvin Walter Lutge No 6528 21/1 Battalion Born: 29 Nov 1898 Moree Died: 23/7/1964 of 82 ...

Where's Oliver?
Oliver enlisted at the age of 19 years and 1 month on 14 Oct 1918, he was discharged on 31 ...

Who would ever live in Seaforth?
Extract from an email sent by me [Bev Pieremont] to Craig Tibbitts at the Australian War Memorial on 8.7 ...

William & Edward, Percy & John
William and Edward were brothers, they were born a couple of years apart in Bristol in the early 1850’s ...

WWI Action and Inaction
Nace didn't actually see any action because the war ended before the ship docked. His brother, Patrick, enlisted in ...

Your rough cobber, Lace
That’s how Gordon Lacey signs off in what his mother notes is “my darling’s last letter.” Sent from ...