After Cocos: HMAS Sydney’s progress
A new Captain After leaving SMS Emden ‘wrecked and done for’ in 1914, HMAS…
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‘NO’ again Billy
With recruitment falling in 1917, Hughes called for a 2nd plebiscite on conscription. This campaign was…
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‘A story of the trench’ by Cpl. Reg Da …
Exactly 100 years ago today Corporal Reginald Dargan had A story of the trench, published in…
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Patrick Francis Hogan
Today (21 September 2017) is the 100th anniversary of Patrick Francis Hogan being killed in action.…
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Lest we forget: How the Great War changed what we …
Lest We Forget: How the Great War changed what we wore in the face of death.…
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Captain Frederick Reidy Jolley
There is not a lot of information available on Captain Jolley He was born in Melbourne…
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Colonel Robert Sydney Sands M.B.E., V.D.
Portrait of Colonel Robert Sands (centre) and two permanent German officers captured in New Guinea, Captain…
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Silex Road, Mosman….
As always happens in Local Studies when we start researching one thing we, somehow, become distracted…
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Conscription 1916-17: the votes that split the nat …
Rally! Rally! Rally! A Mosman Library Doing Our Bit event In 1916 Prime Minister Billy Hughes…