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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Captain Frederick Reidy Jolley
There is not a lot of information available on Captain Jolley He was born in Melbourne…
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Reading Ypres-Passchendaele; Destruction witnessed …
Eyewitness to destruction Troops of the 5th Division walking along a winding duckboard, known as Jabber…
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A light on the Hill: The Great Strike, 1917.
Screen shot from Great War (1917) film reconstructed by National Film & Sound Archive experts. The…
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Where angels fear to tread: Smithy’s baptism of …
Charles Kingsford Smith’s flying career was forged in the fires of adversity. In his autobiography My…
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Hill 60 and the lost 18th: Aug. 22, 1915
The 18th Battalion’s recruits from the Sydney area (including Mosman) were described by official war historian…
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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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Margaret Preston and the healing arts
Shell-shocked soldiers to whom Preston taught basket-weaving at the Seale-Hayne Neurological Military Hospital, Devonshire (UK). Preston…
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Patrick Francis Hogan
Today (21 September 2017) is the 100th anniversary of Patrick Francis Hogan being killed in action.…