In memory of Ken Donnellan
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Recently a former and long-standing colleague, Ken Donnellan, passed away. Ken, who grew up in…
Category: Stories
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Burning Bridges: ANZAC in hindsight, 100 years on
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Charles E.W. Bean’s descriptions of events are invaluable as a primary source. He had a…
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Mosman and Artists of the Great War
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Visiting Canberra? Those with an interest in Mosman’s connections with WWI are well served by…
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They fell at Pozières
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Australian 2nd Div infantry wait to go over the top during Battle of Pozieres Densely…
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Silex Road, Mosman….
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As always happens in Local Studies when we start researching one thing we, somehow, become…
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Colonel Robert Sydney Sands M.B.E., V.D.
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Portrait of Colonel Robert Sands (centre) and two permanent German officers captured in New Guinea,…
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Captain Frederick Reidy Jolley
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There is not a lot of information available on Captain Jolley He was born in…
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Reading Ypres-Passchendaele; Destruction witnessed …
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Eyewitness to destruction Troops of the 5th Division walking along a winding duckboard, known as…
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A light on the Hill: The Great Strike, 1917.
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Screen shot from Great War (1917) film reconstructed by National Film & Sound Archive experts.…