Sweet Nell’s memento, Smithy’s lucky c …
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Nellie Stewart and Charles Kingsford Smith were the rock stars of their day. But before…
Category: Stories
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Borough’s beginnings: Mayor Taylor’s l …
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Patrick Taylor was elected to Mosman’s first council in June 1893 and elected Mayor in…
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James Noel Maclean
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WWI Enlisted 27th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF, 6 Aug 1917 aged only 16 yoa SERN…
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A Pandemic message: Hullo! How are you?
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Everything old is new again This is an excerpt from a public health poster about…
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Capt. Allport, MC: Air war over the Western Front
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Lt. Allport beside Re8. Reproduced with permission from the Australian Society of WW1 Aero Historians…
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The fate of Emden’s POWs; Mosman Holsworthy …
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Holsworthy Internment Camp, c.1915. Photograph Heinrich Jacobsen, Dubotzki Collection, Germany. Source: NSW Migration Centre ‘The…
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Chargers who didn’t come home
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Four men, Gerald Digby, Gordon Abbott, Rex Coley and Colin Bull, charged towards Beersheba. Only…
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Books by Sir P.G. Taylor
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Books by Bill Taylor include: 1935 – Pacific Flight 1937 – VH-UXX 1939 – Call…
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Pozieres revisited
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This water tower announced our arrival at Pozieres. A mother and daughter found amusement at…