Where angels fear to tread: Smithy’s baptism of …
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Charles Kingsford Smith’s flying career was forged in the fires of adversity. In his autobiography…
Category: Stories
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Hill 60 and the lost 18th: Aug. 22, 1915
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The 18th Battalion’s recruits from the Sydney area (including Mosman) were described by official war…
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‘A story of the trench’ by Cpl. Reg Da …
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Exactly 100 years ago today Corporal Reginald Dargan had A story of the trench, published…
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Margaret Preston and the healing arts
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Shell-shocked soldiers to whom Preston taught basket-weaving at the Seale-Hayne Neurological Military Hospital, Devonshire (UK).…
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Patrick Francis Hogan
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Today (21 September 2017) is the 100th anniversary of Patrick Francis Hogan being killed in…
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Capt. Taylor & ‘The doomed Rumpler’ …
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On the 20th AUG 1917, Lt. P.G. Taylor Shot down an enemy 2-seater aircraft. 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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‘NO’ again Billy
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With recruitment falling in 1917, Hughes called for a 2nd plebiscite on conscription. This campaign…
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Taronga Zoo’s ‘New Exhibits.’
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Heading of poem (p11) and frontpage for The Australian Worker 30th of August, 1917 illustration…