Blog archive

Reginald Victor Fusedale – 21 April 2015
A soldier’s album – 22 April 2015
A local spy story – 23 April 2015
Burning Bridges: ANZAC in hindsight, 100 years on – 25 April 2015
Hill 60 and the lost 18th: Aug. 27, 1915 – 27 August 2015
Gallipoli 2015 – 28 August 2015
An exhibtion celebrating the wonderful resources gathered by the Doing Our Bit project over the last three years – 21 September 2015
Hitler's Lost Spy: Mosman's Nazi Spy – 1 October 2015
Cobbers remembered: Mosman's dead – 19 June 2016
Cobbers remembered: Allan Allsop's 'terrible night' – 19 June 2016
Raglan St. to RFC: Bill Taylor's school days & call to the skies. – 26 June 2016
The Blood Vote: Divisions at the Front, and at Home. – 28 October 2016
The Blood Vote: Mosman votes YES, others NO. – 28 October 2016
WW1 in the Air: Gareth Morgan at Mosman Library – 1 April 2017
Black Friday, 'Bloody April': The death of Lancelot; the Red Knight rises... – 13 April 2017
Silex Road, Mosman.... – 24 April 2017
Colonel Robert Sydney Sands M.B.E., V.D. – 24 April 2017
Captain Frederick Reidy Jolley – 24 April 2017
HMAS Sydney vs. Zeppelin L43. – 4 May 2017
A light on the Hill: The Great Strike, 1917. – 31 July 2017
Capt. Taylor & 'The doomed Rumpler' – 20 August 2017
'A story of the trench' by Cpl. Reg Dargan – 3 October 2017
George Franki – 16 November 2017
'NO' again Billy – 12 December 2017
After Cocos: HMAS Sydney's progress – 21 December 2017
After Cocos: Sydney-Emden memorial unveiled! – 21 December 2017
Margaret Preston and the healing arts – 21 February 2018
Fledgling wings: Lt. Taylor inspires Gunner Allport. – 20 April 2018
Capt. Allport, MC: Air war over the Western Front – 20 April 2018
Janis’ memory, dear to us. – 3 May 2018
HMAS Sydney's flying firsts – 1 June 2018
Doing our Bit: Mosman 1914-1918 – 5 November 2018
Doing our Bit by Donna Braye – 6 November 2018
Images found: A personal retrospective. – 7 November 2018
Sid Carroll : The man in the sidecar – 9 November 2018
Charles Lawrence Pollard – 23 November 2018
Capt. J.M. Allport: 'Aerial Reconnaissance on the Western Front' – 7 January 2019
The high flying (and diving) Capt. Jack Allport. – 7 January 2019
Romance at Georges Heights Hospital – 12 February 2019
Capt. P.G. Taylor, MC; Memories & Memorabilia – 26 February 2019
'View through Norris' memorial window – 19 July 2019
Pictures at an exhibition – 20 July 2019
A day at the Hyde Park ANZAC Memorial – 12 August 2019
(HMAS) Sydney day trip – 21 November 2019
1919 England to Australia Great Air Race: The contestants – 9 December 2019
1919 Air Race. Ross Smith to HMAS Sydney: 'Very glad to see you...' – 9 December 2019
Seasons greetings. Happy and safe New Year. – 24 December 2019
Pandemic! – 6 May 2020
Margret Preston, Parisian impressions. – 23 May 2020
ADDENDUM TO THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE: MOSMAN’S DEAD IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 – 10 September 2020
Taronga Zoo opening invitation, Oct 7 1916 – 7 October 2020
The Women's Vote – 28 October 2020
2020, In Memorium – 11 November 2020
1919 Air Race: Why didn't Smithy fly the Kangaroo? – 21 November 2020
'Hospital on the Hill' photographs – 10 December 2020
Happy Summer Holidays 2020 – 18 December 2020
Are we downhearted? May Gibb's comfort cards – 17 January 2021
Summer '14-18 style: Surfing firsts with Smithy & friends – 26 January 2021
Reading about the other 'flu Pandemic – 27 April 2021
James Noel Maclean – 26 May 2021
Charles Ulm: A flying life – 3 June 2021
Local resident Norman Ellison's Southern Cross 'scoop' – 9 June 2021
Sweet Nell's memento, Smithy's lucky charm – 29 June 2021
'Right royal welcome' to Pacific fliers 'Smithy' & 'alphabet' Ulm – 30 June 2021
Cobbers remembered: A reading review – 17 July 2021
Cobbers remembered: Lost Diggers of the 53rd – 19 July 2021
They fell at Pozières – 25 July 2021
Pozieres revisited – 26 July 2021
Local resident Norman Ellison: A man behind the iron mast remembered – 27 July 2021
Books by Norman Ellison – 4 August 2021
'I’m rambling now but I enjoy doing it!': Rodney Ellison's Mosman Memories – 5 August 2021
Allport family photos on Trace & Trove – 6 August 2021
Reading Ypres-Passchendaele; Destruction witnessed, 60 remembered. – 6 August 2021
Charles Ulm: flights with Kingsford Smith and P.G. Taylor – 13 August 2021
Two books by Ian Mackersey reviewed – 20 August 2021
A new world after war: Eleanor & Eric Dark in the timeless land. – 26 August 2021
Taronga Zoo's 'New Exhibits.' – 30 August 2021
Books by Sir P.G. Taylor – 25 October 2021
Chargers who didn't come home – 31 October 2021
Ethel Turner's first editions – 5 November 2021
The fate of Emden's POWs; Mosman Holsworthy Commandant & 'The Black Hand' – 7 November 2021
A Pandemic message: Hullo! How are you? – 9 January 2022
Who killed the Red Baron?: Dr Miller's prognosis. – 21 April 2022
Borough's beginnings: Mayor Taylor's legacy – 13 September 2024
HMAS Sydney 1914: Dr Miller's paper – 23 October 2024

Memorials in Mosman

Street names with a WWI connection – 8 July 2012
Anzac Memorial Hall, Mosman – 10 July 2012
War Memorial, Mosman – 12 July 2012
H.M.A.S. "SYDNEY" Memorial Mast – 14 July 2012
Keith Anderson memorial – 23 January 2013
Sydney v Emden, a century later – 9 November 2014
Sydney's mast not destined for 'Sow and Pigs' – 24 November 2014
HMAS Sydney's mast dedication, 80 years ago today – 24 November 2014

Project updates

First post – 28 June 2012
Design & identity – 7 July 2012
A browser for Allsop's diaries – 15 September 2012
Help us transcribe this diary – 25 September 2012
A website brief that's not – 23 October 2012
Scan-a-thon appreciation – 30 November 2012
A postcard from Historypin – 19 February 2013
Coo-ee from NSW public libraries – 22 March 2013
With the colors: honour boards acquired – 28 March 2013
First World War Centenary Partnership needs you – 5 April 2013
Sydney Harbour Federation Trust looking for Drill Hall stories – 20 March 2014
Looking for John, son of Allan Allsop – 17 April 2014
Mosman Rugby Club honour roll added to the database – 24 April 2014
Our unknown soldiers – 7 November 2014
Fascinating journey in search of mother's heritage – 17 March 2016
In memory of Ken Donnellan – 13 January 2017
Mosman through the lens of WWI – 8 November 2018

Resources

Mosman's dead in the Great War – 21 July 2012
A look at original materials held by the State Library – 1 August 2012
Identities and identifiers – 9 August 2012
Getting started with Zotero – 15 August 2012
Names of service people recorded on local honour rolls – 19 August 2012
Trawling biographical databases for Doing our bit – 18 September 2012
Connecting commemoration projects – 20 September 2012
Finding your Anzacs on a map – 1 October 2012
Trove tag tip – 22 November 2012
Our Homeward Stunt – 14 May 2013
From H.36.a.1.1 to N.10.b.0.5 – 23 May 2013
Our boys have a home – 4 July 2013
The 19th Infantry Battalion AIF, 1915-1918 – 13 February 2014
Crib sheet for Mosman volunteers – 7 March 2014
The Ottoman Army 1908 to 1918: a tumultuous decade of reform – 13 May 2014
NSW deceased estate files – 6 November 2014
Tagging our bit – 27 November 2014

Semantic web

Glimpses of the future in the past – 17 July 2012

Stories

Snapshot of Mosman during World War I – 13 July 2012
REMARKABLE RESCUE: FOUR DAYS IN A SHELL HOLE – 19 July 2012
Doing their share – 19 July 2012
Lost Digger found – Sidney Hubert Carroll – 28 July 2012
A sort of living war memorial – 14 August 2012
Allan Allsop's war – 22 August 2012
The Charles Ulm story – 4 September 2012
Those brief, sliding minutes on the wharf have become sixty years – 6 September 2012
Mosman nurses at war – 10 October 2012
“This photo is of my grandfather” – 3 November 2012
The cottages on Bay Street for the limbless soldiers – 7 November 2012
Four Days in a Shell Hole: Hedley Selwyn De Quetteville Robin – 25 November 2012
Photo detectives at work – 14 December 2012
Looking for the digger with the long thumbs – 5 January 2013
Your rough cobber, Lace – 22 January 2013
A Letter of Introduction – 7 February 2013
Who would ever live in Seaforth? – 11 February 2013
Making connections: creative characters rediscovered – 20 February 2013
Frank Pursell, OBE – 26 February 2013
Second tragedy for Mosman family – 1 March 2013
Mosman men of All Saints College, Bathurst – 9 April 2013
Remembering Sister Ruby Dickinson – 10 May 2013
From Mosman to Gallipoli – 19 June 2013
“We desire to express our high appreciation” – 19 June 2013
Pusher ace: Captain Lancelot Lytton Richardson – 29 June 2013
I would not change with the ground grubs for worlds: Captain G. F. Malley M.C. – 26 October 2013
The Landing at Mosman – 11 November 2013
Lieutenant Henry Ellis of the 17th Battalion A.I.F. – 4 January 2014
Oliver Hogue aka Trooper Bluegum, 1880-1919 – 21 January 2014
Australian Red Cross celebrates its centenary – 21 January 2014
Battlefield photography – 31 January 2014
One whom the infantrymen praise as a “white man” – 21 April 2014
Mosman man, mort pour la France – 23 April 2014
Unseen photos of Mosman’s flying ace come to light – 23 April 2014
Photographs donated relating to two men listed on Mosman war memorials – 24 April 2014
AIF graffiti links Mosman to Naours – 8 July 2014
Looking for John Roy Smith – 17 September 2014
J. G. Hircoll: a soldier with a Mosman connection? – 3 November 2014
Mosman Cricket Club remembers – 7 November 2014
Miss Evans and the Anzac buffet – 2 February 2015
Letters returned unread – 2 February 2015
Audience with the Sphinx: Maj. General Bridges and the question at ANZAC cove. – 25 April 2015
The death of a gallant and erudite soldier – 19 May 2015
Remembering Major T.H. Redford, at The Nek – 9 August 2015
Hill 60 and the lost 18th: Aug. 22, 1915 – 22 August 2015
'That spirit of restlessness': Charles Jackson (Ulm) enlists – 14 September 2015
Lucky 13: Dibbs at the front – 18 January 2016
2/Ltn. Bill Taylor and the Valentine’s day mutiny, 1916. – 14 February 2016
Faces in the Crowd go to war – 22 April 2016
24 April 1916: The Easter Rising – Éirí Amach na Cásca – 24 April 2016
Cobbers remembered: Fromelles 19/06/1916 – 19 June 2016
Viewing the monkey enclosure: perspectives left and right – 7 October 2016
The Blood Vote: NO to Conscription, by a nose. – 28 October 2016
Mosman and Artists of the Great War – 2 April 2017
'Bloody April': Lt. Taylor survives – 5 April 2017
Patrick Francis Hogan – 21 September 2017
Raglan St to RFC: Bill Taylor's pilgrimage to 'the silent fields' – 26 February 2019
Where angels fear to tread: Smithy’s baptism of fire – 14 August 2021

Talks & workshops

Building the Build-a-thon – 6 August 2012
Mining Trove – 7 August 2012
Finding your First World War ANZACs – 23 September 2012
The Lost Diggers: Ross Coulthart at Mosman Library – 8 December 2012
The Cullens ‘carry on’ – 14 February 2013
Fokker fodder and castor oil: life above the trenches – 26 March 2013
Author Talk on Facebook 12/04/21 @ 10:30am – 12 April 2021