Photographs of a recent visit to Georges Heights Hospital. Here they treated men with war wounds and victims of the 1919 influenza pandemic.
There was I with the remains of a war wound, a war gratuity and a war decoration, with the wide world before me…
- Charles Kingsford Smith
The Mosman War Memorial seemed to be in lock-down like the rest of us during Covid. As you approach the Memorial now, lists of names carved gold into the smooth dark granite glitter in the sun. So who were they and what was their fate?
Recently I came across the following image. It matched a quote perfectly in the story The Blood Vote: Mosman votes YES, others NO, about how women from both sides argued their positions in the Conscription referendum of Oct 28, 1916.