Friday the 13th dawned fine in Northern France in April 1917 but it was to prove an inauspicious date for one of two flying aces with a Mosman connection, Captain Lancelot Lytton Richardson.

Mosman Council made presentations to two prominent citizens and Anzacs in the years after World War One. Mosman Library has scanned these two impressive albums, and you can browse them online as digital editions.

During a recent tour of Turkey I had the opportunity to visit Gallipoli for a day – now a peaceful, picturesque peninsula. Among the wheatfields, wildflowers, native roses and bright yellow broom bush it was difficult to imagine it as a battleground, devastated by warfare as it was in 1915.

Mosman’s nursing sister Ruby Dickinson wasn’t overlooked on Anzac Day. Many thanks to Mike Rimmer who attended the Anzac ceremony at Harefield and remembered one who never returned. He also put us in touch with Rowena Scott, who kindly gave us permission to post this to the blog.

Lieutenant Alan Russell Blacket. Left, circa 1916, from the “Bathurstian”. Right (holding ball), rugby captain, 1910.

Tony Cable has been researching the 34 Fallen from All Saints College, Bathurst. In this company are two men with Mosman connections, and with Tony’s permission, we have uploaded the dossiers he has compiled on each.