A garden of memory
Dorothy Gilbert
Within a few months of the war ending, the Mayoress of Adelaide convened a meeting in the Town Hall. Its purpose was to raise a women’s war memorial and all the principal… » read more
His country and his manhood
Charles Byrne
After the returned from war, Private Charles Byrne settled on a wheat farm in Gunnedah. Something of a larrikin, the Gallipoli veteran renamed his property ‘Bugralong’.… » read more
Never the same as before he left
Jim Soorley
Jim Soorley fought with the 34th Battalion and was badly wounded at the Battle of Messines. Hit by a shell, doctors amputated part of his arm at the Casualty Clearing Station.… » read more
That chilling phrase
Carman Brothers
Port Broughton, a tiny farming community on the Spencer Gulf, sent forty-seven of its sons to the front. Twenty-one of that number were killed overseas. Amongst them were… » read more
The hardships of war
Peter Rados
Private Peter Rados was one of the first men to enlist and one of the first to vanish on Gallipoli. His body was not recovered until long after the war. Peter Rados almost… » read more
The joke of the Battalion
Ellis Silas
Ellis Silas wasn’t cut out to be a soldier. Slight build and frail constitution, the artist from London was first rejected for service. On his third attempt to enlist, the… » read more
The mystery of the Water Diviner
Thomas Murray
In 1914 Tom Murray mounted his horse and rode to the recruiting station at Meeniyan in south-east Gippsland. By March the following year, he was in Egypt, by May he was in the… » read more
The second Count of Monte Christo
Leo Galli
To some, Galli was a patriot, an idealist, even a hero. Born in Italy, but a naturalised British subject, Galli was amongst the first to volunteer. And from the moment he put his… » read more
We were all so fond of him
Elsie Tranter
Armistice. After four years of carnage, the big guns at last fall silent. Elsie Tranter, an Australian nurse serving in a hospital near Amiens, finds a moment to scribble in her… » read more
Written out of history
William Irwin
William Irwin was the only Aboriginal soldier CEW Bean mentioned by name in his official history of the Great War. In many ways, he was an exemplary soldier and the embodiment of… » read more
