A deeply damaged man
Noble Black
An office boy from Leichardt NSW, Noble Black embarked for war in 1916. He served in the Field Artillery, was badly gassed and witnessed the horrors of war. Black was one of… » read more
A lost soul
William Riley
William Riley was an orphan. His parents died of tuberculosis when he was very young. William was separated from his two sisters and they would never meet again. He was sent to… » read more
A sorrow unsaid
Brian Lyall
On 2 December 1915, Major G.F. Stevenson, Commanding Officer of the 6th Australian Battery at Gallipoli, wiped the grime from his hands and wrote a letter home to Australia. The… » read more
Attempting the impossible
Frederick Weir
Frederick Weir returned to Adelaide in 1918. He was just twenty-two when he joined the Army and most of his adult life had been spent at war. For almost four years he’d served… » read more
Her hands are never still
Charlotte Crivelli
In 1915, Madame Crivelli established the French Red Cross Society of Victoria. It was the beginning of an (unpaid) career in war work that would long outlast the war itself.… » read more
I still have the bullet in my body
James Dann
Private James Dann, a fisherman from Broome, enlisted soon after the Gallipoli Landings. He was sent to the Peninsula, wounded at Lone Pine, and sent home with a bullet in his… » read more
Never to love again
Olive Pink
Olive Pink was one of the few white women to settle in Alice Springs in the 1930s. And in that dusty frontier town she quickly became known for a series of causes. Long before it… » read more
She prefers the khaki uniform to the feminine mode of dress
Maud Butler
In December 1915, Miss Maud Butler, a waitress working in Sydney, cut her long brown hair, donned the woollen uniform of an Australian soldier, and walked down to the transport… » read more
The angel of Durban
Ethel Campbell
Ethel Campbell was born in her mother’s homeland, Scotland, but raised in her father’s home, South Africa. He was a doctor, descended from a line of wealthy sugar planters and,… » read more
The last wattle you sent
Evelyn (Tev) Davies
Evelyn (Tev) Davies arrived on the island of Lemnos just as the August Offensive began on Gallipoli. She was part of the first contingent of nurses sent to staff No. 3 Australian… » read more
